Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 has been released
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Nicolas Blank in News
I’ll spare you the marketing, here are the three links you may be most interested in.
The download link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b32685-4356-49cc-8b37-d9c9d4ea3f5b&displaylang=en
The release notes are here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728620(EXCHG.141).aspx
MOST important – what’s new:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257(EXCHG.141).aspx
The CAS role has improved even more, with numerous improvements, including the ability to federate with self signed certificates (that’s not a typo), but read on….
I’d like to mention a few more things which I’m excited about:
The multitenancy support is awesome, so is the depreciation of isinteg allowing individual mailbox repairs, so is the installer installing the required dependencies, so is public folder client permission support being added to the ECP, being able to reset a single virtual directory from a cmdlet, faster OWA, etc,etc.
Bit of a ramble but there you go. Have a read, get excited and if you were waiting for SP1 to deploy Exchange 2010 you finally have it!
Outlook 2003 and exchange 2010 – enabling encryption – where was that GPO and other issues
Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by Nicolas Blank in News
By now you’ve noticed that Outlook 2003 doesn’t do encryption out of the box, and you KNOW there’s a better way of doing this than touching every desktop by hand – here it is:
KB2006508 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2006508 talks you through how to build the GPO for Outlook 2003 and 2007
While were talking about Outlook not connecting – KB924625 mentions a number of issues you may face troubleshooting Outlook connecting to 2007/2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924625
While were talking Outlook and Exchange two articles are also super interesting:
Common Client Access Considerations for Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/23/454711.aspx
and
Understanding RPC Client Access
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332317.aspx
And while were talking about clients and what they’re doing:
Exchange Server User Monitor
While there’s plenty more material out there, I wanted to put a marker in the ground and start somewhere – I’m hoping I’ll update this post as I dig up more.
Nic
Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Nicolas Blank in News
A quick mention and a quote from the original post. I’d like to encourage anyone who is in an architectural or operational capacity to subscribe to the Exchange teams blog.
Quoting from the original blog post:
Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) to the download center.
KB 982639 lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we’d like to call out starting with 5 improvements we made to prevent crashes in very unique scenarios.
- KB 980852 The RpcClientAccess process on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when you access a mailbox by using a MAPI application
- KB 979801 An error message is generated in Exchange Server 2010 when you use Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant
- KB 980364 The Exchange Transport service on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when a certain message is processed
- KB 980353 A MAPI application that is used to access Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes crashes when the application accesses an address book
- KB 979790 An IMAP4 client crashes when accessing an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
We corrected a few replication issues some of you encountered.
- KB 980149 The Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy command fails when it is used to add a database copy to a Database Availability Group in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
- KB 981961 Event ID 4033 is logged and the Free/Busy replication from an Exchange Server 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server fails
- KB 979921 You cannot replicate a public folder from one Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 server to another, and Event ID 3079 is logged on the target server
One unique thing added was an ability for an administrator to adjust filtering of XML attachments so an OWA user can save them. Some customers were facing a compliance versus level of security tradeoff. See more about configuring this option in KB 983200, which discusses adding administrator control over attachment stripping. We also included at least eight other fixes that some of you requested in this release which we already had worked on for a service pack but are able to deliver to you sooner.
KB 982639 has more details about this release and a complete list of all fixes included in this worthwhile rollup.
Forefront users:
For those of you running Forefront, be sure you perform these important steps from the command line in the Forefront directory before and after this rollup’s installation process. Without these steps, Exchange services for Information Store and Transport will not start back up. You will need to disable ForeFront via "fscutility /disable" before installing the patch and then re-enable after the patch by running "fscutility /enable" to start it up again post installation.
Questions / discussions of the Update Rollup and issues
Please go to our Update forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate
GPO Execution Policy Issue
If you use a GPO to define the Windows PowerShell execution policy, you probably had problems installing previous RUs. We have addressed this problem in this Update.
Availability on Microsoft Update:
We plan to release this update on Microsoft Update in about 2 weeks.
