Patch Tuesday this week heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 14 (RU14) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU14 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains a security fix to address the issue in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-079, in addition to the previous fixes in…
Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported
It is always interesting to see how certain constructs are carried over from previous versions of Exchange without being re-evaluated. The case in point here, is how access is provided to Exchange 2010/2013 PowerShell. Exchange 2010 introduced mail admins to remote PowerShell. At this time we should all be using remote PowerShell for Exchange 2010…
Install Desktop Experience On Windows Server 2012
While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of the servers. This met with some muttering and cursing from the nearby fabric covered box as the option to install the Desktop Experience feature is not as…
Enable Remote Archive With Exchange Hybrid
Deploying an Exchange Hybrid solution offers many opportunities to extend messaging services into the cloud. This is one of the biggest strengths of the Microsoft offering. We can provide on-premises, cloud only and hybrid solutions. One capability is cloud based archives. This allows either: On-premises mailbox with an archive in Office 365 Office 365 mailbox…
Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones–Exchange 2013 Redux
In a previous Exchange 2010 post we discussed a scenario where users were delegated the capability to create Mail Enabled Contacts in Active Directory using a custom Role Based Access Control (RBAC) role. As part of the solution, we enabled the MyDistributionGroups Role. While this may meet the needs of most organisations, it does introduce…
Exchange 2013 CU16 Released
Exchange 2013 CU16 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to…
Exchange 2013 CU20 Released
Exchange 2013 CU20 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to…
Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support
After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following: Does Exchange Support Hyper-V Replica? Does Hyper-V Support Exchange? How Do I use Exchange and Hyper-V Replica? What Is Hyper-V Replica For some background reading on Hyper-V…
Registry Editor Favourites – Who Knew?
When I was in Seattle for some internal training in January, one of the chaps delivering a demo used a feature that I wish I’d known about previously. When he was demonstrating some of the update mechanics for Office Pro Plus he immediately skipped to the correct portion of the registry by using a shortcut…
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU17 Released
March 21st heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 17 (RU17) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU17 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. All updates are delivered via a RU for Exchange 2010 and 2007. Exchange 2013 and 2016 have a different release model, where security updates…