February 22, 2012 – 10:51 am
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, [...]
January 17, 2012 – 12:34 pm
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 [...]
August 26, 2011 – 12:02 pm
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: [...]
January 4, 2011 – 10:42 am
Today I thought I would do a quick run through of the basic features of the administrative interface for Archive Manager from Quest Software. Archive Manager is an email archiving platform which is quick to implement and generally once up and running requires minimal maintenance. Archive Manager is developed around standard Microsoft Technologies such as [...]
December 7, 2010 – 11:40 am
I thought I would take a better look at the new Exchange 2010 feature, the personal Archive which is effectively a second mailbox for a user. The personal Archive was introduced to Exchange server to give administrators an option for dealing with .pst files which traditionally have the following problems: Access to .pst files sitting [...]
October 11, 2010 – 7:53 am
While working on a migration involving Exchange Server 2003 recently we encountered an interesting bug with the SMTP connectors in Exchange Server 2003 which is not publicly documented by Microsoft. The diagram below demonstrates the configuration in Exchange Server 2003 that we were using The configuration that we had in place was where the Exchange [...]
October 11, 2010 – 7:39 am
One of our clients recently had a requirement to migrate a subset of mailboxes from another company that had gone into administration. From the point of engagement we had few days to complete the design work and then from the point of start of implementation less than one month to build new servers into the [...]
Today I am going to have a look at what is involved in installing Blackberry Express Server 5.0 with Exchange Server 2010. What is Blackberry Express Server Blackberry Express Server is supported to be installed directly on an Exchange 2003 SP2, 2007 SP1 or 2010 RU1 server in order to support up to 75 Blackberry [...]
February 23, 2010 – 7:44 pm
It has been a while since I have posted so here goes for the first post of 2010. PowerShell v2 has brought with it the ability to connect from remote machines as PowerShell is made available via an IIS published URL. This allows support engineers to connect to PowerShell over the internet and administer servers [...]
In my previous post on this topic I discussed at a high level how the Inter-Organizational Replication tool works to synchronize Free/Busy information between Exchange Organizations and then discussed some of the problems that could occur at a later date if a migration was then attempted to consolidate the Exchange Organizations. In this post I [...]
