This post is just to outline 2 very useful articles to understand and use RBAC role model… 1- Daily operations and getting RBAC info (finding admin rights for a user, finding parameters, etc…) from our excellent and beloved Rhoderick Milne such ase in which RBAC role is a specific cmdlet (example, which RBAC role enable an … Continue reading Exchange (2010-2013) RBAC how-to – 2 useful links →

 Hi all, Here is the link to download Exchange 2013 CU8, as well as some useful links and useful information. DOWNLOAD link to the Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB3030080) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46373 Some notes from the Exchange Product Group Team as well http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/03/17/announcing-cumulative-update-8-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx Exchange 2013 CU8 – some limits updated for “modern” Public Folders http://blogs.technet.com/b/samdrey/archive/2015/03/18/exchange-2013-cu8-some-new-limits-for-modern-public-folders.aspx  List of issues fixed: … Continue reading Exchange 2013 CU8 published ! →

UPDATE: Microsoft released a FIX resolving this SSL vulnerability in our software ! MS15-031: Vulnerability in SChannel could allow security feature bypass: March 10, 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3046049 Hi all,   Here is a note about the impact of FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Key - CVE-2015-0204) vulnerability on Exchange (Microsoft Security Advisory 3046015 - Vulnerability in … Continue reading Quick note about the impact of FREAK SSL vulnerability on Exchange →

Update: added a slightly modified version of the script to dump these way quicker by using the -ADPropertiesOnly switch along with the Get-WhicheverVirtualDirectory commandlets - this switch doesn't work on Exchange 2007, only works on Exchange 2010 and 2013 (and hopefully Exchange 2016 ;-)) and only reads the URLs in the local GC instead of reading … Continue reading Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 – Powershell script to dump InternalURLs and ExternalURLs of basic Exchange services →

 Exchange 2010 SP3 RollUp 8 Version 2 (V2) is now released ! Link below.  Update on 12th December from the Exchange Team Blog:Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 8 has been re-released to the Microsoft download center resolving a regression discovered in the initial release. The update RU8 package corrects the issue which impacted users connecting … Continue reading Awareness update: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 – RU8 V2 is out ! →

 YaY, public version big jumping from v2.2 to v2.7 for many cool features and fixes, thanks Julian Burger, Microsoft Application Developper !Quote from the site:RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs or large server farms where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and … Continue reading Useful for your Lab and your production servers remote management – Remote Desktop Manager v2.7 is out ! →

  The security update MS014-066 was released last Tuesday with the normal patch Tuesday releases and very little mention was made of it.   It addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Secure Channel (SChannel) that is used to establish SSL connections.  If this vulnerability is exploited an attacker could run code remotely on servers and/or workstations … Continue reading Windows related Schannel vulnerability – since we are using HTTPS in many situations on Exchange Servers, I’m putting the information here as well. →

  Thanks Macster and Festivalman for this tip ! Before applying this TCP Ack solution, the below conditions must be met:- OWA connection and mail browsing is very fine, whereas an Outlook online mode (i.e. not cached mode) connectivity is quite sluggish when mailboxes are on Exchange 2013… - If OWA is slow as well, then the … Continue reading Outlook in Online mode is slow connecting to Exchange 2013 – A blog post from “Macster” and information from “Festivalman”, thanks guys ! →