One item that is very prevalent is people directly loading the Exchange PowerShell snapin into the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This is not supported from the Exchange point of view, as Exchange requires that Remote PowerShell be used with Exchange 2010 and 2013. Let’s look at how this should be done. Choosing The Correct…
Tag: Exchange 2013
Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE
In this post we will look at some of the mechanics behind creating a profile file which will customise the start-up behaviour of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This will also serve as a precursor to additional posts on tweaking ISE for Exchange purposes. The catalyst for writing this was two fold. Firstly, an administrator…
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…
Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel
The default settings in Exchange 2010 and 2013 allow any user to synchronise any device. Depending upon your organisation's viewpoint this default may not be optimal. Ideally this should have been changed when Exchange 2010 or 2013 was first deployed. Doing so would have ensured that the appropriate device rules were created and that unwanted…
Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings
It has been 5 years since Exchange 2010 was released and there is still a very common item that a lot of deployments have overlooked. This is the configuration of the ActiveSync Organization settings. These settings set the global options for devices connecting into Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2013. They are a core part…
Exchange 2013 CU7 Released
Exchange 2013 CU7 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 ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server
This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed though…
Microsoft Certified Master – 5 Years On
Time flies. It’s now been 5 years since I completed the Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master course in not so sunny Redmond. That was MCM rotation 4, which was the last Exchange 2007 rotation. If memory serves me correctly we started on the Monday the 2nd of November 2009 and finished on Saturday the 21st. …
Retrieving Cluster Error 1135 From Servers
In some of the recent posts you will have noted that there have been some issues with VMware, and also network cards dropping packets in packets received discarded. One symptom of this is that nodes will be removed from the cluster and EventID 1135 is logged into the System log. EventID 1135 states that the…
Critical Schannel Vulnerability – MS14-066
In the November 2014 security bulletin there were 14 updates released. The updates resolved security issues in IE, OLE and Schannel. It is the latter that is worth calling out for attention since this is the basis of the Microsoft implementation of SSL. Exchange makes heavy use of SSL, and is typically connected to the…