Essential Exchange

Most companies have a set of primary Internet domains (Exchange accepted domains) that they use to assign to users. However, a constant is that most companies also assign a secondary email address that has a domain which is identical for all of their users. That is true in my environment, and in that of all customers I have worked with in the ...

This is an update of my post Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get-ExchangeServer, from April 25, 2012. Since then, Exchange 2013 has been released! I've had several requests from people who are not PowerShell scripters to update that function. So here it is. I have repeated the text from the prior below. If you write lots of ...

Every major Exchange release comes with updates to the Active Directory schema. In this case, "major release" means new major version (at RTM), every service pack, and (probably) every Cumulative Update with the new servicing model introduced for Exchange 2013. Each update is unique to that particular release and, in general, they are ...

One of the features added to PowerShell v2 (and of course continued with PowerShell v3) is splatting. Without going into extreme detail (there are plenty of other blogs and books that do that), splatting allows you to pass parameters to a PowerShell cmdlet via an associative array (that is a fancy name for a hash table). The hash table ...

Exchange Server 2013 reached RTM a couple of months ago and has since reached General Availability (GA). In my personal opinion, Exchange 2013 RTM is not ready for prime time. Microsoft made a decision to release all of Wave 15 (Office desktop applications and servers) at the same time; as well as release Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server ...

In the last few days, Windows Management Framework 3.0 (WMF 3.0) has begun appearing in Microsoft Update (MU), Windows Update (WU), Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), and on Configuration Manager Software Update Points. This basically means that Microsoft is now suggesting that WMF 3.0 be installed on all of your servers where the update is ...

Wave 15 of Office products reached the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) stage today, October 11, 2012 (10/11/12 - heh). These products include Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, and Microsoft Office 2013. Note that RTM, also known as "code-complete", means that development is done on the products and they ...

Today Microsoft released Security Advisory 2749655, Compatibility Issues Affecting Signed Microsoft Binaries. I encourage you to read the security advisory. We also saw that Exchange team post the following blog entry Re-released Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 update rollups. Microsoft re-released the rollups in order to ensure that third party ...

Well, in case you haven’t seen it, an Exchange Security advisory was released today. “Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Parsing Could Allow Remote Code Execution” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2737111 And yes, it also affects the Exchange 2013 Preview. It wasn’t immediately ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the public betas of all the Wave 15 products, including Office, Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, etc. were released earlier this week as "2013" products. These were all released on Monday July 16, 2012. This follows by a couple of weeks the "release previews" of ...