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Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 SP3 Released

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the release of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3.

This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU5. See KB 2608656: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3′ for more details.

We would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

DST Cadence Release for Dec 2011 – Exchange 2007

22656040 An Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server may respond slowly or stop responding when users try to synchronize the Exchange ActiveSync devices with their mailboxes

2498852 ”0×80041606″ error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

22653334 The reseed process is unsuccessful on the SCR passive node when the circular logging feature is enabled in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

22617784 Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2289607 The week numbers displayed in OWA do not match the week numbers displayed in Outlook for English users and French users in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

Update Rollup 6 can be downloaded here.

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Google Discontinues Message Continuity

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:29:55 +0000

Google has announced that they are discontinuing Google Message Continuity.

Google Message Continuity (Source: http://www.google.com/postini/continuity.html)

Originally launched as a disaster recovery and business continuity solution for Microsoft Exchange customers it received a lukewarm reception from Exchange admins, and according to a Google blog post did not see significant uptake.

In December 2010 we launched an email disaster recovery product for enterprise customers that use Google’s cloud to back up emails originally sent or received in an on-premise, Microsoft Exchange system. In the time since we launched, we’ve seen hundreds of businesses sign up for it. By comparison, in that same time, we’ve seen millions of businesses move entirely to the cloud with Google Apps, benefitting from disaster recovery capabilities built directly into Apps. Going forward we’ve decided to focus our efforts on Google Apps and end support for GMC.

Exchange 2010 Boot Camp Update

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:32:12 +0000

I wanted to give you an update on how things are going with the Exchange 2010 Boot Camp. Since I last mentioned it here I’ve been overwhelmed by the response. At last count 831 people from all over the world have registered their interest in this online training. To me that is just amazing.

So, here are a few new bits of information about the Exchange 2010 Boot Camp.

I’m going to open up registrations on Thursday 26th at 10:00am AEST (that’s GMT+10:00). An email will be sent out to everyone who registered their interest.
The first set of registrations will be limited to 50 people. Don’t panic if you don’t get in the first time, I’m just limiting it in case of any technical issues with the website or other bits and pieces involved.
If all goes well for a few days I will open up registrations again and send another email to let you know.

In the mean time I’ve created this quick video to show you what the site looks like right now, so you know what to expect.

If you still haven’t registered you can head over to the Exchange 2010 Boot Camp site now and join the waiting list.

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Register Your Interest for the Exchange 2010 Boot Camp

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:35 +0000

Update: over 700 people have now registered their interest. If you’d like to skip the back story and register as well just scroll down and fill in the email signup form below.

Earlier today I tweeted a brief message to see if anybody was interested in an Exchange 2010 online training course that I’m calling the Exchange 2010 Boot Camp.

There was a very strong response with a lot of people immediately expressing their interest.

So I’ve already begun making preparations to create the training, but I need to know a little bit more about the people who are interested in attending so that I can design the right lessons for you. Even if you are a complete beginner I want to try and deliver training that will be useful for you.

The Exchange 2010 Boot Camp will be:

free to attend
delivered 100% online, so you can do the lessons from anywhere in the world at the times that suit you
delivered using videos/webinars, written lessons, and forums for interaction such as Q&A

If that sounds interesting to you and you’d like to know more please enter your email address in the form below to register your interest. You’ll be sent a brief survey to help me understand your training needs, as well as announcements when the boot camp is ready to start.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments below or get in touch with me using the contact form.

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Happy Holidays from Exchange Server Pro

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:34:29 +0000

2011 is coming to an end, and Exchange Server Pro will be going quiet for a few weeks while I take a break to enjoy the holidays. I will still be watching for questions in the comments or forums, but won’t be posting new articles until January.

I hope you’ve gotten value from Exchange Server Pro this year, and I look forward to delivering even more useful content in 2012. Thank you to everyone who emailed, commented or tweeted your feedback to me throughout the year.

I also wish you all a safe and happy holiday.

See you next year!

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Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:35:48 +0000

Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010 for download by customers.

This major update to Exchange 2010 includes the following enhancements.

