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Michel de Rooij, with over 25 years of mixed consulting and automation experience with Exchange and related technologies, is a consultant for Rapid Circle. He assists organizations in their journey to and using Microsoft 365, primarily focusing on Exchange and associated technologies and automating processes using PowerShell or Graph. Michel's authorship of several Exchange books and role in the Office 365 for IT Pros author team are a testament to his knowledge. Besides writing for Practical365.com, he maintains a blog on eightwone.com with supporting scripts on GitHub. Michel has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup 2

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Microsoft released Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB972076). This update raises Exchange 2007 version number to 8.2.234.1.

Here’s the list of changes included in this rollup (kb972076):

  1. 961525 Exchange Server 2003 may generate duplicate journal reports in a mixed Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 environment
  2. 969230 The “age limits” function of a public folder do not work as expected in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  3. 969948 A Computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access Server (CAS) role installed becomes slow when a user tries to open a folder that contains many items
  4. 970817 An appointment is displayed incorrectly as an all-day event if you use a mobile device to synchronize the calendar in Exchange Server 2007
  5. 971177 The Auto Attendant ‘Business Hours’ schedule is not updated in Exchange Server 2007 when the DST setting is changed
  6. 971349 Exchange Server 2007 users intermittently cannot access an Exchange Server 2003 user’s Free/Busy information in Office Outlook 2007
  7. 971889 When Unified Messaging-enabled users call Outlook Voice Access on Exchange Server 2007 to play voice mails messages, there is a delay before the voice mail message is played
  8. 972705 The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 log or database experiences abnormal growth
  9. 972744 When a user sends e-mail messages to a remote domain, some e-mail messages are queued on an Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server or Edge server
  10. 973165 A return address is split into two separate and incomplete addresses when a recipient replies to a specific message in Exchange 2007
  11. 973486 Some message parts are not readable when Exchange Server 2007 must convert the message part encoding from binary or from 8 bit to 7 bit
  12. 973969 Incorrect exceptions are generated for a recurring iCalendar message when an Exchange Server 2007 server processes an SMTP message that contains the iCalendar message part
  13. 974155 OWA does not highlight misspelled words in an Exchange Server 2007 CAS proxy environment
  14. 974161 Some attendees cannot receive a meeting cancellation notification when the appointment recurrence pattern is changed by using EWS in Exchange Server 2007
  15. 974312 Unread messages are marked as “read” when Exchange Server 2007 processes the EXAMINE command
  16. 974344 You still receive an error message when you run the Test-OwaConnectivity command after you apply hotfix KB957485 in Exchange Server 2007
  17. 974401 Store sessions are not released when you run the Add-PublicFolderClientPermission cmdlet or the Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission cmdlet in public folders on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007
  18. 974450 A new accepted domain that is added does not work in an Exchange Server 2007 organization
  19. 974679 Returned folder names include a question mark when you check the folder names of an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox
  20. 974775 The EdgeTransport.exe process crashes intermittently on an Exchange Server 2007 server
  21. 974843 Exchange Server 2007 performance counter “Messages queued for submission” shows incorrect value
  22. 974897 You receive an NDR you try to send messages through your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 account
  23. 974946 Exchange Server 2007 OWA users receive an error message when the users change the display line for the search results on the address books
  24. 974999 The “Task Owner” field is not set when you create a task in Outlook Web Access
  25. 975050 A call transfer fails by using key mapping in a mixed Exchange Server 2007 UM server and OCS 2007 environment
  26. 975165 EWS proxying requests fail after you run Availability Service requests in a CAS to CAS proxying scenario in Exchange Server 2007
  27. 975213 You cannot log on to your mailbox and you receive an error in an Exchange server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 coexist environment
  28. 975255 Event 2104 and event 2147 are continuously logged in an Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) environment
  29. 975404An attachment of a meeting request cannot be opened when you use a CDO application to accept a meeting request in Exchange Server 2007
  30. 975844 The misspelled word of a message loses its custom format when an Exchange Server 2007 user writes the message in OWA
  31. 975903 The RemoveDelegate operation of EWS fails, and then a “500 internal server” error response and event ID 4999 are logged in an Exchange Server 2007 server
  32. 975916 The custom form of a meeting request is removed in the recipients’ calendar in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  33. 975918 When an IMAP4 client sends a FETCH (bodystructure) request to a server that is running the Exchange Server 2007 IMAP4 service, a corrupted response is sent as a reply
  34. 975946 An S/MIME message is not verified and is rejected when BizTalk Server 2006 uses the Exchange Server 2007 version of ExSMime.dll to parse MIME messages
  35. 975990 Messages that have duplicate message IDs are deleted when they are archived to an Exchange 2007 mailbox
  36. 976025 The free/busy information of an Exchange Server 2007 user is not displayed
  37. 976106 Microsoft Exchange Transport services crashes with StackOverflowException when Message Journaling is enabled on Exchange Server 2007
  38. 976107 You receive the warning “Failed to update recipient” when you run the Update-addresslist cmdlet in Exchange Management Shell on Exchange Server 2007
  39. 976137 Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging incorrectly plays a nonbusiness hours greeting when someone call during holiday
  40. 976195 You cannot edit a transport rule if one or more of the recipient addresses are disabled or removed in an Exchange Server 2007 server
  41. 976653 The Cluster Administrator shows that the mount operation fails and error 1003 is logged even though the database is mounted in an Exchange Server 2007 CCR or in a SCC environment
  42. 976787 The Calendar Month View displays a numeric date and not an abbreviated month name when you set the Regional Settings to Japanese or to Korean in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2007
  43. 976794 When you edit an e-mail message in OWA, the font changes to the default Internet Explorer font
  44. 976946 The message delivery time is incorrect when you send e-mail messages by using an IMAP4 client together with the APPEND command in Exchange Server 2007
  45. 977085 An incorrect value for DumpsterMessagesDeleted is reported in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  46. 977091 The time for an updated meeting request is incorrectly shown in an exception instance of a recurring meeting request on an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  47. 977181 The EXOLEDB component is not initialized successfully when you start Exchange Information Store Service on an Exchange Server 2007 server
  48. 977223 A move operation on a folder fails when the “ptagProvisionedFid” attribute is invalid in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  49. 977261 One or more errors occur when you set the Message Access logging level to Expert in an Exchange Server 2007 SP2 server
  50. 977355 Non-ASCII characters in a display name of a forwarded message are shown with “?” when the display name of a contact is in East Asia characters in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
  51. 977412 Error message when you use the WebDAV protocol to connect to an Exchange Server 2007 server: “Error 1000”
  52. 977425 The “Proxy server name” field is incorrectly shown in OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 CAS-to-CAS proxy environment
  53. 978593 Windows Server 2008 VSS backup plug-in fails to backup Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 databases that reside on a volume mount point

