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Retrieving Exchange Autodiscover SCP information from AD via PowerShell
As part of the Autodiscover process, Outlook will query Active Directory in search for the Autodiscover SCP which it will use to discover the Autodiscover URL where it should send its request to. The configuration information for Autodiscover can easily be retrieved...
Error: You cannot synchronize the ADFS configuration database after adding a secondary federation server
Introduction There are multiple ways to setup a highly available ADFS server farm. One possibility is to install multiple federation servers using the default Windows Internal Database. In that case, the first federation server is designated as being the ‘primary’...
Apple releases update (6.0.1) for IOS solving Exchange meeting issues
Recently, a bug in Apple's implementation of ActiveSync in IOS 6 caused issues where someone would erroneously take ownership of a meeting when opening an invitation as a delegate. This phenomenon - also known as "meeting hijacking" - caused quite some issues all...
Are we going to see location-based services in Exchange 2013 soon…?
I was reading through some Exchange Server 2013 documentation, when I came across the following information on the schema changes that are introduced: It seems that new attributes now allow to add exact location information (coordinates) for mail recipients:...
Using New-Migrationbatch to perform local mailbox moves in Exchange Server 2013
Along with a whole bunch of other improvements and new features, New-Migrationbatch is one of my favorite new additions to the Management Shell. Prior, if you were moving mailboxes between mailbox servers in e.g. Exchange 2010, you had to use New-MoveRequest to...
The UC Architects – Episode 10
Episode 10 of The UC Architects is now available! In this episode, Steve Goodman, Michel de Rooij, Serkan Varoglu, Stale Hansen, John Cook and myself talk about various topics on Lync and Exchange including: Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, and Office RTM Microsoft Surface...
So… I am at The Experts Conference (TEC) in Barcelona
Some of you might already noticed through my tweets (or Out-of-Office) that I’m attending “The Experts Conference” in Barcelona this week. The conference which is organized by Quest (now Dell) features three different technical tracks: “Directory & Identity”,...
Exchange 2013 has RTM!
I'm very pleased to share with you that the Microsoft Exchange Product Team has announced the Exchange Server 2013 has released to manufacturing (RTM). This is an important milestone for the product as this means that it will become generally available soon. However,...
Microsoft re-releases update rollups for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010
Following a recent Microsoft Security Advisory article, the Exchange team has decided to re-release the following updates: Update Rollup 8-v2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2756497) Update Rollup 7-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2756496)...