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Best Practices for Patching Exchange
In the past month or so, I have seen some alarming trends with regards to patching Exchange. I’ve seen customers who don’t think patching is necessary at all. I’ve seen customers who were so...
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February’s Patch Tuesday Heads Up for Exchange Admins
If you remember last month, then you may recall that January was a relatively light month for Microsoft patching, with no criticals and nothing that impacts Exchange. Well, break time is over boys and...
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December’s Patch for Exchange – What You Need to Know
We reported yesterday at http://www.theemailadmin.com/2013/12/decembers-patch-tuesday-includes-critical-exchange-update/ that this month’s Microsoft updates would include a critical patch for Exchange....
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December’s Patch Tuesday Includes Critical Exchange Update
Better to know earlier than later, and this is something you need to know. Microsoft will be publishing eleven security bulletins this week, including five critical and 6 important ones. There’s a...
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Troubleshooting DAG Failovers and Other Random Drops
This latest tip comes courtesy of the Exchange Team at Microsoft. I’d like to think that somewhere deep in the Microsoft internal archives they have a file called “The Case of the Sleeping NIC.”...
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Support the New Windows 8.1 Mail Client
Microsoft recently released the new Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating system to the world, and with the new operating system comes a newly updated Mail client. Previously we covered the Mail client that...
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Google Cuts ActiveSync Support
The frosty relations between Google and Microsoft are about to get colder. As part of what Google is calling its “Winter Cleaning” campaign to make “beautiful, useful products that improve millions of...
View ArticleFile or Pile – What’s In Your Inbox?
Almost two years ago, I reported on a study sponsored by both IBM and Microsoft that found users who sort their email into folder might be wasting their time. According to the researchers, it takes...
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Troubleshooting Autodiscover Lookups
Autodiscover is one of the best components of the tie-in between Exchange and Outlook, since it provides for an automatic way for Outlook clients to discover their initial configuration, or to...
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Are You Ready to Migrate to Exchange 2013?
As any computer user knows, it’s always important to check the system requirements for a software package before purchasing it. The same is true for organizations looking to migrate to the new...
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Perils of Encryption in Exchange
RPC encryption is used to secure communication between an Outlook client and an Exchange Client Access Server (CAS). Over the years, however, the Exchange development team has had an off-again on-again...
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Critical Exchange Fix in Last Patch Tuesday Release of Year
In its last Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft pushed out seven security bulletins, including one affecting Exchange server. The “critical” bulletin concerning Exchange affects versions 2007 SP3,...
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Best Practices for Naming Exchange 2010 Databases
Have you ever wondered why Exchange 2010’s default databases are always named something along the lines of “Mailbox Database 1419556758”? What’s the secret is behind that seemingly very significant...
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New Licensing Fees for Microsoft Exchange Now in Effect
Exchange shops that are embracing the bring-your-own-device movement (BYOD) may pay extra for the practice under a new licensing scheme implemented by Microsoft on December 1, 2012. The changes affect...
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Microsoft’s Remote Connectivity Analyzer Gets a Major Upgrade
Long-time readers of The Email Admin should know by now that one of my favorite web-based tools for working with Exchange is Microsoft’s Remote Connectivity Analyzer. Called RCA by his friends, this...
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New Email Oriented Features Coming to Windows Phone 8
Earlier this month at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced a new set of enterprise features coming to Windows Phone 8 in the first half of 2014. Several of these will bolster Windows...
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Spring Cleaning for Better Security
Every year people do a spring cleaning of their home, car, office or even their lives. Spring being so symbolic of renewal gives a perfect opportunity for such a task. As email administrators, we too...
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Troubleshooting Shared Mailboxes and Sent Items
I work a lot with customers who are migrating from non-Microsoft mail platforms to Microsoft based ones, be that Exchange Online in Office 365 or on-prem. One of the interesting differences that comes...
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New Tool For Troubleshooting Exchange 2003 Public Folder Replication
There’s a new tool out from the Exchange Team that you should know about. It’s a guided walkthrough for troubleshooting public folder replication in Exchange 2003. Yes, that’s right, a tool for a...
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iOS 6.1 Devices can Cause an Enormous Amount of Data Usage on Exchange 2010
Being mobile is extremely important these days, as users will most likely be checking their mail on their phone. To insure that your system is mobile friendly across multiple phone OS’s, take the...
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