To download the x64 or x86 version of the patch click here.

I’ve updated the Exchange versions, builds and dates table accordingly. You can find it here.

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Role Calculator update

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The Microsoft Exchange Team released an update of the (take a deep breath) Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator. The latest version is 3.2 and it includes new features, improvements as well as some fixes. Here are some of the changes since 1.2:

  • Hub Transport & Client Access Server core calculations;
  • Possibility to change the number of databases;
  • Support for 2-node site resilient DAGs;
  • 1 & 6 core options;
  • RAID 5 & 6 non-selectable for low-RPM drives;
  • Conditional formatting to warn for misconfigurations.

For the complete changelog consult the version changes sheet. Note that the new calculator doesn’t support the Active/Active scenario. When required, it is suggested to use two calculation files:

  1. One for the Primary site using the Seconday site as Disaster Recovery site;
  2. One for the Secondary site with the Primary site as Disaster Recovery site.

To download the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator
v3.2 click here.

ForeFront TMG BPA released

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Today, Microsoft released the Forefront Threat Management Gateway Best Practices Analyzer, or ForeFront TMG BPA for short. Like other Best Practice Analyzer tools, this tool is to analyze the configuration and health of systems, based on predetermined best practices rules. The tool reports any issues, after which you can take action. Note that the installation also contains a tool, titles BPA2Visio, to (as you can probably guess) generate Visio drawings using the information found in TMG. BPA2Visio requires a Visio installation. You can download ForeFront TMG BPA, which is labeled version 8.0.1, here.

Be advised that TMG BPA only works on TMG, not on ISA installations. For ISA analysis, use ISA BPA which can be downloaded here.

Quest product updates for Exchange 2010

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Only four days after BinaryTree announced their Notes migration product update, Quest announced and released an update of their Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange (NME) product today. NME version 4.2, now with Exchange 2010 support, supports Notes to Exchange/Exchange Online migrations. NME is part of Quest’s suite of Lotus/Notes migration products, which also contains products to support Notes to Sharepoint and SameTime to OCS migrations.

You can find the press release here, more information on Notes Migrator for Exchange can be found here.

Exchange 2010 DAG port

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The Technet site contains a nice reference to all ports used by Exchange 2010 and its various roles, as well as an overview of the firewall rules created by Exchange 2010’s setup. Very handy when you need to provide IP and port information to the network people.

One port which stands out from the rest is the port used for DAG log shipping and seeding, which is 64327 by default. Looking back at Exchange 2007 this is good; the port is static and DAGs use regular TCP, where CCR/SCR in Exchange 2007 uses 445 for log shipping (over SMB) and a dynamic port for seeding. And if it’s two things some network people hate it’s SMB and dynamic ports. On the other hand, 64327 in the dynamic range defined by IANA; according to IANA dynamic ports cannot be registered (claimed).

Fortunately, the port can be changed when required. To change the port for a DAG use the Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet with the ReplicationPort parameter like this, where <n> can be any number between 1 and 65535:

Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAGID -ReplicationPort <n>.

Note that Exchange will not adjust the Windows Firewall rules accordingly, so you need to create a firewall exception on each DAG member to make replication work. Even better, you should do this before changing the DAG port to prevent interrupting the replication longer than necessary.