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Fix for Excessive Duplicate Contacts

The EXPTA {blog} — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:56:00 GMT

If you're running Lync in your environment you may notice that you have multiple duplicate contacts in your contacts list. This issue also affects your ActiveSync mobile devices, such as the iPhone. If you open one of these duplicate contacts, you...(read more)

RPC Client Encryption in Exchange 2013

The EXPTA {blog} — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:50:00 GMT

Exchange 2013 enables RPC client encryption by default (again). I say "again" because it was an option in Exchange 2007 and became the default setting in Exchange 2010 RTM. This caused a fair amount of trouble for organizations using Outlook...(read more)

How to Enable Logging for RPC Client Access Throttling in Exchange 2010

The EXPTA {blog} — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:19:00 GMT

Throttling is a resource protection feature introduced with Exchange 2010. It is designed to prevent a single user or groups of users from consuming all the Exchange resources and causing a denial of service (DoS) attack. Users will see various warnings...(read more)

How to Configure Exchange 2010 SP1 Federation

The EXPTA {blog} — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:42:00 GMT

Exchange federation allows different Exchange organizations to share free/busy information with each other. It does this without having to configure a one- or two-way trust between the organizations. Federation is accomplished using the Microsoft Federated...(read more)

Transferring Auto-Completion Information to Outlook 2010

The EXPTA {blog} — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:09:00 GMT

All versions of Outlook since Outlook 2003 have had a feature called Auto-Complete. Auto-Completion "remembers" recipient names and email addresses that you have used before and offers to complete the email address as you type characters. This...(read more)

How to Configure Fast Cached Exchange Mode Settings for Outlook 2010 Using Group Policy

The EXPTA {blog} — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:19:00 GMT

Microsoft introduced Cached Exchange Mode in Outlook 2003, and it's been the default configuration ever since. Cached Exchange Mode saves a copy of your mailbox on your computer which provides quick access to your data and is frequently updated with...(read more)

Configuring Out of Office settings using Exchange 2010 SP1

The EXPTA {blog} — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:02:00 GMT

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 offers two handy new cmdlets, Get- MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration and Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration , that allow you to manage Out of Office (OOF) messages for remote users. Previously, you used to reset the user's...(read more)