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Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:40:47 GMT

Hi There (I’m so excited Exchange 2010 SP3 testing and also Champions League games Today!)

Yesterday the Exchange Team released the Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 and in this post we are going over the process to upgrade an existent Exchange Server 2010 with the new SP3.

Before going there a few key points about this upgrade:

Please read the Release Notes: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj965774%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
Exchange Server 2010 can be installed on top of Windows Server 2012.
Just to make sure that we are on the same page, you need to run this SP3 on brand new Windows Server 2012 in order to work.
There are schema changes in this upgrade which means that you need Schema Admins privileges to do that. You can do either through GUI Setup interface or command-line. In this Tutorial our user has enough permissions and we will do everything from the GUI
You can install this Service Pack on OS running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2
There is a database schema upgrades which means that we can’t mount an upgraded database in a previous version of the product and that applies to DAGs as well.
Based on the MS documentation, each database upgrade could take 30 minutes to be upgraded
There is a new feature called Sent Items Management feature that we are going over in a future post
That is just the first step towards integration, a new Exchange Server 2013 CU1 (not released yet) is required to join Exchange Server 2013 into your organization

Also, before deploying in production you must make sure that all those best practices are in place, such as:

Perform the upgrade in your lab first
Make sure that you have backups
In production the upgrade order is important: Edge (if you have it), then facing Internet CAS, Hub and then finally mailboxes and UM.
Make sure that you are not running any instance of Exchange Management Console or Exchange Management Shell on the server
Your Backup software is compatible with Service Pack 3
Your Backup service is stopped during the upgrade
Your AV/Antispam is compatible with Service Pack 3
You may want to stop AV during the upgrade
Any other third-party software is compatible with Service Pack 3

Here are the steps to upgrade to the SP3. Let's double click on setup.exe that can be found on the root of the extracted files from our download. In the main page, just click on Install Microsoft Exchange Server upgrade

In the Introduction page. Just a welcome to the new SP3, just click on Next.

In the License Agreement page. If you read and you are okay with it, please click on I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next.

In the Readiness Checks page. Make sure that everything is green or at least yellow, as a best practice make sure that everything is green before moving forward. If there is need for any update, you can download and install. Click on Upgrade when you are ready.

Wait a few minutes (perhaps more than that depending of your databases) and the results should be something similar to this.

Have you had any issues? You can always look at the C:\ExchangeSetupLogs to see what is going on behind the curtains, as shown in the figure below.

If we look at the version of the server we will see 14.3 (Build 123.4)

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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Managing Mailbox Owner Audit in Exchange Server 2010

Anderson Patricio — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:56:48 GMT

Hi there,

In Today’s post we are going over a a feature that is not used very often which is the mailbox owner audit in Exchange Server 2010. This feature can be used for legal reasons to make sure that we have audit not just from Delegates, Administrator but also owners.

In some companies we have users that open restore tickets because the message “disappeared” from their mailbox and since IT department by default don’t have anything to proof that wasn’t the mail system fault we just need to start restoring data (of course when they open the ticket the Recover Deleted Item period is long gone ).

So, the first step is to enable Audit on a mailbox and we can do that by running Set-Mailbox <Mailbox> –AuditEnabled $True

After enabling Auditing on the mailbox we will have by default some actions being logged when the source is Delegates or Administrators on the audited mailbox. The default logged actions are deletions (soft and hard), send as, new and updated items basically.

Enabling Mailbox Owner Audit…

Time to audit the mailbox owner and for that we can use the cmdlet below. Bear in mind that Update,MoveToDeletedItems,SoftDelete and HardDelete are all our options to the owner.

Note: You must have the AuditEnabled set to True to have the data being recorded.

Visualizing the Audit on a mailbox…

Okay we configured the Audit for a user and we want to see what is being logged on. A good way to do that is by running the following cmdlet where we will have all Audit details about that specific mailbox.

