Category: Exchange 2010
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Exchange Server Troubleshooting Companion eBook now available
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Office 365 recently, so it was nice to have the opportunity to work on an Exchange on-premises book for a change. I’m delighted to say that MVPs Paul Cunningham and Andrew Higginbotham have completed their “Exchange Server Troubleshooting Companion” eBook that is…
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Exchange’s underappreciated single-page patching capability
I really like single page patching, the facility first introduced in Exchange 2010 to enable a database to detect that a database page is corrupt and to retrieve replacement data from another database copy. It’s one of those elegant pieces of functionality that have been introduced as Microsoft improves levels of automated…
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The scourge of autosignatures
Have you ever wondered just how much valuable storage is occupied in email databases by totally useless autosignature content? You know, logos and other tasteful adornments to the bottom of email, repeated ad nausem on every message, internal and external, unregarded and unwanted by recipients. Autosignatures serve a useful purpose…
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Write some code and you can influence DAG failovers (for now anyway…)
A recent debate on the Exchange 2013 (unofficial) Facebook group started off with the question “can I built my own failover criteria in a DAG?” and pointed to the TechNet page on Active Manager. The debate began with sheer denials, mostly on the basis that it didn’t seem to make…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015
January 2015 proved to be quite a varied month in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com. Everything from technology transfer from the cloud, new mobile clients, some issues I had with Delve, the new Office for Windows, and Azure witness servers, all washed down with a good helping of opinion and…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2014
The last month of 2014 provided the time to look back on what’s happened since Microsoft released Exchange 2000 and how well Exchange 2013 has done in the market (acceptance and in terms of the new features). But we also discussed mobile email strategy, the horrible comparison made by Novell…
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Brick backups and Exchange – not recommended
I was recently asked whether a company should invest in brick-level backup for Exchange 2010. This request came as quite a surprise because I hadn’t run into anyone who was interested in this kind of technology for a number of years. Curiosity got the better of me so I agreed…
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AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange
Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change? AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. As explained in my article “Exchange searches are limited to…
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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date
A question from a reader is often a good start to a useful discussion or to probe into a topic. Tim Read contacted me to discuss some problems he had with using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet (available in cloud and on-premises versions of Exchange). In this case, he was using Exchange…
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The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets
Microsoft introduced the rather useful cmdlet set of Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration and Get-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration a long time ago (Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 – August 2012). As you might recall, these cmdlets allow an administrator to exert control over where Exchange stores copies of messages sent by delegates. What’s surprising and genuinely puzzling is that the cmdlets were not…
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