Category: mcm
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Restricting Message Sizes in Exchange Server to Low Bandwidth Sites
Exchange Server has a series of different settings for controlling the maximum message size into and around an Exchange organization, but what about when parts of your organization have a considerably lower bandwidth than other parts, for example offices with servers in rural or hard to reach locations and require satellite WAN links or ships…
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Formatting Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo
For the last blog post for today, this one looks at formatting the output of Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo as the XML that this cmdlet returns can be quite long. For example if you want to see if your server is in backpressure then you need to view the output of the ResourceMonitor component, but as this contains…
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Assign Specific Licences in Office 365 Via PowerShell
To add specific licences to users in Office 365 without using the portal, and to assign subsets of the licences available requires two things. First you need to enumerate the licences and licence service plans, then you need to assign the new plan you have created to your users. This can be performed in…
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Adding Servers to ADFS 2.0 Farms – Subject Alternative Name Issues
When you add additional servers to an ADFS 2.0 farm and you have used a subject alternative name from your certificate to create the first server in the farm the additional servers will not be able to join the farm. If you have used the subject name on the certificate all works fine. You get the…
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Publishing ADFS Through ISA or TMG Server
To enable single sign-on in Office 365 and a variety of other applications you need to provide a federated authentication system. Microsoft’s free server software for this is currently Active Directory Federation Server 2.0 (ADFS), which is downloaded from Microsoft’s website. ADFS is installed on a server within your organisation, and a trust (utilising trusted…
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Changing ADFS 2.0 Endpoint URL for Office 365
If you are configuring single sign-on for Office 365 then you will need a server running Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). When you install this you are asked for a URL that acts as an endpoint for the ADFS service, which if you are publishing that endpoint through a firewall such as TMG…
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.DLL Errors and Blackberry Enterprise Server
During a configuration of Blackberry Enterprise Server today I found that I was getting .DLL errors when trying to create a MAPI profile on the BES Server (v5.0.2) when running IEMSTest. Well it was not the usual stuff – it ended up being the alias that had been assigned to the BESAdmin account. The policy…
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Career Factor: The reality show
Starting January 18th, check out Microsoft’s Career Factor, a real-time, online, interactive reality show. It will tell the stories of nine real individuals around the world, each working to improve their IT careers. During the next five months, each will be working toward a career goal with the help of Microsoft, its partners, and the…
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Random Chinese Characters in Exchange 2010 SP1 Emails
I have been sent a few emails from a client that start like this: 格tml> 格ead> 猼tyle㰾!– .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } –>⼼style> ⼼head> 㰊body class=’hmmessage’> The HTML characters repeat throughout the message, but not on every message, though those sent from Hotmail are typically affected (but it…
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MCM Exchange 2010 Video Previews
Updated 6th October 2013: With the removal of the MCM classes from Microsoft Learning’s provision of training and certification, I have posted this video content on my own blog at http://c7solutions.com/2013/10/the-exchange-server-header-firewall-mcm/ — Fame at last! Well not really, but here (http://blogs.technet.com/b/themasterblog/archive/2010/12/28/mcm-exchange-video-preview.aspx) is a video introducing the MCM Exchange class posted on the MCM Blog. The…