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Exchange 2013 Preview: Installation

After getting Exchange 2013 Preview running in my lab, I thought I’d share some of the challenges I ran into while trying to get the product installed. If any of you run into similar challenges, I hope you find this information helpful. First, I’ll discuss the prerequisite tasks. Check out this TechNet article to get […]

Creating an Exchange 2010 DAG Using a Non-Exchange Server as the FSW

I recently ran into what appeared to be an issue while creating an Exchange 2010 DAG for one of my customers. The issue arose because I wanted to create a 2-Server DAG using a non-Exchange Server as the FSW (File Share Witness). There is a well-known bug in Exchange 2010 that generates a warning when […]

Exchange 2010 – Is The Upgrade Worth The Effort?

I have written several posts providing insight into some technical challenges that I have encountered while helping my customers upgrade to Exchange 2010. Upgrading any technology within a computing environment requires time and effort, and with some of the technical challenges I’ve already documented, some of you may be wondering if upgrading your Exchange environment […]

Publish Enterprise Vault Using TMG

I have a lot of customers who have deployed Enterprise Vault within their email environments. In many cases, these customers have deployed Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 and have been using ISA Server to publish OWA and Outlook Anywhere to the Internet. These customers have then upgraded to Exchange 2010 and replaced ISA with TMG. […]

Working With Exchange 2010 Recovery Databases

Background Brien Posey has an excellent post explaining the steps required to mount a recovery database in Exchange 2010. His post can be found here. While assisting one of my customers restore email data using a recovery database, I learned some lessons that I thought I’d share. In this instance, my customer needed to restore […]

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Moves Require NetBIOS Name Resolution

During a recent Exchange 2010 Deployment, my customer was experiencing 3 different Exchange 2010 issues that were all solved with the same fix. Issue #1: Customer was unable to move mailboxes from one database to another on the same Mailbox Server or between Mailbox Servers. The following error was returned when attempting to move mailboxes: […]

Unable to Move Mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

Background I recently struggled with the inability to move mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 while helping one of my customers. The environment consisted of a Single Exchange Organization residing in a Single Forest with Multiple Domains within the Forest. The Exchange 2003 Servers and the Exchange 2010 Servers resided in the same Forest, […]

TMG HTTP to HTTPs Redirect Not Working

Nearly all organizations that have deployed any version of Exchange now recognize and understand that allowing Port 80 access from the Internet directly into any Exchange Server is not exceptionally secure, and is therefore not desirable. I personally will not deploy Exchange for any of my customers unless they publish Exchange to the Internet using […]

Is It Possible to Disable AutoDiscover?

Background When I help my customers upgrade their Exchange environments from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, a key element that I focus on is end user impact. If the upgrade is executed correctly, most end users should never know that an upgrade occurred. In fact, in most instances, the only difference end users will notice […]

Working With Exchange 2010 Recovery Databases

Background Brien Posey has an excellent post explaining the steps required to mount a recovery database in Exchange 2010. His post can be found here. While assisting one of my customers restore email data using a recovery database, I learned some lessons that I thought I’d share. In this instance, my customer needed to restore […]

Importing PST Files Using PowerShell in Exchange 2010 SP1 Overwrites Folder Permissions

Background Jaap Wesselius has an excellent post explaining how to use PowerShell to import and export PST files using the new functionality built into Exchange 2010 SP1. Jaap’s post can be found here: http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/exchange/importing-psts-with-powershell-in-exchange-2010-sp1/. While testing this functionality for one of my customers, I discovered that importing a PST file into the root of a […]

Do I Need to Upgrade Distribution Groups When Upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010?

Background: After adding Exchange 2010 SP1 Servers to an Exchange 2003 environment, I noticed some strange behavior when using the Exchange Management Console to review and modify Distribution Groups. Specifically, I noticed that the settings on the Membership Approval tab of all Distribution Groups were grayed out as in the following example: In order to […]

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