Checking the logs…

Okay, finally on a Friday afternoon our beloved user open a ticket asking for a restore of an item that disappeared, time for Exchange Show time!

Run the following cmdlet: Search-Mailbox –Identity <Mailbox> –LogonType Owner and voilà we have all entries containing who, where, which client and so forth. You can export the content or play with PowerShell to narrow down the results but you get all the proof to inform the end-user that items do not disappear without a reason.

By the way, you can use three values for LogonType which are: Owner, Delegate and Admin.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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Removing the first line (#TYPE) when using Export-csv cmdlet

Anderson Patricio — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:37:46 GMT

Hello my friends,

If you export data from Exchange you may have already noticed that after exporting data you will have a first line which by default starts with #TYPE and then specifies the object (full qualified).

If you are not sure we can show you the issue in a couple of steps. First Let’s get a list of all our mailboxes and then export to the file OUTemp.csv

If we open the file, here we have the first line with the information.

It’s not a big deal but when you open on Excel instead of having your columns ready to rock and roll you have to go there and delete the line.

The solution..

The solution can be found in the export-csv cmdlet by using the switch –NoTypeInformation as show in the figure below.

Now, as result we can open the CSV file generated by the previous cmdlet and voilà we don’t have that line.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:46:49 GMT

Hi folks,

It’s finally here the new Exchange Server is available and you we can start testing! Have fun!!

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 enables you to maintain control, increase user productivity, and keep your organization safe. You can move to the cloud on your terms with flexible migration options. Your users can do more on any device, helping them manage increasing volumes of email and work together more effectively as teams. You can also protect your business communications and sensitive information, while meeting internal and regulatory compliance requirements. With Exchange Server 2013, you can work smarter, anywhere.

Remain in control, online and on-premises.
Exchange Server 2013 enables you to tailor your solution based on your unique needs and ensures your communications are always available while you remain in control, on your own terms - online, on-premises, or a hybrid of the two.
Do more, on any device.
Exchange Server 2013 helps your users be more productive by helping them manage increasing volumes of communications across multiple devices and work together more effectively as teams.
Keep your organization safe.
Exchange Server 2013 keeps your organization safe by enabling you to protect business communications and sensitive information to meet internal and regulatory compliance requirements.

Get it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973395

Grande Abraco,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio

Autoconfiguration was unable to determine your settings!

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:59:37 GMT

Hi folks,

One of my customers was saying that some machines were not able to retrieve the Autodiscover settings in Outlook internally with the following error message:

Before doing a deep drive on the server side I asked the guy a couple of simple questions, such as:

Do you have success in different computers? The answer was yes.
If you log on with a different windows profile on the same machine, does it work? the answer was Yes.

At this point the odds are that is an issue on the client side, just to be safe I went ahead and made sure that all Webservices URLs on the CAS servers on the site where the client was located had the same configuration and after some research I found out that there is a Registry Key that allows to change the Autodiscover behaviour on the client side.

Let’s open the regedit on the affected user and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<OfficeVersion>\Outlook\AutoDiscover and on that key you may have the following entries:

PreferLocalXML
ExcludeHttpRedirect
ExcludeHttpsAutodiscoverDomain
ExcludeHttpsRootDomain
ExcludeScpLookup
ExcludeSrvLookup
ExcludeSrvRecord

When the value of those keys are set to 1 you disable such feature, in my client I had all of them set to 1 and that was the reason for the issue. You can safely delete those or set them to 0 and then close and open Outlook and voilà Autodiscover is working like a charm again.

Note: The root cause of this issue (and that was on my case) was the Office 365/BPOS installed on the client however different applications/providers can take advantage of this registry key in your environment.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:32:25 GMT

Hi Folks,

ExchangeTeam created a series of posts about Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines, here are the complete series, really good stuff!

Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/25/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-1.aspx
Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/27/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-2.aspx
Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 3
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/07/02/establishing-exchange-content-index-rebuild-baselines-part-3.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

Product Review: Lepide Exchange Manager

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:47:45 GMT

Hello folks,

Today’s review will be about a tool called Lepide Exchange Manager developed by Lepide Software (www.lepide.com) and the version that we are using for this review is the version 12. This tool can be used with Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 and 2010.

The trial version of the tool reviewed here can be found at http://www.lepide.com/exchange-manager/.

First impressions and overview...

Lepide Exchange Manager can be considered a Swiss Army knife for a messaging administrator and because of its neat features it allows a recover from a Disaster within a few steps, and besides of the recover capabilities which caught my attention at the first glance the tool also has search, report and export/import capabilities which are key for the daily exchange administration tasks.

The installation process is pretty straight forward and requires just a little of attention from the messaging administrator such as Outlook (32 or 64 bits) installed on the machine where the tool will be installed, other than that you will have the tool up and running in less than 5 minutes. Also, the message administrator must be prepared to seize disk properly in order to be able to restore large EDB/PSTs and OSTs files on the server where the tool is installed.

The tool was well designed and on its first page has two areas: Source and Destination where the administrator will spent most of the time during its working on the tool and all features and capabilities are no more than 2 clicks away from this initial page (figure 01).

Figure 01: Lepide Exchange Manager main interface

The source is where the messaging administrator can define where the exchange information is coming from and here you have the server side with offline EDB (healthy and corrupted databases) and live exchange mailboxes (could be a single or multiples mailboxes) and also the client side where the traditional PST or even OST files can be used (Figure 01), and the second step is the destination where the messaging administrator can choose from a PST (new or existent) or Live Exchange Servers.

Figure 02: Selecting a source

After defining Source and Destination the administrator will have access to all capabilities of the software that we are going over in the following sections where content can be copied/exported between Source and destination. The administrator also can check with a glance a preview of the exchange data loaded as Source and from there generate reports, search content, export data and so forth.

Search features…

The Search feature was reviewed as well and it allows the administrator to select many mailboxes and use several fields to perform a search (Figure 03) and because it can be run against offline DBs and also live mailboxes becomes a really good feature for auditing purposes. The administrator also has several tabs to narrow down the search and even exclude duplicates based on some parameters.

Figure 03: Initial Search Source page

Reporting features...

The report is available at Mailbox level and the administrator just need to select with folder to be used in the report and the pre-defined Reports (Figure 04) and a page with the results will be displayed and then the administrator has the option to save them and the only option available is HTML

Figure 04: Generating a Report

Import/Export features

Lepide Exchange Manager has great Import/Export features which are really handy for several scenarios, the first feature that catch my attention was the ability to export any content from an open source (Offline EDB, PST/OST, or Exchange live mailboxes) to either MSG or EML format and also the ability to save in a file with the same hierarchy (Figure 05). Besides of that you can also import the data back from those types of files.

Figure 05: Exporting a message to a file which can be imported in similar process to a PST/Live mailbox

Besides of using this feature during a recover scenario it also can be well used to validate the Exchange backup where a restored database can be loaded into the tool and a message can be restored without impacting the production environment. I’m pretty sure that your Backup Team will love this feature when they have to satisfy SOX auditors.

Review Summary

In these final notes about this review I’m definitely giving two thumbs up for Lepide Exchange Manager or if you prefer the 1 to 5 scale I would definitely give a 4.5 where the product met and exceed my expectations.

This review was my first contact with Lepide Exchange Manager and I’m still impressed how easy was to deploy and get the results that were expected from the tool and also its performance to manage different source data (Exchange Offline Database EDB, PST/OST files and live mailboxes), especially in cases of a Disaster Recovery situation the tool becomes a key component and not just at the server level but also helping to export data from OST files.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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Can’t verify domain in Office 365

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:40:06 GMT

Hello my friends,

If you are getting the following error message and you are sure that all DNS entries were added properly, you may be right! I’m having this issue with my personal domain where I associated and validated the domain andersonpatricio.ca a long time ago with a test account for an articles series and even though my Office 365 trial account has expired for months I can’t use that domain anymore.

