Category Archives: Microsoft

Exchange 2010 SP2 is out

Quick post for now, more later… From: Exchange Team (EHLO) Blog Post Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010/Windows 2008 R2 Hotfix for DAG/cluster issues

I’ve seen the issue that this hotfix looks to fix, a network issue causes the entire DAG to fail at at least one client. This hotfix came out in August and I hadn’t heard of it until now. Last week … Continue reading

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 6 is out

See KB2608646 for details, download here Key fixes called out on this EHLO Blog post: This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See ‘KB 2608646: Description of Update Rollup 6 for … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 RU5 install breaks OWA with Could not load type ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common.ExWebHealthModule’ from assembly

After installing RU5 OWA, ECP, EAS, EWS, and Autodiscover all stopped working and returned the following error in IE. Server Error in ‘/owa’ Application. Could not load type ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common.ExWebHealthModule’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.Exchange.Common, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’. Description: An unhandled exception occurred … Continue reading

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Installing Exchange 2010 Rollup Updates

RU5 is now out and I ran into a little snag getting it to install so wanted to post these steps. 1) Download the latest RU 2) Exit all EMS & EMC sessions 3) Disable ForeFront for Exchange with the … Continue reading

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Using Notes in Outlook and Exchange 2010 retention policies?

If your organization does, than it might run into an issue with Note items either disappearing or being moved to the archive mailbox of a user unexpectedly. In order to see these issues a few Exchange 2010 pre-requisites must be … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 updates for May

There have been several key updates in the last week for Exchange 2010 · Exchange 2010 Mailbox Calculator updated to include DAG copy distribution · Exchange 2010 SP2 announced o Address Book Policies aka GAL Segmentation o OMA (Outlook Mobile … Continue reading

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Virtualizing the Unified Messaging role is now supported on Exchange 2010 SP1

Microsoft announced today that the UM role can now be virtualized with Exchange 2010 SP1. Before today Microsoft would not support UM on Hyper-V, VMWare, or any virtualization technology. In addition to announcing this support Microsoft also released a new … Continue reading

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December Exchange 2010 updates

A few key updates from other blogs: (Just HowExchangeWorks.com right now) Exchange 2010 Tested Solutions From Microsoft… Single site, 16000 mailboxes Single site, 500 mailboxes Two sites, 9000 mailboxes Outlook 2007 SP2 Cumulative Update Brings Personal Archive & Mailbox Auto-Mapping … Continue reading

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Check out: Using Cmdlet Extension Agents to cause automatic events to occur in Exchange 2010

This post, from Pat Richard, covers how to setup pre & post PowerShell cmdlets to run when things are done in any Exchange 2010 management tool (EMC, EMS, etc). Very cool! When I worked for NetIQ in the ’90 the … Continue reading

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