Hybrid Configuration Wizard - provides customers with a streamlined process to configure a hybrid deployment between on-premises and Office 365 Exchange organizations.
Address Book Policies - determines the global address list (GAL), offline address book (OAB), room list, and address lists that are visible to the mailbox user that is assigned the policy. Address book policies provide a simpler mechanism to accomplish GAL separation for the on-premises organization that needs to run disparate GALs.
Cross-Site Silent Redirection for Outlook Web App - enables a silent redirection when a Client Access server receives a client request that is better serviced by a Client Access server located in another Active Directory site.
Mini Version of Outlook Web App - a lightweight browser-based client, similar to the Outlook Mobile Access client in Exchange 2003.
Mailbox Replication Service - parameters have been added to the New-WebServicesVirtualDirectory and Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory cmdlets so that you don’t have to perform the manual configuration: MRSProxyEnabled and MaxMRSProxyConnections.
Mailbox Auto-Mapping - administrators can turn off the auto-mapping feature by setting the value of the new Automapping parameter to $false on the Add-MailboxPermission cmdlets.
Multi-Valued Custom Attributes - introduces five new multi-value custom attributes that you can use to store additional information for mail recipient objects.
Litigation Hold - you can’t disable or remove a mailbox that has been placed on litigation hold.

Webinar Invitation: Upgrading to Exchange Server 2010

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:10:08 +0000

This week I will be hosting free webinars on the topic of Upgrading to Exchange Server 2010.

This is an introduction to upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 including:

Critical planning considerations
Deployment of Exchange Server 2010 into existing organizations
Establishing co-existence
Performing the migration of services and data
Decommission of legacy servers.

The presentation goes for about 1 hour including some Q&A time.

There are two session times to so that as many people in different time zones can attend as possible, up to 100 attendees per session (a limit of the webinar software I am using this time).

Here are the session details and links to the registration pages.

Session 1 – Thursday December 8, 11:30am to 12:30pm AEST (GMT+10)

Session 2 Thursday December 8, 10:30am to 11:30am PST (GMT -8)

I look forward to seeing you there.

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Microsoft Releases Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:32:03 +0000

On October 28th Microsoft announced the availability of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

From the Microsoft Exchange Team blog:

This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues since the release of RU5. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

2627769 Some time zones in OWA are not synchronized with Windows in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

2528854 The Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service crashes on a computer that has Exchange Server 2010 SP1 installed

2544246 You receive a NRN of a meeting request 120 days later after the recipient accepted the request in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

2616127 “0×80041606″ error code when you use Outlook in online mode to search for a keyword against a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment.

2549183 “There are no objects to select” message when you try to use the EMC to specify a server to connect to in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 4

The standard order of deployment for Exchange Server updates applies.

Client Access servers, starting with the internet-facing ones. See this article for how to patch a CAS array.
Hub Transport and Edge Transport servers
Mailbox servers. See this article for how to patch a Database Availability Group.
Unified Messaging servers

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Win a Free PowerGUI Pro License

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:54:57 +0000

Thanks to the folks at Quest Software I have one free license of PowerGUI Pro to give away.

I’ve tried a few different PowerShell editors and PowerGUI is the one I now use on a daily basis. From the PowerGUI website:

PowerGUI® Pro is graphical PowerShell administration console with an integrated editor and debugger. PowerGUI Pro has all the same great features from our freeware PowerGUI, plus it enables use of PowerShell from mobile devices and protects your scripts with integrated version control.

To be in the running to win this great prize all you have to do is write a PowerShell script to meet one (or more if you like) of the scripting challenges posted in the Exchange Server Pro forums.

There are three challenges:

Top 12 Mailbox Size Report
Exchange Backups Check
Mailbox Statistics Report

You can read the full details here.

The contest runs until midnight on Saturday 13th November (Australian EST) to allow plenty of time to create good quality scripts.

Best of luck!

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Win Exchange Server 2010 Training from Train Signal

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:32:09 +0000

How would you like to win one of two Exchange Server 2010 MCITP DVD training packages courtesy of Train Signal?

To celebrate the launch of the Exchange Server Pro forums Train Signal has generously provided two copies of their Exchange Server 2010 MCITP DVD training as prizes, valued at $594 USD each.

Each training package contains:

Both the 70-662 and 70-663 exam training
Online streaming access to the training materials
Physical DVD media with the videos, audio, and PDF lessons
Transcender practice exams

To be eligible to win all you need to do is:

Join the Exchange Server Pro forums
Read this forum thread for the next steps

This contest closes at midnight on Saturday 22nd October 2011, AEST (GMT+10) and two winners will be drawn at random from the eligible entries.

Win a Free PowerGUI Pro License

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