Tag: Exchange 2010
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Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 was released today, read more here. Exchange 2010 SP3 was also released today, read more here. Both of these updates bring us one step closer to coexistence with Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 CU1 will be the final piece this puzzle, and should be released before the end of Q1. Josh BryantCybersecurity…
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Apple has done it again. Yet another iOS release is causing major issues when a device (iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc) running it connects to Exchange via ActiveSync. Microsoft and Apple are working together to resolve this issue. In the past this has usually resulted in Apple releasing a patch for iOS to resolve the issue. …
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Today I had my 1st "Phone Advisory" with a large customer wanting some guidance on upgrading to Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010. It was an excellent discussion, and even though SP2 has been out for about 6 months now, there are still many organizations of all sizes that haven't installed it yet. If you…
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Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 was released today. You can download it here. Josh BryantCybersecurity Product Leader and internationally recognized Speaker at several Information Security conferences and events with over 26 years of experience as a proven leader in Cybersecurity, Product Management, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, IT Management, IT Architecture, IT…
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Here's an interesting issue you may run into when migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. E-mails passing through the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport role may bounce back with a Non-Delivery Report (NDR) with the SMTP code 550 5.7.1 that says something like "Submission has been disabled for this account." You would normally only see…
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Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 was released today! Check out the new features here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28190 Or read the announcement from the Exchange Team here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/12/05/released-exchange-server-2010-sp2.aspx Josh BryantCybersecurity Product Leader and internationally recognized Speaker at several Information Security conferences and events with over 26 years of experience…
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Alex Fontana over on the VMware blogs posted a great article on choosing between virtual disks (VMDK files) and Raw-device Mappings (RDM) when virtualizing an Exchange server. Check it out here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/11/virtualized-exchange-storage-vmdk-or-rdm-or.html I have deployed virtualized Exchange servers on VMDK files in ESXi 4.1 environments without any issues. I've also used the "In-guest iSCSI" method…
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Last week I showed you a script that I wrote to create a mass amount of databases and database copies on an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG). Since that script was a work in progress, I needed to test it again. This meant I needed to get rid of most of the databases it…
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A few weeks ago, I showed you my solution to creating a mass amount of disks with PowerShell and diskpart, for future use as Exchange 2010 database and log drives. I finally had time to go back and create the databases for this environment. In this environment, I had 4 Exchange 2010 servers with the…
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Today at work I had to partition, format, and label, 193 disks, in Server 2008 R2. Each disk was a LUN on an EMC SAN. The server is an HP ProLiant BL460c G7 Server Blade. This will be an Exchange 2010 mailbox server that is part of a Database Availability Group (DAG) when it is…