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20/09/2011

Issues with setting default language for Outlook Web App 2010

Now and then I get request to implement a default language for Outlook Web Access or App. This meant that users already had their language and regional settings set for OWA. Exchange only asks this the first time the user logs into OWA, this is because the language code is set to 0. It’s just a little service for your...

Exchange 2010/Management/OWA/Question of the day Comments: 0

21/07/2011

Forgot your Exchange OWA URL?

Even if you have a computer with Outlook 2010, sometimes you want or need to do stuff in Outlook Web App (OWA). For instance, remote wipe your lost ActiveSync smartphone. But what if you do not remember the URL and the servicedesk is closed etc. etc.? Well, if you have Outlook 2010, you can look it up. Go to File>Info...

Outlook clients/OWA/Question of the day Comments: 0

15/07/2011

Exchange, Load balancers and recommendations

This is a follow-up post to Differences in Exchange Load Balancing recommendations by Microsoft and vendors. This post refers to issues I discovered and were discussed in that post. I suggest reading the previous article before reading this one. I also expect some experience with load balancers in combination with Exchange Server 2010. In the previous post I mentioned several discrepancies...

Exchange 2010/High Availability Comments: 0

30/05/2011

Differences in Exchange Load Balancing recommendations by Microsoft and vendors

*** See my followup here Exchange, Load balancers and recommendations: At TechEd North America 2011 Andrew Ehrensing (Solution Architect form Microsoft) presented the session “Load Balancing with Exchange Server 2010” (EXL307) for which the video and slides can be found here. It was an excellent session, a lot of useful information even if you don’t have to load balance with...

Exchange 2010/High Availability/TechEd Comments: 0

17/05/2011

First day of TechEd North America 2011

As you may know, I’m at TechEd North America at the moment in a cloudy and surprisingly chilly Atlanta (GA). For a live feed, follow my twitter account @dmstork. I already arrived a few days early but wanted to use my time to check out the neighborhood and do some shopping, dining etc.. Now that sunday and monday are over...

Exchange 2010/TechEd Comments: 0

28/04/2011

Change in Exchange 2010 SP1 CAS static port configuration

For those who are using Exchange 2010 DAG and a Network Load Balancer, note that there is a small difference between RTM and SP1. If you choose to use static ports for your Client Access Servers, for the Address Book Services you would edit the Microsoft.exchange.addressbook.service.exe.config located in: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin” But with SP1 (directly installed or upgraded from RTM),...

Exchange 2010/High Availability Comments: 0

30/03/2011

“My Site” button in OWA 2010

During a Exchange 2010 course, a student actually showed me a cool little feature I wasn’t aware of. If you enter the AD attribute “Web page” in Active Directory, that user will get an extra button in Outlook Web App. Pressing that button opens a new browser windows/tab and opens the page. Especially nice in combination with an Intranet or...

Exchange 2010/OWA Comments: 0

14/03/2011

Setting the Postmaster address in Exchange

Somebody asked me today, whether it is a good idea to set the postmaster address in Exchange. Well, short answer: yes! It’s is even mandatory according to RFC 5321 section 4.5.1. For Exchange 2010 you will have to use the Set-TransportConfig cmdlet: Set-TransportConfig -ExternalPostmasterAddress <ExternalPostmasterSMTPAddress> For Exchange 2007 you will have to use the Set-TransportServer cmdlet for each Hub and...

Exchange/Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010/Management/Question of the day Comments: 0

21/02/2011

Migrating from Exchange 2003 and missing recipients in 2010?

Recently a colleague of mine migrated the mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. But he noticed something weird, in the Exchange Management Console (2010) the newly migrated users could be seen, but in the Exchange System Manager (2003) he could still see active mailboxes. He confirmed that they were still using the Exchange 2003 server. About 50% were migrated...

Exchange/Question of the day Comments: 0

03/02/2011

update Zarafa Web Access vs Outlook Web App

*** update 25/2/2010: Zarafa has contacted me with some additional info: The final release of the new Zarafa Web Access is expected end 2011 or beginning 2012 and will have a seperate versioning than ZCP itself. So, it is still in development and my and other feedback will be taken in consideration. 🙂 The Outlook Web Team has also responded...

Exchange 2010/OWA Comments: 0

18/01/2011

OWA 2010 and browsers tidbits

I love Outlook Web App. It’s rich functionality, management capabilities via ECP and especially the multiple browser support for the Premium experience. Yes, you do not need IE for (almost) full functionality anymore. Exchange 2007 OWA Premium still was only supported by IE and I ended up using IE just for OWA2007. In my opinion, IE couldn’t compete with Firefox....

Exchange 2010/OWA/Personal Comments: 0

23/12/2010

Fixing a broken OWA 2010 Virtual Directory

Several days ago a co-worker needed my assistance with a broken Outlook Web App 2010. A failed attempt to configure the root to redirect it to \owa unfortunately failed. Trying to repair it also failed and at the end OWA was broken. A restore did not fix the issue. Now, Exchange 2010 SP1 has the ability to reset Virtual Directories...

Exchange 2010/Question of the day Comment: 1

16/12/2010

Can you easily restrict or accept messages to a Distribution Group?

Today’s question of the day is whether you can restrict users mailing to a specific Distribution Group in Exchange? Yes, you can. You can add users but also Distribution Groups to the list of who the Distribution List will accept messages from. The messages of members of the Distribution will then be accepted. A (mail enabled) Security Group is also...

Exchange/Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010/Management/Question of the day Comments: 0

25/11/2010

Exchange 2010 Mailtips not working with Outlook Anywhere users?

Today I fixed an issue where Outlook 2010 clients via Outlook Anywhere didn’t get Mailtips, but OWA, internal and users connecting via VPN did get them. Mailtips are using the EWS IIS virtual Directory. As ISA 2006 was used (and it does not have Exchange 2010 wizard as I recall), I checked whether EWS was allowed by the publishing rule....

Exchange 2010/Outlook clients Comments: 0

23/11/2010

Public Folders and the DAG

When realizing a High Available Exchange 2010 environment, you automatically going to use DAG (Database Availabilty Groups). It is a different approach with previous versions of Exchange, who leverage server redundancy. DAG supplies us with mailbox database redundancy. When using a DAG the single point of entry for your clients and for all protocols (including MAPI RPC), is the Client...

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