Author Archives: Tim Eichmann

Office 365 & Exchange Federation Errors

Federation & Certificates, a love / hate relationship.  Hi everyone, thought I’d post a few troubleshooting tips on Office 365 setup. Learnings from the frontline on deploying Office 365 have shown up a number of problems around the vital step of setting up Exchange Federation Services. This is either something that goes in first time, [...]

Exchange 2010 SP2 and Office 365. What works and what to look out for.

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 was released in Dec 2011 along with a few updates to the Microsoft Office 365 cloud service. This article contains a few points on whats new, what works better, and what to look out for if you are upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP2 and you are already connected to Office [...]

Performance Counter Problems Exchange 2010 SP1 RU3

Recently I had some unusual issues on a client site. We had an admin server that was running just the Exchange Management tools (EMC, EMS). Post installation of Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 3 we started getting performance counter errors in the event logs, about 15 errors at random points during the day.  Exchange 2010 Source: [...]