The solution? There is nothing that you can do at your end, you must open a ticket with Microsoft Support and they will give a couple of options: allow you to log on your old account and delete the domain from there or start a internal process to clean up the domain (I’m not sure about this one because I haven’t got there yet but it seems like that is the plan B).

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
Twitter: @apatricio

RPC averaged latency performance counter really high…

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:10:51 GMT

Hi folks,

Today I got a weird issue that took me quite a long time to figure it out and I would like to share with you guys. Everything started when a brand new DAG was deployed and everything went just fine during the installation process however during the initial testing I noticed a RPC averaged latency performance counter really high.

In the figure below you can see how bad was it and I the server had just a few users that were part of my pre-pilot phase.

I’ve done a couple of tests, as follows:

- First, I ran the Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus and everything was golden

- I moved the databases to a single node, and then noticed that the utilization kept the same

- I restarted the RPC Client access and the same issue were the performance counter didn’t change (expected)

- I restarted the Information Store and then the performance counter went to 0 but as soon as I moved any DB the number would increase again.

- I ran Test-ReplicationHealth and no issues at all

- I use PAL tool to analyse performance and the disks were just fine

- I ran netstat to see the connections and nothing was outstanding

- Exchange Best Practices Analyzer

In this environment that I was working they have a LTM (Local Traffic Manager) and then I noticed that I could access the Domain Controller (\\unc) however I couldn’t ping. I double check and there was a SNAT and a Virtual Server were in place, the missing piece was the ability to ping the Domain Controllers, so in a F5 we should go to System / Configuration / Local Traffic and change the default behaviour of the box to All traffic in the SNAT Packet Forwarding setting.

After performing that change I moved the databases around and the RPC averaged latency came back to 0

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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How to use a script to change the ASA (Kerberos) password using Exchange Server 2010

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:22:02 GMT

Hi folks,

If you are using a load balancer and your design decision was to use Kerberos instead of NTLM for the CAS Array and you are a couple of good reasons for that you may want also to create a procedure to change the password for the Computer and then update the Client Access Server that use that account.

During the deployment probably you used a script like this one to set the password, right?

RollAlternateServiceAccountPassword.ps1 –ToArrayMembers ArrayName.domain.local –GenerateNewPasswordFor domain.fqdn\ASAAccount$

If you want to change that password every month for example we can run the following cmdlet:

RollAlternateServiceAccountPassword.ps1 -CreateScheduledTask "Exchange-ASA" –ToArrayMembers ArrayName.domain.local –GenerateNewPasswordFor domain.fqdn\ASAAccount$

The result of the cmdlet above is a creation of a new .cmd script file will be created on the Scripts folder and the name will be based on the parameter –CreateScheduleTask.

Another change introduced by the previous cmdlet is a new task entry on the server. I would recommend for the sake of simplicity and security to perform a couple of changes..

First is to change the schedule to run in a monthly basis and we can select every first Sunday of the month and schedule the time for something like 1AM
Second is to change the security options and use a specific account just for that task. This account must be member of the Exchange Organization group.

Now, we can run the task to make sure that everything works properly and in order to help the troubleshooting process, we can always check the results of the operation on the folder RollAlternateServiceAccountPassword that can be found on X:\Exchange-Installation-Folder\V14\Logging

For each run of the script a couple of log files will be generated and they will help you to identify what is going on in the process.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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How to configure Send As permission in a Distribution Group

Anderson Patricio — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:30:34 GMT

Hi folks,

In Today’s post we are going over the process to allow a user to send message as a Distribution Group in Exchange Server 2010.

The first step is to find out which group we will be assigning the permission and it can be easily done through Get-DistributionGroup name* and using wildcard it’s easy to narrow down the results to get just the name that we are looking for.

