This is a post for reference purposes. The intent is to look at how Outlook will locate the correct Autodiscover endpoint in a hybrid environment. This Exchange 2010 SP3 lab has a hybrid configuration with Office 365. The tenant is called TailspinToysCanada. Our test mailbox User-1@tailspintoys.ca was moved successfully to Office 365. They are logging…
Year: 2015
How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013
This is in response to a engagement where the admins were puzzled that they could not create a public folder calendar in Exchange 2013. That is something that we should be able to do. Why were they not able to do so? To creating the public folder calendar, we need to use Outlook. This is…
AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust
In the Tailspintoys environment, the administrator (moi) was a bit slack. They let the AD FS 2012 R2 proxy get into a bad state. The AD FS Proxy was not contacting the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short lived authentication certificate to expire. At this point the AD FS…
Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided
On an Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 server, experienced an issue where the path statement on the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet seemed to ignore what it was told to do…. The below PowerShell commands were used: $Creds = Get-Credential Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path .\cert.pfx -Password $Creds.Password Which generated an error stating “Import-ExchangeCertificate : The import file name .\cert.pfx was not…
End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support
We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase. Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released….. At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported. Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build. Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known…
Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values
This post is to answer one of the many interesting questions that seem to pop up doing Exchange work! This is for one of my favourite customers in Winnipeg. Next time, let’s arrange the work for summertime so we can go golfing Tyler, eh? For some added nostalgia, let’s use Exchange 2007 as the example…
Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA
The Exchange team have been working very hard to develop the feature set of modern public folders. Exchange 2013 CU8 added multiple scale increases. In addition, CU8 also added a feature to allow viewing modern public folders in Exchange 2013 OWA. Calendar and Contact Modern Public Folders favourites added in Outlook are now accessible in…
Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script
One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens. This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet. It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers. It takes some of…
Unable To Run Downloaded PowerShell Script
After finding a killer PowerShell script on the interwebs, you download it and then the excitement dies when you get a lovely PSSecurityException error like the example below: File C:\Scripts\Script.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:\Scripts\Script.ps1 is not digitally signed.You cannot run this script on the current system. For more information about running scripts and…
Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations
This article is intended to cover some of the best practices related to Exchange 2010 search. Whilst the search service has been continuously improved over the lifecycle of Exchange 2010 there are multiple items can need to be addressed. If these items are not addressed, then there is a very good chance that you will…