Frank Zöchling

Frank Zöchling has been writing about Microsoft Exchange Server, PowerShell and Active Directory since 2011. Easy to understand HowTos and troubleshooting are the goal. Frank Zöchling is also the founder of the EUGO: Exchange User Group OWL.

Exchange 2010 OWA: Adjust time until automatic logout

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The time after a user is automatically logged out of the Outlook Web App (OWA) session can be adjusted via the registry. Since there are two different security levels (public computer or private computer), there are also 2 registry keys that can be adjusted Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSExchange OWA] "PrivateTimeout"=dword:000001e0 "PublicTimeout"=dword:0000000f If the two upper values ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Overview of the Exchange Schema Extensions

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Microsoft has published a document which describes the Exchange schema extensions to the Active Directory. The Word document (packaged in an MSI file) can be downloaded here. The document also shows that Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 makes changes to the schema. The document contains the schema changes for Exchange Server 2003, 2007 and 2010. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5401

Exchange 2010 SP1: Event 1053 in the event log (MSExchange ActiveSync)

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Error 1053 (source: MSExchange ActiveSync) is logged if an attempt is made to access a mailbox of a domain administrator via Active Sync, or if inheritance has been deactivated on the Active Directory object for other reasons. To resolve the problem, inheritance must be re-enabled for the respective user account or the correct permissions must be ... Read more

Exchange 2010 SP1: Update Rollup 6 released

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Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Rollup 6 was released today. The problems that have been fixed can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2608646/de Rollup 6 can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=9e6738ca-645d-4f97-88fe-55f18e8a7d07&displaylang=de The update is just under 32 MB in size, please also note this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2638351

Exchange 2010: Script for the basic configuration

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Anyone who frequently installs and configures Exchange Server likes to have the work done for them. I have written a Powershell script for the basic configuration of Exchange, which makes the following settings: Change the name of the mailbox database Change the path of the mailbox database Change the name of the EDB file of the mailbox database If required Change the name of the public folder database If required ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

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More and more companies now want to migrate to Exchange 2010. In my opinion, the most common case is the migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Exchange 2007 was left out by many companies. In this article I describe how Exchange 2003 is migrated to Exchange 2010. The test environment FWDC01 is a Windows Server 2003 R2, this server ... Read more