Exchange 2007/2010/2013: Set up Blackberry 10 for ActiveSync

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To complete the setup of the Active Sync Clients, here are the instructions for the current Blackberry OS 10. The instructions for the other smartphone operating systems can be found here: Windows Phone 8: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=1232 Android 4: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=621 iOS, Android 2.X, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=302 But now for the setup: Select "Settings" on the start screen Then ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Extremely fast log file growth (2)

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And once again extremely fast log file growth in the Exchange environment. I had this problem once before, when it was iPhones with the iOS bug. This time, however, there were no affected iPhones to be found. Exchange 2010: Extremely fast log file growth (from the life of an admin) In this case, the Exchange User Monitor helped me, it was possible to ... Read more

Exchange 2010/2013: Automatic out-of-office note

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Users often forget to maintain their out-of-office note in Outlook when they are on vacation, for example. A possible solution would be to automatically enter the out-of-office note if a central calendar is maintained that users invite when they are on vacation. I have created a small script for this purpose, which queries a calendar via EWS and automatically ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Impersonation does not work (HTTP 500)

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A somewhat tougher nut to crack, apparently the impersonation feature suddenly stopped working for some users. A UC software was no longer able to retrieve the contacts from the user's mailbox. Unfortunately, the software returned an error message like this: "Does not work" There were also no entries in the event logs on the Exchange server and ... Read more

Exchange 2013 CU2 published

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The CU2 for Exchange 2013 RTM was released today. It can be downloaded here: Installation instructions and a list of changes can be found on the Exchange Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/07/09/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-2.aspx A schema update is also required. As usual, the CU2 is the complete Exchange package, so almost 1.4 GB must be downloaded.

Exchange Migration: Split mailboxes alphabetically across databases

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When migrating from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013, it makes sense to distribute the mailboxes alphabetically to the new Exchange 2013 databases. I have therefore created a script that divides all mailboxes of a source database into the target databases according to the first letter of the name: param ( [string]$Database , [string]$Defaultdatabase , [bool]$CreateMoveRequest ) write-host " Process ... Read more

Exchange 2013: MAPI/CDO available

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There is now also a MAPI/CDO for Exchange 2013, which can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39045 A description of how profiles can be created can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2013/05/21/how-to-mfcmapi-create-mapi-profile-exchange-2013.aspx And here is also a howto on how Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 can be addressed, which is particularly helpful during migrations: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2013/05/27/omniprof.aspx

Exchange 2013: Server error in the /ECP application (Event ID 1003)

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Yesterday I issued a certificate for my new Exchange 2013 server, yesterday everything worked fine. Then today this error message when I tried to start the ECP: And the event log is also completely red with the event 1003: [Ecp] An internal server error occurred. The unhandled exception was: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Invalid provider type specified ... Read more