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Fix for Excessive Duplicate Contacts

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...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Fri, May 24 2013
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, ActiveSync, iPhone, Outlook, OWA 2010, Lync, iPad, OWA 2013, Lync 2013, Windows Phone
OWA 2013 CU1 Redirection is Broken for Legacy Mailboxes

Exchange 2013 CU1 includes a new native module for HTTP to HTTPS redirection in OWA 2013. This means that users only need to enter the URL for the OWA 2013 server or load balancer to gain access to OWA. For example, a user can enter webmail.contoso.com...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, May 23 2013
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, CU1
Fixing TEL links with Lync 2013 on Windows 8 with Chrome

If you run both Lync 2013 and Chrome on Windows 8 you will find that TEL links open with Chrome instead of the Lync client. TEL links are hyperlinks used by Lync for one-click dialing. For example: tel:14155551212 Here's how to fix it: Open an elevated...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Wed, Apr 24 2013
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Lync 2013
Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Stops Transport During Prerequisite Check

I was hoping this issue would be resolved before Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 was released, but apparently not. This only affects upgrades from Exchange 2013 RTM to RTM CU1. During the installation of Exchange 2013 RTM CU1, setup runs a prerequisite check on...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Tue, Apr 2 2013
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Exchange 2013, CU1
Exchange 2013 Health Check Monitors and Journaling

Exchange 2013 includes built-in health monitors that monitor the health of system resources. Microsoft calls this new process "Managed Availability". The Exchange 2013 Server Health and Performance topic on TechNet says, "Exchange 2013...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Dec 6 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, PowerShell, Security, Exchange 2013, Journaling
Script to Force Download of the Lync 2013 Address Book

In a previous article I wrote a script that forces Lync 2010 clients to update the Lync Server 2010 address book. The Lync 2013 client not only changes the location where the address book is stored on the local machine, but changes the address book file...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Tue, Dec 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, scripts, Lync 2013
Working with Hi-Res Photos in Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013

Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 now have the ability to use high-resolution photos for users to view photos of their contacts and to make their own photos available to others. Usually these photos were stored as part of the user's thumbnailPhoto attribute...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Sun, Dec 2 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, scripts, Office 2013, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013
Configuring Unique Receive Connector SMTP Banners in Exchange Server

My best practice is to create dedicated receive connectors in Exchange for each receive purpose. For example, I'll create one receive connector for inbound SMTP email from the Internet or from inbound gateway servers and another for internal application...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Fri, Nov 16 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, Exchange, troubleshooting, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2007
How to Configure Public and Private Computer Settings in OWA 2013

The new "streamlined user interface" in Exchange 2013 no longer allows users to select whether they are using a public or private computer to access Outlook Web App. By default, OWA 2013 assumes your are using a private computer and uses the...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Sun, Oct 28 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Exchange 2013, OWA 2013
RPC Client Encryption in Exchange 2013

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...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Sat, Oct 27 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, Exchange, troubleshooting, Outlook, Exchange 2013
Allowing Messages to be Sent to Recipients of Internal and External Relay Domains

If you have Exchange 2010 Edge Transport servers in your environment you probably have Recipient Filtering configured to " Block messages sent to recipients that do not exist in the directory ". This setting configures the Edge Transport server...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Oct 25 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Exchange 2010
How to Boot Directly into Desktop with Windows Server 2012

I love Windows Server 2012, I really do. But who's bright idea was it to boot to the "Modern UI" (aka, Metro) instead of the Windows Desktop? There's really no reason for this, so I wrote a PowerShell script that configures Windows Server...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Oct 18 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, PowerShell, scripts, Windows Server 2012
Exchange 2010 DAG Always Replicates from Active Database

Today's article is a tidbit of information, but important to call out for larger scale DAG deployments. Exchange 2010 always uses the active database in the DAG as the source for log shipping during normal replication. That means that if you have...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Wed, Aug 29 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, High Availability, Exchange 2010, Disaster Recovery
Exchange 2010 SP2 Roll Up 4 Does Not Install - Error Code 1603

Event 1024 MSiInstaller - Error code 1603 I had an interesting problem installing Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 4 (UR4) on servers that have never had issues installing updates before. When I tried to install SP2 UR4 on the Edge Transport or typical...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Tue, Aug 21 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, PowerShell, Exchange 2010, SP2
How to Enable Notifications for Pending Certificate Requests

You can configure a Windows Certification Authority certificate template to require CA certificate manager approval, as shown below. With this configuration autoenrollment is disabled and the CA Manager must approve the certificate request before the...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Jul 12 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, certificates, PKI, Windows
How to Enable Logging for RPC Client Access Throttling in Exchange 2010

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...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Jul 12 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Outlook, Exchange 2010
Improvements to the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer

The Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA) has to be one of the best troubleshooting tools that the Exchange product team has ever produced. It's a one-stop shop that allows you to test remote connectivity to an Exchange organization using...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Tue, Jul 3 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, Exchange, troubleshooting, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Exchange 2003
How to Seed an Exchange 2010 Database from a Particular Source

Normally when you seed (copy) an Exchange database in a DAG, the source is the active database. This may not be efficient if the source database is across the WAN. This article explains how to seed from a different source, preferably a passive copy in...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, May 10 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, High Availability, Exchange 2010
How to Fix Legacy GAL Segmentation Issues in Exchange 2010

I'm working for a customer who is migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. The customer used "old school" GAL segmentation to create different address lists and Default Global Address Lists (GALs) for some users. Prior to Exchange...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, May 10 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, Exchange, troubleshooting, Exchange Cached Mode, Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture Tool

It's time to harvest those PST files PST files are the plague of most managed networks and the bane of most email administrators. It also clearly demonstrates that if you don't have an email policy (and email management strategy to back it up...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Mon, Jan 30 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, Office 365, archiving, Exchange 2010

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