Now, that we have the name we just need to assign the permission using the following cmdlet

Add-ADPermission<Group-Name> -ExtendedRights Send-as –User “DOMAIN\Username”

Time to do some testing.. Let’s open a new session in Outlook Web App and then create a new message, let’s click on Options and select the option Show From

Now we will have the From field available on the new message, click on it, and click on Other e-mail address.

In the new page select the group that we have just assigned the permission and click okay, in the new message page the results will be similar to the one shown below.

The results for the end-user can be seen on the figure below, where the user who received the message has the information that the message was sent by the group.

If you are using Outlook for testing, don’t worry, just click on Options and them select From button and you will be able to do the same testing.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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Released: Exchange Server 2007/2010 Rollup Updates

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:47:19 GMT

Hello Folks,

Exchange Team released a new set of Rollup Updates for Exchange Server 2010 and 2007, as follows:

Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2: Released- Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2
Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3: Released- Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

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Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator BETA2

Anderson Patricio — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:39:26 GMT

Hi folks,

If you are trying to convince your boss how the bandwidth benefits of moving those remote users to OWA specially in Exchange Server 2010 the Exchange Client Network Bandwidth calculator is your tool, in this release the team added support to Office 365 and they also said that next release will have support for Outlook 2011 for Mac.

Check it out some of the new features of this new release (Beta2) that I copied from the original post:

Corrected Outlook 2003 network latency requirements
Provided some Office 365 context help
- Added Office 365 icon against recommended Office 365 clients
- If Office 365 is selected on the input page
  - Availability protocol is highlighted if configured incorrectly for Office 365
  - OWA 2007 removed from client list
  - Outlook 2003 removed from client list
  - Non-Outlook Anywhere clients removed from list

Check the tool out: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/09/exchange-client-network-bandwidth-calculator-beta2.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.ca
http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese)
Twitter: @apatricio

Operations Manager Management Pack for Exchange 2010

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:06:43 GMT

This .chm file contains management pack alerts and topics for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 . You can use the procedure topics in the file to help resolve the alerts generated by the Operations Manager Management Pack.

Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3141f70-3552-4dd6-80ac-97ee9cda8a39

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

Managing Distribution Groups in Exchange Server

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:47:31 GMT

Hi folks,

I've just started a new article series about Distribution Groups in Exchange Server 2010.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange: Administration Center 103

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:17:45 GMT

Hi folks,

Third part of a series about ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange.

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is a hosted service that provides a layer of protection to actively help protect inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. In this video series, I'll walk you through the Administration Center, which is the service management site for Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.

Watch it out at: http://edge.technet.com/Media/3Forefront-Online-Protection-for-Exchange-Administration-Center-103/

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

GAL Photos: Frequently Asked Questions

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:16:37 GMT

Hi folks,

A while ago I published an article about GAL Photos in my column at MSExchange.org however I didn't cover the OAB portion of it. In this new blog post from MSExchange.org team they have a FAQ and one of those questions explains how to enable OAB with GAL phots.

Check this out: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/06/01/455005.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange: Administration Center 102

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:19:04 GMT

In this second video I'll highlight some of the features and tools in the Domains subtab.

Check this out at: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Forefront-Online-Protection-for-Exchange-Administration-Center-102/

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

MSExchange.org Article: Exchange Management Console: New features in Exchange Server 2010

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:59:00 GMT

Hi folks,

I wrote an article about new features of Exchange Management Console in Exchange Server 2010 and it was published Today.

Here is the link: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/exchange-management-console-new-features-in-exchange-server-2010.html

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-024 released

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:55:29 GMT

Hi folks,

We have released security updates for the following versions of Exchange:

Security Update for Exchange 2000 Server (KB976703)
Security Update for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (KB976702)
Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB981407)
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB981383)
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB981401)

Security related changes for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 ship as Update rollups following the cumulative servicing model. However we have tried to keep the number of non-security related changes in these rollups down to a minimum.

More information can be found in the security bulletin at Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service Could Allow Denial of Service (981832)

More information: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/13/454610.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio