Public Folders and the DAG

Reading Time: 3 minutes When realizing a High Available Exchange 2010 environment, you automatically going to use DAG (Database Availabilty Groups). It is a different approach with previous versions of Exchange, who leverage server redundancy. DAG supplies us with mailbox database redundancy. When using a DAG the single point of entry for your clients and for all protocols (including MAPI RPC), is the Client Access Array (or CAS Array). Essentially a DNS record pointing to a Load Balancer. A Hardware Load Balancer (HLB) is

October 18, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Management Leave a comment

Centrally administered Calendar sharing in Exchange 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes it is needed to fully provision a mailbox with all the correct settings and permissions the user needs. For instance, it can be necessary to share your calendar with everyone in your department and vice versa. Normally you would be dependent on everyone to share their calendar. Quite troublesome This issue can be easily addressed by using the *-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlets within Exchange 2010. Using Get-MailboxFolderPermission you can view the various permissions already set on folders within a mailbox. For

October 14, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Office Leave a comment

Outlook 2010 Standard does not support Personal Archive

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week a colleague of mine asked me whether Office 2010 Standard supports the Personal Archiving functionality of Exchange 2010. I assumed it did, but he provided me with some Microsoft information that stated otherwise. At minimum the Professional Edition is needed. I couldn't find any other piece of collaborating evidence or just confusing information (looks like Marketing is confused between Personal Archive and Managed Folders), so I put it to the test. Downloaded Office 2010 Standard, installed Outlook 2010

March 16, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

Mail enabled Public Folder Recipient not found

Reading Time: 3 minutes Edit 6th may 2010: Similar issue with same solution is confirmed and will be patched by Microsoft. See here. Recently I transitioned an Exchange 2003 Server to Exchange 2010. For the client redirection, I mostly wait two week before decommissioning the old Exchange server. Mailboxes, mail flow, remote access and the default Public Folder are all transitioned to the new server. So, in the event of a failure of the old server, the organization would not notice it. Eventually most

February 17, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

Mailbox Replication Service unexpectedly quits when moving mailboxes from other Exchange server

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve just completed a transition from Exchange 2003 directly to Exchange 2010. This is a supported scenario, but I did ran into some trouble. Luckily, I also have a solution. Scenario The installation of the Exchange 2010 server and upgrading of several items of the Exchange 2003 environment went without any hick-ups. The project was actually ahead of schedule and just when you think you could go home early… Exchange 2010 now calls a mailbox move “Local Move Request”. The

February 17, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

Integrated Authentication with Firefox and Exchange 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the Exchange 2010 Outlook Web App or OWA, it is possible to use Firefox to access your mailbox. Yes, this was always possible but the premium features were only available for Internet Explorer users. As of now, I could only detect one small difference between Firefox and IE namely the S/MIME functionality. Most users or even admins probably don’t know that it exists as it not often implemented. I am a frequent user of Firefox and prefer it above

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

Reading Time: 4 minutes 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

October 9, 2009 Dave Stork Exchange 2010 Leave a comment

Exchange 2010 Code complete!!!

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I was at the Technet Live event in The Hague (Netherlands). I understand they wanted to make an announcement on the availability of Exchange 2010, but instead advised to keep monitoring the EHLO blog of the Microsoft Exchange team the following day. But on my travel home I already received a blog update: Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability There will be more information on TechEd Berlin, but unfortunatly I will not be

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

Reading Time: 5 minutes 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

Reading Time: 5 minutes *** 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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