November 5, 2011 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Management, OWA, Question of the day Leave a comment

Can’t change OWA password at first logon via Threat Management Gateway?

During the first stages of delivering services of our newly built infrastructure to end-users, we came across an annoying issue. Exchange was the first to be accessed, but specifically through Outlook Web App (OWA). As the users where migrated from eDIR and GroupWise, they would get credentials from us. As a security measure we wanted to make a password change at first logon mandatory. I knew there were issues with Exchange 2010, but they were resolved with Service Pack 1.

October 28, 2009 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 3

In part 1 we’ve discussed the Exchange Mode, Domain Controllers and Schema Master compatibility. In part 2 we’ve discussed the Global Catalog and the Domain and Forest Functional level up to Windows 2008. So, that leaves us with Windows Server 2008 R2. During the time it took to write this series of blogs a lot more information was made available. Especially the Exchange Server Supportability Matrix was a huge help. Actually, the previous lack of such a page with all

September 28, 2009 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 2

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the requirements of Exchange Mode, Domain Controllers and the Schema Master in combination of various versions of Exchange. In this post I will discuss the placement of Global Catalogs (GC), the Domain Functional Level (DFL) and Forest Functional level (FFL) required. In part 3 I will discuss the compatibility of Exchange with Windows Server 2008 R2. Global Catalog The Global Catalog is a specialized option for any Domain Controller, it contains a

August 27, 2009 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 One comment

The Road to Exchange 2010: Active Directory and Exchange Part 1

*** edit: updated 28/9/2009 with corrections of some errors/typo’s and added compatibility matrices In my post The Road to Exchange 2010: Migration paths I’ve discussed about the different possible migration transition paths to Exchange Server 2010. Primarily which Exchange version can be installed on which version of Windows Server and which co-existing Exchange versions are possible. In this post I will discuss the Active Directory (AD) requirements for previous versions and the upcoming version of Exchange Server. Since Exchange 2000

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