Microsoft Release Update Rollup 5 (UR5) for Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Microsoft has released the UR 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 on 23 August 2011.

Issues that the update rollup resolves 

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• 2275156  The inline contents disposition is removed when you send a "Content-Disposition: inline" email message by using EWS in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2499044  You cannot save attachments in an email message by using OWA if the subject line contains special characters in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2509306  Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2010 environment 
• 2514766   A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the Add-ADPermission command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope 
• 2529715  Slow network or replication issues after you change the number of virus scanning API threads in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• 2536704  Mailbox users who are migrated by using ILM 2007 cannot use the Options menu in OWA in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2537094  French translation errors occur when you edit a response to a meeting request by using OWA in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
• 2555800   You cannot use the GetItem operation in EWS to retrieve properties of an email message in an Exchange Server 2010 environment 
• 2555850   You cannot delete a mailbox folder that starts with a special character in its name by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment 
• 2556096  The columns in the .csv logging file are not lined up correctly when you perform a discovery search on a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556107  The columns in the .csv logging file are not lined up correctly when you perform a discovery search on a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment 
• 2556133   A device that uses Exchange ActiveSync cannot access mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2010 environment 
• 2556156  Extra.exe crashes when it performs RPC activity checks against an Exchange Server 2010 server
• 2556352  "ChangeKey is required for this operation" error message in Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556407  Certain client-only message rules do not take effect on email messages that are saved as drafts in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2559926   "There are no items to show in this view." error message when you try to view a folder by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2572958  The "Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol HTTP" command fails with an HTTP 401 error in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

Below is the URL to the download page for the UR5
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27193

Manual Configuration of Outlook for Exchange Online (Office 365)

Nowadays, everyone moves towards cloud. 

So, maybe someday your organization also plans towards cloud for your messaging system.

While in the coexist environment with your on-premise email server or other hosted email system, you might need the manual tweak/configuration at your migrated users in Office 365 for their Outlook connection before the autodiscover record is in place.

To manually configure Outlook:

1.       Obtain the required info from OWA:

a.        Log into OWA, in the upper-right corner, click the question mark (Help) icon and the click About.

b.       Locate and note the Exchange Client Access Server Name, Mailbox Server Name, and Host name.

2.       Create a new Outlook profile and choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types.

3.       Select Exchange and when prompted for the Exchange server you need to do a little detective work. Compare the values you noted above for Exchange Client Access Server Name and Mailbox Server Name. You should find that they both start with the same value. In my case they were HKNPRD0602CA011.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com and HKNPRD0602MB118.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com respectively. What you need is the part at the start that matches - in this case HKNPRD0602.

4.       Now, enter this value for the Exchange server and append .mailbox.outlook.com. Therefore, in my case the Exchange server was HKNPRD0602.mailbox.outlook.com.

5.       You can enter the user name as the user's display name, i.e. Megan Fox.

Exchange 2010 - DNS resolution between Parent and Child Domain

These two days working on the Exchange 2010 installation in child domain. To make sure the smooth installation, the name resolution (DNS) between Parent and Child domain must be configured properly.

Else, you might hit the error while installing the mailbox role such as below.

Even tried to uninstall the mailbox role, it will failed due to the system unable to resolve the root domain name resolution.

Hence, to make it right, it is just need to make sure the child domain DNS server has the secondary zone for the Parent domain DNS records. With that, the mailbox roles can be removed and installed perfectly without issue.

Mango

Looks like next year 2012 will be the war of foods vs robot .. Microsoft Mango is seems going to release very soon as the Internet world already spreading its leaked version, which is 7720 RTM Build.


See the below picture. It won thousand words.

Email missing? Cannot find in neither Junk folder nor Deleted Items as well?

If you someday somehow cannot find your email, even searched through your junk mail or deleted items also cannot find it, at last have to recover it using Outlook Recovered Deleted Items or even restore from your backup.

Then you will ask yourself, or the Email Administrator, why could this happened?

In your Outlook, there is a junk mail setting. Make sure your junk email setting is not enable the option of Permanently delete suspected junk e-mail instead of moving it to the Junk E-Mail folder.

Every email missing issue might not be due to this, however, it could be the reason.

So, please check. :)

First touch on the Office 365!

Changed!

My company just had a change last week. Is a long waiting from BPOS to Office 365 ! Finally.

The  login page URL is not hard to remember, --> https://login.microsoftonline.com

Below is the main page display after logon. On the left menu, it showed the administrative tasks, you can add users and security groups from there, manage the licenses and create the support ticket.

Recall back CCR failover for Exchange 2007.

In a recent project, do need to run the failover test for mailbox store/database at Exchange 2007. However, due to totally used to the UI on Exchange 2010 with the super easy DAG failover, therefore, in a short time, couldn't really locate where the exactly screen on Exchange 2007 Exchange Management Console (EMC) to run the CCR failover task for the mailbox store/database (in a CCR architecture).

Therefore, took me some times to search in the EMC and finally found it. Below are the screenshots that will lead you to perform the failover.

First, check the properties of the CCR cluster. Noticed that the Active DB and Quorum are located at node 1.

After that, right click again the CCR cluster, select "Manage Clustered Mailbox Server" from the right-click menu.

Wizard prompted, select the first action, which is "Move the clustered mailbox server to another node".