Standalone Autodiscover test

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

A guy called Kip Ng has posted a nice multi-part blog on Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta hosting deployment. An interesting blog is part 9 where he not only looks at Autodiscover, but also reveals a self-made standalone tool to test Autodiscover. This is great when you want to test Autodiscover but don’t have access to testexchangeconnectivity.com or your testing internally and don’t have Outlook to do the CTRL-right-click trick for running Test E-Mail AutoConfiguration.

The tool is really neat and runs in interactive mode when you don’t specify any parameters. More info on usage is contained in the blog article here. You can download AutodiscoverTest.exe directly here.

Exchange Help Files Updated

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange Help (.CHM) files on the Microsoft Download Center have been updated for Exchange 2007 Sp3, Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta. Handy if you’re on the road or in a data center without internet connection.

You can download the help files from the following locations:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Help

Exchange 2010 SP1 Protocol Documentation 7.0

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange 2010 protocol documentation set has been updated to version 7.0. This version is for “Exchange Server 2010 SP1 RTM”. The documentation describes in detail each protocol used by Microsoft Exchange Server. You can retrieve the individual documents or the complete set in one archive here.

Firefox & Exchange 2010 Critical Error

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

After updating Firefox today I encountered the following error when trying to work with the Exchange Control Panel in Exchange 2010 RTM:

Going by the message, “Permission denied for .. to get property Windows.frameElement from”, it looks like a cross-site frame protection issue. I don’t know if the update is responsible for this (Firefox 3.6.8) or this is also the behaviour of earlier Firefox versions. I checked it against IE and that has no issue.

So far for multi-browser support.

Exchange schema versions overview

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

As a follow-up on the Exchange 2003 SP3 / Exchange 2010 RTM installation issue, I tried to collect information on the Exchange schema versions provided through Active Directory. This information is available after preparing the forest or domain for a certain Exchange version level.