Posts Tagged ‘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 […]

Background: After upgrading your Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2010 SP1, you enter the following command using the Exchange Management Shell on your Exchange 2010 Server: Get-DistributionGroup And you receive the following error on several Distribution Groups: WARNING: The object DistributionListName has been corrupted, and it’s in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors happened: […]

I recently ran into the following issue while deploying Exchange 2010 for one of my customers: Background: Multi-server, multi-site Exchange environment consisting of the following: 3 Mailbox Servers Server 2008 R2 Exchange 2010 SP1 3 HUB/CAS/UM Servers Server 2008 R2 Exchange 2010 SP1 In order to install the UM Role for Exchange 2010 the following […]

I recently wrote a blog about installing Exchange 2010 SP1 and the prerequisites that must be installed on each Exchange 2010 Server before SP1 will install correctly. In that article I also mentioned that I had not experienced any issues with Exchange 2010 SP1. I now have one issue with Exchange 2010 SP1 to report. […]

I recently ran into the following scenario while deploying Exchange 2010 for one of my customers: After installing the first HUB/CAS Server in the environment, I received the following error when launching the Exchange 2010 Management Console: The following error occurred when searching for On-Premises Exchange server: Connecting to remote server failed with the following […]

I have had several customers ask me about Exchange 2010 SP1 and whether I have had any issues with the installation. In response to several such requests, I thought I’d share my experience installing Exchange 2010 SP1 in my test lab. In this article, my lab consists of a single server running the following: Server […]

We’ve recently assisted a number of clients in Exchange 2007 à 2010 upgrades. In each case, they’ve been using ISA or TMG to publish external Exchange services. For the most part, it’s been easy to find information on the subject: the MS Exchange team has a really nice write up on the ISA configurations for […]

This is just a quick heads up on the Play-on-Phone feature in Exchange 2010. I was testing several of the new UM features in my lab and one that had me scratching my head was Play-on-Phone which allows a UM user to play messages at their internal extension or any number they choose, providing the […]

Federation is certainly a welcome and interesting feature in Exchange 2010. Being able to share calendar information with other organizations will greatly improve collaboration efforts, especially with shops leveraging both on-premise and Exchange Online services for their information workers. There is a modest amount of information on this feature and how to set it up […]

One of the improved features in Exchange 2010 is multi-mailbox searching. While you could do this to a degree in Exchange 2007 it usually required too many rights to delegate it to a compliance officer and the searches had to be run from PowerShell so it was often problematic for the user to perform these […]