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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Exchange Server’
Determining the best way to create shared mailboxes in Office 365, when performing a migration from Lotus Notes or GroupWise
While planning your migration to Office 365, you have a couple options when provisioning Shared Mailboxes in Office 365.Microsoft does not charge you to create Shared Mailboxes in Office 365, if you do it right.Here are your options to create Shared mailboxes. Typically, when planning a migration from a Lotus Notes or GroupWise messaging system, […]
Exchange 2010 UM and Cisco: What to do about G729?
Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging is a great voicemail solution, especially for anyone with SIP-compliant PBX like Cisco or Avaya. At PointBridge we’ve had good success migrating people off Cisco Unity in particular. In fact, we recently migrated a 2000-user customer from Unity to Exchange UM, cutting everyone over in a single night. The project was […]
Speed up Development with Exchange Web Services Managed API
We’ve all experienced it before, those “Wow, I can’t believe it’s that easy” moments. Exchange Web Services Managed API makes sending emails, creating appointments, querying folders/calendars, and generating meeting requests extremely simple.When it comes to programmatically duplicating Outlook functionality (given Exchange is running the show), the Exchange Web Services Managed API is definitely worth looking […]
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 […]
Using Custom Managed Folders in Exchange 2010 SP1
As many people may already know Managed Folders in Exchange 2010 SP1 have been removed from the GUI and now need to be managed via PowerShell, as stated here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998911.aspx. While they are still supported, the process to create them and assign a Managed Folder Policy is a little confusing, which I found out testing […]
Incorrectly Configured Static Address when creating a DAG
On a recent Microsoft Exchange Installation for one of my customers, I encountered the following error message when trying to setup a Database Availability Group in Exchange 2010 SP1: WriteError! Exception = Microsoft.Exchange.Cluster.Replay.DagTaskOperationFailedException: A server-side database availability group administrative operation failed. Error: The operation failed. CreateCluster errors may result from incorrectly configured static addresses. Error: […]
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 UM: Advanced Customization of User Greetings
Most people know that Exchange 2010 gives you the ability to configure different rules based on caller ID (e.g. when my wife calls, play a certain greeting with different options to reach me). But the rules engine is actually even more flexible than that; it can actually be used to mimic functionality in other voicemail […]
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 […]
Corrupt or Inconsistent Distribution Groups After Upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1
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: […]
Unable to Install Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging Role
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 […]