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Hi There (I’m so excited Exchange 2010 SP3 testing and also Champions League games Today!) Yesterday the Exchange Team released the Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 and in this post we are going over the process to upgrade an existent Exchange Server 2010 with the new SP3. Before going there a few key points about this upgrade: Please read the Release Notes: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj965774%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx Exchange Server 2010 can be installed on top of Windows Server 2012. Just to make sure that we are on the same page, you need to run this SP3 on brand new Windows Server 2012 in … Continue reading Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Hi there, In Today’s post we are going over a a feature that is not used very often which is the mailbox owner audit in Exchange Server 2010. This feature can be used for legal reasons to make sure that we have audit not just from Delegates, Administrator but also owners. In some companies we have users that open restore tickets because the message “disappeared” from their mailbox and since IT department by default don’t have anything to proof that wasn’t the mail system fault we just need to start restoring data (of course when they open the ticket the … Continue reading Managing Mailbox Owner Audit in Exchange Server 2010

Hello my friends, If you export data from Exchange you may have already noticed that after exporting data you will have a first line which by default starts with #TYPE and then specifies the object (full qualified). If you are not sure we can show you the issue in a couple of steps. First Let’s get a list of all our mailboxes and then export to the file OUTemp.csv If we open the file, here we have the first line with the information. It’s not a big deal but when you open on Excel instead of having your columns ready … Continue reading Removing the first line (#TYPE) when using Export-csv cmdlet

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Hi folks, It’s finally here the new Exchange Server is available and you we can start testing! Have fun!! Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 enables you to maintain control, increase user productivity, and keep your organization safe. You can move to the cloud on your terms with flexible migration options. Your users can do more on any device, helping them manage increasing volumes of email and work together more effectively as teams. You can also protect your business communications and sensitive information, while meeting internal and regulatory compliance requirements. With Exchange Server 2013, you can work smarter, anywhere. Remain in control, … Continue reading Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview

Hi folks, One of my customers was saying that some machines were not able to retrieve the Autodiscover settings in Outlook internally with the following error message: Before doing a deep drive on the server side I asked the guy a couple of simple questions, such as: Do you have success in different computers? The answer was yes. If you log on with a different windows profile on the same machine, does it work? the answer was Yes. At this point the odds are that is an issue on the client side, just to be safe I went ahead and … Continue reading Autoconfiguration was unable to determine your settings!

Hi Folks, ExchangeTeam created a series of posts about Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines, here are the complete series, really good stuff! Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 1 http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/25/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-1.aspx Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 2 http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/27/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-2.aspx Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 3 http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/07/02/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-3.aspx Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

Hello folks, Today’s review will be about a tool called Lepide Exchange Manager developed by Lepide Software (www.lepide.com) and the version that we are using for this review is the version 12. This tool can be used with Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 and 2010. The trial version of the tool reviewed here can be found at http://www.lepide.com/exchange-manager/. First impressions and overview… Lepide Exchange Manager can be considered a Swiss Army knife for a messaging administrator and because of its neat features it allows a recover from a Disaster within a few steps, and besides of the recover capabilities which caught my … Continue reading Product Review: Lepide Exchange Manager

Hello my friends, If you are getting the following error message and you are sure that all DNS entries were added properly, you may be right! I’m having this issue with my personal domain where I associated and validated the domain andersonpatricio.ca a long time ago with a test account for an articles series and even though my Office 365 trial account has expired for months I can’t use that domain anymore. The solution? There is nothing that you can do at your end, you must open a ticket with Microsoft Support and they will give a couple of options: … Continue reading Can’t verify domain in Office 365

Hi folks, Today I got a weird issue that took me quite a long time to figure it out and I would like to share with you guys. Everything started when a brand new DAG was deployed and everything went just fine during the installation process however during the initial testing I noticed a RPC averaged latency performance counter really high. In the figure below you can see how bad was it and I the server had just a few users that were part of my pre-pilot phase. I’ve done a couple of tests, as follows: – First, I ran … Continue reading RPC averaged latency performance counter really high…