Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Today I came across a rather interesting archiving software. The software archives mails from the Exchange Server, is also compatible according to the manufacturer, but cannot handle a journal mailbox. The software has to access the users' mailboxes via POP or IMAP and requires read and write access to the users' mailboxes. The manufacturer of the software ... Read more
Overlong file paths can become a problem during migrations and backup/restore processes. A file path must not normally be longer than 260 characters. However, sometimes this limit is exceeded. This small Powershell script can be used to identify such long paths: #Directory or volume to be checked: $Directory = "D:\Shares" #PPath to CSV file for ... Read more
The following script can be used to determine all users with Active Sync devices. The data is then written to a CSV file. #Ppath to the CSV file for the export $exportfile = "c:\export.csv" #Name of a mailbox database or "all" to capture all mailbox databases $database = "all" #--------------------- "User;Type;Serial number;Status" | set-content "$exportfile" if ($database -eq "all") ... Read more
"Bring-your-own-device" has long since become the standard in many companies, perhaps even unconsciously. A correctly configured Exchange Server is very sociable and makes it easy for users to connect any number of devices. Even less experienced users can synchronize their private smartphone with the company's Exchange Server via ActiveSync. However, this is not entirely uncritical. Private ... Read more
On Steve Goodman's website there is a VM available for free download that contains an almost fully configured layer-4 load balancer based on Ubuntu and HAProxy. It is very easy to set up and is ideal for test environments. Unfortunately, load balancing only works for the ClientAccess role and not for the Hub Transport role. Maybe ... Read more
Today, for the first time in a long time, I came across an Exchange server that was configured as an open relay. I actually thought that such configuration errors were a thing of the past. Apparently, however, some people are still making this nasty mistake, so here are the default settings of the receive connectors so that the settings can be corrected. In the default setting there are ... Read more
Even though there is no smartphone with Mozilla's Firefox OS yet, I was still interested in whether the ActiveSync functionality already works. Here is the setup: First, start the email app In the mail app, select "Other email" In the following dialog, enter the user information Autodiscover did not work for me, ... Read more
Windows Server Backup can be used to back up Exchange 2013 to Windows Server 2012. Although Windows Server Backup does not replace the backup and restore software of many large providers, it can be used in test environments or very small Exchange organizations. The setup is simple. First of all, the "Windows Server Backup" feature must be ... Read more
New update rollups have been released for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007. The URs can be downloaded here: UR5v2 for Exchange 2010 SP2 UR8 for Exchange 2010 SP1 UR9 for Exchange 2007 SP3 Here is a summary of the problems that have been fixed with the UR5v2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2785908
In the Exchange 2013 preview, the CAS array could still be created using "new-clientaccessarray". In the RTM version of Exchange 2013, the CMDlet is no longer available. The reason is simple: A CAS array is no longer required. Previous Exchange Server versions used the MAPI protocol, which uses RPCoverTCP, to communicate with Outlook in the network. Unfortunately ... Read more
