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Monday, August 30, 2010 8:10 AM

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 and Required Hotfixes

As you are probably aware, Exchange 2010 service pack 1 was released last week, on the Internet (a so-called RTW [release to web] by Microsoft) at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog . The release posting was The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:58 PM

Office 2010 Filter Pack for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

One of the prerequisites for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 is to install the "filter packs". The filter packs are responsible for "filtering" the content of Microsoft Office documents and passing those contents back to the Indexing...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:45 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #4

Public Folder Contacts Can't Replicate If you have a public folder contact that includes an e-mail address, there is also an e-mail address type field that is associated with every e-mail address. Note: You cannot see this e-mail address type field...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:16 AM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #3

The TrustedInstaller - Isn't. Generally, when applying patches (whether service packs or hotfixes or rollups), the installation process will automatically acquire all the necessary permissions - if the user executing the process CAN acquire those...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:42 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #2

Incoming e-mail CAN'T come in! This issue is not exclusive to Exchange 2010 - it also exists in Exchange 2007. The default receive connector created by the Exchange setup process does not include permissions to include "Anonymous users"...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:34 AM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #1

As I work through migrations to Exchange Server 2010 with my various clients, I'm developing a list of Exchange 2010 "gotchas". Not necessarily things that are earth-shattering, but do have the potential to be surprising to administrators...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:28 PM

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate

After a wait of almost 24 hours - the download is available. Yesterday, the Microsoft Exchange team announced the immediate availability of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate with this posting. However.... there was a complication... it wasn't...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:23 PM

msExchTargetBridgeheadServersDN and msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN Errors with Routing Group Connectors

I'm working with a client this week on migrating them from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Their Exchange 2003 environment is a weird one - a A/A/A/P/P cluster. That's right - Active/Active/Active/Passive/Passive. Whoever sold them...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:59 PM

PowerScripting PodCast on Exchange Server 2010

I was recently a guest on the "Get-PodCast PowerScripting" podcast, discussing (primarily) Exchange Server 2010. To listen to the podcast, Episode 73, MVP Michael Smith Talks Exchange . Until next time... If there are things you would like to...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:52 PM

Named Properties, What Lies Ahead...

Microsoft is preparing to make a potentially breaking change that deals with how Exchange Server 2007 handles named properties. This change is scheduled to be a part of Service Pack 2 and of Exchange Server 2010 at RTM. This change involves the promotion...
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Monday, May 04, 2009 10:17 AM

Removing the Last Exchange 2003 Server...

Microsoft has lots of guidance about removing the last Exchange 2003 server from an administrative group (see KB 822931 ) and I definitely recommend you give that a read. They also have a technet article about removing the last Exchange 2003 server from...
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Monday, January 12, 2009 8:05 AM

SBS 2003 Hardware Upgrade

In May of 2008, I wrote the article SBS 2003 Hardware Migration/Upgrade . Since then, I've been asked many times about my process for doing a SBS 2003 hardware upgrade. In general, I just have to say "I follow the steps". As I recommended...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:22 AM

I Had To Laugh...

We consultants help each other out, of course. I know Exchange and Active Directory pretty well, but put me in front of Citrix or a big T/S farm or a PKI implementation - heck, I'll scream for help without any qualms whatsoever. So, a consultant I...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:04 PM

A Rookie Mistake - Moving Mailboxes

I am embarassed. I spent over an hour today trying to figure out what I had done wrong and what the problem was. In the process of migrating a client's mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, the move-mailbox wizard was giving me an error I...
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