Struggling to find an overview of how what the latest EAS features are? Planning your migration from Exchange 2003 and looking for a basic introduction to Database Availability Groups? These videos are for you! The Microsoft Exchange team has produced a new portfolio of videos designed to give customers a fundamental technical education on Exchange Server 2010. There are currently seven videos in the series covering the following topics: Archiving and Discovery
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Ma
he Exchange Sustained Engineering team recently made the decision to recall
the June 22, 2011 release of Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 4. This was not
an action we took lightly and we understand how disruptive this was to
customers. We would like to provide you with some details that will
give you a deeper understanding of what actually happened and, more
importantly, what improvements we are making to prevent this in the
future.
Q: What actually triggered the recall?
A:
Whi
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released an updated version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This updated release is being made available after a complete review and revalidation of the list of fixes included in the previously released version of Rollup 4 dated June 22, 2011.
The review completed by the Exchange CXP team determined that the issue identified in 'KB 2581545: The copy or move operation on a folder that contains subfolders does not w
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See 'KB 2582113: Description of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1' for more details. We want to let you know this rollup contains the Exchange 2010 SP1 version of the change described in this KB article: 2543879 PDF attachment from a Mac Mail client is n
With the release of Exchange Server 2010 SP2 later this year, we will add a new feature known as Address Book Policies. Following this addition, hosters who wish to deploy the standard on-premises configuration of Exchange and use ABP will be supported. As you may have read in a recent post over on the Exchange Partner Marketing blog, our view on whether to host Exchange using Hosting Mode or the standard on-premises configuration is changing in response to feedback we’ve had from both hoste
To Single Item Recovery είναι ένα “κρυφό” feature του Exchange 2010 που ανήκει στο Exchange 2010’s Native Data Protection concept και μας επιτρέπει προστασία mailboxes χωρίς την ανάγκη ύπαρξης κάποιου Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup. Η συγκεκριμένη δυνατότητα υπήρχε και στις προηγούμενες εκδόσεις του Exchange και ήταν γνωστό ως dumpster , στον 2010 όπως θα δούμε έχει βελτιωθεί αισθητά αποκτώντας νέες δυνατότητες και λειτουργίες. Για όσους δεν θυμούνται την λειτουργία του dumpster όταν
Στο τελευταίο autoexec event στην Θεσσαλονίκη αναφέρθηκα στην δύναμη και την ευκολία που προσφέρει το powershell στην διαχείρηση του Exchange. Επειδή ο χρόνος ήταν λίγος αποφάσισα να συνοψίσω κάποιες βασικές αλλά χρήσιμες εντολές. Ξεκινάμε λοιπόν: 1) Πως μπορούμε να δούμε τα properties του κάθε mailbox object Get-Mailbox | ForEach { $_.Name } 2) Όλα τα services που τρέχουν στον Exchange: Get-Service | where {$_.Status -eq ”Running”} 3) Τα event logs του Exchange:
Όσοι απο εσάς έχουν χρήστες που χρησιμοποιούν Blackberry και έχουν εγκατεστημένο BES θα έχουν παρατηρήσει ότι υπάρχει η επιλογή Resend Service Books. Τι είναι τα service books όμως? Service Book κατά RIM : “A service book contains information that configures how your BlackBerry smartphone interacts with the BlackBerry® Infrastructure. It also turns on specific services for your BlackBerry smartphone. The selection of service books on your BlackBerry smartphone depends upon the feature
It’s been a few months since we announced some major changes to our virtualization support statements for Exchange 2010 (see Announcing Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010). Over that time, I’ve received quite a few excellent questions about particular deployment scenarios and how the changes to our support statements might affect those deployments. Given the volume of questions, it seemed like an excellent time to post some additional information and clarification.
