I’ve been working with some folks who are discovering the intricacies of MAPI on Exchange 2010. Since they were feeling some pain on this issue, I thought it may be worth writing about in case more folks are running into the same issue. We’re used to Outlook doing a load of things for us, and quite […]
In Exchange 2010 specifically, or even Exchange 2007/2010 mixed orgs you can easily detect which servers require MAPI encryption. The easiest would be to run Get-RPCClientAccess, which returns all Exchange 2010 servers hosting MAPI Endpoints and all encryption levels as well as if the server carries MAPI client and/or public folder responsibility. The output above […]
Very common for most orgs evaluating cloud based mail to not know where to start, or understand where the benefits are. This morning I was made aware of a free tool from Quest, called the Quest Migration Assessment Tool, or QMAT for short. It’s a browser-based application that provides guidance for evaluating Microsoft Exchange Online […]
Jetstress for Exchange 2010, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003 have been written about for a while, however, we haven’t had the official word on planning, installing and configuring Jetstress, as well as once it’s run how to accurately read and interpret Jetstress reporting data. Today a post appeared on the EHLO Blog advertising the availability […]
Installing Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 or 2008R2 is slightly different than installing on Server 2003. This includes installing Exchange 2007 SP3 on Windows 2008R2 since the pre-requisites that were taken for granted now need to be installed explicitly, especially concerning IIS. I had an annoying issue on OWA, where instead of seeing the OWA […]
Moving on from news about how great the rollups for Exchange 2007 post SP2 are, SP3 has hit the shelves with the biggest line item being that it adds support for Exchange 2007 running on Server 2008 R2. That’s not all though, while there are a number of changes I’m going to pick a few: […]
No Exchange 2007 is NOT dead – on the contrary, it’s getting better as is proved by the lasted blog post entitled Overview of Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup Installation. This post and the previous post announcing the release of the rollup made it quite clear that support for Exchange 2007 is ongoing and quite healthy! […]
Wildcard certificates used to have a stigma attached to them; however I didn’t really know where that stigma came from, except that it was considered “best practice” not to use them under certain circumstances. So I did a bit of digging – let’s start with the gold standard for Certificate Authorities (CA) – VeriSign, gold […]
This may have snuck by a whole bunch of folks, so I thought I’d write a quick post about it. First off, SP3 isn’t out yet, but it’s currently in progress. Exchange 2007 owners can expect another service pack, specifically SP3 is scheduled for release in the later half of 2010 to add support to […]
Upgrading to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 or both in a mixed org is a huge topic. You can start by reading TechNet and working your way through the various upgrade scenarios OR you could navigate to the newly released Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant. The Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant is […]