In several recent engagements, there has been some interesting discussions about how to configure the CAS namespaces for the Exchange Web Services virtual directory. Specifically this was around the configuration of the InternalNLBBypassUrl in Exchange 2013 and 2016. Since this was set on Exchange 2007/2010 servers, there seems to be a desire to change it…
Tag: Exchange 2013
Exchange 2013 CU13 Released
Exchange 2013 CU13 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…
Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset
This is a quick tactical script to help Exchange administrators when resetting Exchange Monitoring mailboxes. Exchange 2013 introduced managed availability which is responsible for evaluating the health of Exchange 2013 and 2016 Exchange servers. Yes it does also probe downlevel servers, but let’s not get bogged down in that in this post. In order to…
Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory
This is a tale of when a “quick” review of CAS namespaces quickly went off at a tangent. When working with the messaging administrator, let’s call him “Mike” to protect the innocent, he showed me the below for his Exchange 2013 server. He was quite happy with the config, but that bubble was about to…
Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 is available, and it is now supported to install Exchange 2016 onto this version of Windows. Initially this was not the case. Exchange 2016 CU3 added support to install Exchange 2016 onto Windows Server 2016. However, there was an issue with Windows which required based installations to be paused. The required fix…
Assigning Exchange 2016 and 2013 Certificate To Multiple Servers At The Same Time
In Exchange 2010, the Exchange Management Console allowed us to import certificates to multiple servers and to then assign the certificate to multiple servers simultaneously. In the Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 EAC, the option to enable the certificate for Exchange services is per server. As you can seen in the Exchange 2016 example below,…
Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016
Last week I was in Ottawa to review the process of upgrading to Exchange 2013. Since the focus was upgrading from Exchange 2007, that required blowing the cobwebs off some long term storage brain cells! Note that Exchange 2007 now has less than a year of extended support left, and if you have not started…
Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks
Just like the Exchange 2010 version of this post, the intent of this blog post is to be a throwdown of common issues that can arise when deploying Exchange 2013. Issues are not listed in order of significance/priority. Think of this more as a smorgasbord… Exchange 2013 Servicing Changes Be aware that Exchange 2013 is…
Exchange 2013 CU12 Released
Exchange 2013 CU12 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 Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile
Some of my lab servers run in Microsoft Azure with no redundancy. This is because they are only a lab, and I want to minimise the monthly billing costs for these environments. When the servers are restarted due to patching or maintenance activities, there can be a little fallout. In the case below, some Exchange…