Στήνοντας έναν Exchange θα συναντήσετε σε κάποιο σημείο της εγκατάστασης τον όρο accepted domain. Στην περίπτωση που θέλετε ο Exchange σας να λαμβάνει μηνύματα απο τον έξω κόσμο θα πρέπει να ορίσετε μια διεύθυνση συνήθως της μορφής mail.company.gr. Μετά την εγκατάσταση θα παρατηρήσετε στην κονσόλα ότι υπάρχουν 3 τύποι απο Accepted Domains γεγονός που ίσως να μπερδέψει κάποιους. Ας τα δούμε λοιπόν αναλυτικά: Default Accepted Domain Όλα τα accepted domains ( ανεξαρτήτως τύπου ) τα βρίσκουμε
We are happy to report that the fix for the Exchange Management Console issues when IE9 is installed is now available. To be specific, we have talked about this in a previous blog post: Exchange 2007 or 2010 EMC might fail to close with "You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console" How does this fix need to be applied? In order to install the fix, a released version of IE9 needs to be installed on the machine first. Then:
MS11-081: Cumulative Sec
’Οπως όλοι γνωρίζουμε το Online defrag είναι μια διαδικασία που εκτελείται συνεχώς στον Exchange Server. Τι γίνεται όμως με το offline defrag? Πρέπει να γίνεται? και αν ναι πότε?. Το offline defrag όπως όλοι ξέρουμε γίνεται με την εντολή eseutil /d. Το θέμα είναι όπως ανέφερα παραπάνω αξίζει το downtime που απαιτείται? Το σημείο αναφοράς μας είναι το event id: 1221. Event Type: Information Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store Event Category: General Event ID: 1221 Date: 24/10/2
In early August of this year, the Windows SE team released the following Knowledge Base (KB) article and accompanying software hotfix regarding an issue in Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clusters:
KB2550886 - A transient communication failure causes a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster to stop working
This hotfix is strongly recommended for all databases availability groups that are stretched across multiple datacenters. For DAGs that are not stretched across multiple datacenters,
Over the next several months Microsoft will deploy the December 2011 Exchange Online Service Update. As a part of this update, we will also make high availability architecture enhancements in all datacenters that host Office 365 tenant domains. These updates will be staggered globally, beginning in December 2011, and we expect full deployment to complete within six months. Approximately one week before the service update is deployed to your region we will post more information in the Plan
Πολύ καλό και επεξηγηματικό άρθρο απο τον συνήθη ύποπτο Ben Appleby :
During the beta of Office 365 for Enterprises, we received great
feedback from our customers and wanted to vastly simplify the process
for configuring Exchange in a hybrid deployment with Office 365. We are
introducing the Hybrid Configuration Wizard in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 to refine the deployment process as a result of that feedback.
What is the Hybrid Configuration Wizard?
The Hybrid Configuration
1η Ιανουαρίου ώρα 16:30 : Αρχίζω να κοιτάζω τα mail μου περιμένοντας είτε ένα ευχάριστο mail είτε ένα δυσάρεστο.
16:50 : Ακόμα τίποτα...
17:30 : Δεν έχει έρθει τίποτα ακόμα... Δεν μπορεί σκέφτομαι.. πρέπει να έρθει ένα mail..
17:32 : Συνειδητοποιώ ότι έχει έρθει στα junk ένα mail...
Και όντως :
""Dear George Andritsos,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP
Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders wh
Μετά απο ενδελεχή έλεγχο της ομάδας του Exchange το συγκεκριμένο update είναι ασφαλές για εγκατάσταση και προτείνεται να εγκατασταθεί το ταχύτερο δυνατό στους Exchange Servers
Η σχετική ανακοίνωση είναι εδώ
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 to the Download Center.
This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU1. See KB 2645995: Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2' for more details.
Note: If some of the following KB articles do not work yet, please try again later.
We would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this
We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) has been enhanced to include support for configuring hybrid deployments using Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard. The first in several upcoming scenario additions for configuring hybrid deployments when using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, this new scenario is for Exchange 2003 organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises and some users hosted in the cloud by Microsoft Office
Μετά απο μήνες κάτω απο βαρύ πέπλο μυστικότητας η Microsoft αποκάλυψε την Public Beta έκδοση του Exchange 2013. Πολλές και σημαντικές αλλαγές σε όλα τα επίπεδα ενσωματώνοντας παράπονα,feedback και προτάσεις του κόσμου. Ας ξύσουμε λίγο την επιφάνεια παρουσιάζοντας κάποια βασικά πράγματα που θα αναλύσουμε περαιτέρω προχωρόντας στα ενδότερα του server. Αρχιτεκτονική Με την εμφάνιση του Exchange Server 2007 η Microsoft χώρισε τις υπηρεσίες του Exchange Server σε πολλαπλούς ρόλους κυρίως λόγω
Ήρθε λοιπόν η ώρα να ξεκινήσουμε την εγκατάσταση του Exchange 2013 . Προτού το κάνουμε όμως αυτό ας δούμε κάποια prerequites που απαιτούνται. Ο Exchange μπορεί να εγκατασταθεί στα παρακάτω λειτουργικά: Mailbox and Client Access server roles Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later Management tools Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1 Windows
This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2734323 Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3.
In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:
Note: Some of the following KB articles may not be available at the time of publishing this post.
New updates for August DST - Exchange 2007 – SP3 RU8
2701037 Store.exe crash by strcat_s() to Exchange 2007
2699574 Mic
the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 to the Download Center.
This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2706690 Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 for more details.
In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:
Note: Some of the following KB articles may not be available at the time of publishing this post.
New
Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Exchange.
Moments ago, the Exchange engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This milestone means the coding and testing phase of the project is complete and we are now focused on releasing the new Exchange via multiple distribution channels to our business customers. General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013.
We have a number of programs that provide business customers wi
