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Exchange 2010 SP1 FAQ and Known Issues

September 2, 2010

Last week we released Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. It has received some great feedback and reviews from customers, experts, analysts, and the Exchange community. The starting point for SP1 setup/upgrade should be the What’s New in SP1, SP1 Release Notes, and Prerequisites docs. As with any new release, there are some frequently asked [...]

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EMC and certificates with failed revocation checks in Exchange 2010

September 1, 2010

Starting with Exchange Server 2007, we added protection for Exchange data paths to Client Access Servers using SSL. SMTP communication between transport servers is also protected using TLS. To ensure this protection is enabled out-of-the-box, Exchange setup creates self-signed certificates and enables SSL and TLS by default. For external communication, we recommend that you procure [...]

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Exchange 2010 SP1 and Support for FIPS Compliant Algorithms

August 31, 2010

When will Exchange Server 2010 Support FIPS compliance? Exchange Server 2010 SP1 provides for the ability to disable algorithms which are not FIPS 140-2 compliant; these algorithms are used for encryption, hashing, and signing within the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems that support Exchange Server 2010. When the Security Options [...]

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Exchange 2010 SP1: What’s new with the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer?

August 30, 2010

Wondering what’s new in Exchange Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 (ExBPA E14SP1)? Curious about how updates to the tool are being handled in Exchange 2010? Here’s the answer to some of your questions: How do I get ExBPA E14SP1? Since Exchange Server 2007, the Best Practices Analyzer (along with other useful [...]

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Confused About Named Properties Quotas in Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007? Join the Club!

August 29, 2010

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to learn new stuff everyday! It’s like being in school all of the time! And yes, I was that person in class that always ruined the curve for everyone else. If you have been using either Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 for any [...]

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Throttling Policy Associations in Exchange 2010 SP1

August 28, 2010

Exchange 2010 SP1 introduces two new throttling cmdlets: get-ThrottlingPolicyAssociation and set-ThrottlingPolicyAssociation. In Exchange 2010 RTM, in order to determine which throttling policy was associated with a given user, you would use something like: Get-Mailbox JohnDoe | fl ThrottlingPolicy To assign a non-default throttling policy to a user you would call set-Mailbox JohnDoe -ThrottlingPolicy Foo One [...]

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Understanding Remote Mailbox Move and Unified Messaging

August 28, 2010

Remote mailbox move (a.k.a. cross-forest mailbox move) refers to the process of migrating an Exchange mailbox from one Active Directory forest to another. Exchange 2010 supports remote mailbox moves via the MoveRequest cmdlets. Here are some of the considerations for performing remote mailbox moves on mailboxes which are enabled for Unified Messaging (UM). This article [...]

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What is Exchange 2010 automatic mailbox distribution?

August 28, 2010

Have you ever wondered why, in Exchange 2010, you can create a new mailbox and you don’t have to tell Exchange in what mailbox database it should be created? Or had an administrator in one department create a mailbox, and the mailbox is created in a database that their department isn’t assigned? If you’ve answered [...]

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Exchange 2010 Cross-Forest Mailbox Moves

August 28, 2010

EDIT 8/12/2010: Added a note about the necessity to manually enable MSProxy in remote forest. We are seeing some trends where quite a few customers are migrating mailboxes to a new Exchange organization, in a different Active Directory (AD) forest. This blog post is aimed at helping to explain the fundamentals of what is required [...]

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Summer reading fun

August 28, 2010

As many of you know I review Exchange books for fun (yea… an odd hobby of mine), and I always look forward to new Exchange books coming out. Today it is my pleasure to note that two of our very own TAPs (Siegfried Jagott and Joel Stidley) had a new book coming out that covers [...]

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