MSExchange.org Monthly Newsletter of December 2009 Sponsored by: Red Gate

Welcome to the MSExchange.org newsletter by Henrik Walther, Exchange MVP, MCA: Messaging (Exchange Ranger) Apprentice, MCTS Windows Server 2008, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCSE 2003 Messaging/Security. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on Exchange Server. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: henrik@msexchange.org

1. Do your part in order to bring down CO2 - switch to Exchange 2010!

Welcome to the December edition of the MSE Newsletter! The very last newsletter for 2009! Christmas holidays are quickly approaching and many of us are rather busy these days, not only with new Exchange 2010 designs and deployments, but also with the planning for the Christmas holidays and finding those last Christmas presents for friends and family.

Personally, I am currently responsible for, or at least involved in, three different Exchange 2010 designs/deployments as I write this newsletter, and I must say that I see much more interest in this Exchange server version than what was the case with Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2003 for that matter. In addition, I have a few more Exchange 2010 projects coming my way in Q1 of next year, so things look good despite the global financial crisis. Now that I mentioned that damn crisis again, I have to say that it did, in some ways, also bring some positive things with it. For instance, it forces IT organizations to focus on possible ways of cutting down costs not only in the short but also in the long term. Especially when it comes to messaging and collaboration, Exchange 2010 seems to be tailor made for just that. Medium and large organizations, more specifically, can cut costs drastically by switching to Exchange 2010. To see how organizations that already have upgraded to Exchange 2010 have cut down costs, see the Exchange 2010 case studies over at the Microsoft Exchange website. By the way, please make sure you visit the case study page regularly as new case studies will be added over the next couple of months.

However, it is not only a matter of cutting down IT costs. As many of you know, I live with my family in Copenhagen, Denmark. As you probably also know, the Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) have been held in the Bella Center here in Copenhagen (or Hopenhagen as it has been referenced during the conference period!!) in the last couple of weeks. This conference is all about committing on taking serious action on climate change. Countries all over the world need to agree on an ambitious, global agreement that meets the challenge set by science. And this is where upgrading to Exchange 2010 comes into the picture. By upgrading to Exchange 2010, we can for instance use slower low cost disks for storage and have many more mailboxes stored on each Mailbox server in the organization. By bringing down the total number of Exchange servers in our infrastructure, we will do our part in order to bring down the total amount of power used by the messaging infrastructure within our organizations, and therefore also the amount of CO2.

Alright, that was what I had to share with you in this very last MSE Newsletter of 2009.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

Until next year,

Henrik Walther
Technology Architect/Writer
MCM: Exchange 2007 | MVP: Exchange Architecture
MCITP: EMA + EA | MCSE: M + S | TechNet Influent

Note:
Should you have any ideas for content in future editions of the MSExchange.org newsletter, you are more than welcome to shoot me an e-mail at Henrik@msexchange.org

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3. MSExchange.org Learning Zone Articles of Interest

We have a great group of articles in the Learning Zone that will help you get a handle on your most difficult configuration issues. Here are just a few of the newer and more interesting articles:

• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Part 5)
• Configuring the Native Exchange 2007 MP for OpsMgr 2007 R2 (Part 1) 
• Uncovering Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAGs) (Part 1) 
• Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 3)
• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Part 4)
• Uncovering the new Exchange 2010 Volume Snapshot (VSS) Plug-in (Part 2)
• Exchange Backup and Restore - Streaming and Volume Shadow Service (VSS) Techniques     
  

4. KB Articles of the Month

Below, you will find the Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 related KB articles that were published since the last MSE newsletter.

Exchange Server 2010

• Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010
• Exchange Server 2010 users cannot open certain attachments when they access their mailboxes by using Outlook Web App
• Meeting requests that are sent to a room mailbox are not processed in Exchange Server 2010
• Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in the Handler.dll that is located on an Exchange 2010 Client Access service server
• Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in Parser.dll on the Exchange Server 2010 CAS server
• The subject or body of a message that is hosted in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox is not set as expected
• The message body is inaccessible when the property conversion from PR_BODY_HTML to PR_BODY fails
• The body text of an e-mail message is invisible after you create exceptions for a recurring appointment or for a recurring meeting by using a CDO application together with Exchange Server 2010
• An E_FAIL error occurs when you create an exception to a meeting request by using a CDO application for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
• A folder name is not changed when you try to move and then rename the folder in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox by using the CopyFolder method of the IMAPIFolder interface
• The location of a meeting or an appointment is not updated on an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
• Update fails when you use a CDO application to update a recurrence task on Exchange Server 2010
• VSS backup process stops responding when you try to perform a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup for Exchange Server 2010 databases

Exchange Server 2007

• WebDav applications may experience problems when drivers force I/O operations to be performed asynchronously
• A return address is split into two separate and incomplete addresses when a recipient replies to a specific message in Exchange 2007
• Several tools in Toolbox center are not loaded after applying Exchange 2007 SP2 RU1

Exchange Server 2003

• WebDav applications may experience problems when drivers force I/O operations to be performed asynchronously
• December 2009 cumulative daylight saving time (DST) update for Exchange 2003 SP2
  

5. MSExchange News of the Month

• Exchange 2010 - A Closer Look
• Exchange 2010 and InterOrg (IORepl)  
  

6. Ask Henrik Walther a question

QUESTION:

We are currently planning an upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. We have many thousands of mailbox users and therefore we would like to take advantage of the new online mailbox move functionality that lets Exchange administrators move a mailbox during working hours, while the users still have functioning inboxes on their clients. However, we are a little unsure whether online mailbox moves are supported when upgrading from Exchange 2003.
Could you let us know whether this is possible or not?

ANSWER:

Unfortunately you cannot take advantage of online mailbox moves, when moving mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. This feature is only supported in scenarios where you move mailboxes from Exchange 2007 SP2 or Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2010. So unfortunately, it looks like you need to schedule your mailbox move to occur during non-working hours if you do not want to let it have an impact on the end-users.