MSExchange.org Monthly Newsletter of August 2011 Sponsored by: Metalogix

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. Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer & Office 365

Welcome to the August 2011 edition of the MSE Newsletter! This month I want to talk about the famous Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool and more importantly the improvements that were recently made to this tool.

First off Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity analyzer is now the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer. The future direction for this tool is to incorporate more products as can be seen in the Figure 1 below. Because of this it really made sense to drop "Exchange" from the name. Bear in mind though, that there are still lots of strings where you'll see ExRCA or Exchange, I'm told this is being cleaned up in a future release.

Because the tool will support multiple products in the future, a new tabbed user-interface UI has been introduced.

Figure 1

So as you can see the tool now includes an Office 365 tab, which really makes sense in these days where thousands of customers will move from an on-premise Exchange solution to Office 365 (Exchange Online) in the cloud, which depending on the size of the on-premise Exchange environment and such isn't a simple task.

Let's try to switch to the Office 365 tab. As can be seen in the figure below, we get an additional option named "Microsoft Single Sign-On (BETA)", which can help customers with validating identity federated scenarios with Office 365.  Specifically, this new test targets the "Basic Authentication" federated scenario where a client sends credentials to Office 365 which in turn validates them against the on-premises ADFS server.

Figure 2

Although the remaining options under the Office 365 tab are named identically to those under the Exchange Server tab, they have been specifically developed to perform tests against Exchange 2010 Online which is part of Office 365.

The Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity analyzer tool made it so much easier to perform tests from the Internet against an on-premise Exchange solution and now the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer provides a similar experience for customers moving to the cloud.

Guess it's time for you to sign up for an Office 365 trial account right? You can do so here.

Until later,
Henrik Walther
Technology Architect/Writer/Vendor
MCM: Exchange 2007 | MVP: Exchange Architecture

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:     

• Single Item Recovery (Part 1)
• Deploying Lync Server 2010 (Part 2)
• Monitoring Exchange 2010 with OpsMgr 2007 R2 (Part 5) 
• Monitoring Exchange 2007 / 2010 with Powershell (Part 1) 
• Planning, Deploying, and Testing an Exchange 2010 Site-Resilient Solution sized for a Medium Organization (Part 13) 
• Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 4)
• Deploying Lync Server 2010 (Part 1)
• Monitoring Exchange 2010 with OpsMgr 2007 R2 (Part 4)
• Migrating Exchange Server 2010 Organization into the Private Cloud 
• Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 3)

4. KB Articles of the Month

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

Exchange Server 2010

• Description of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly manage certificates that are outside the role assignment scope in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Slow network or replication issues after you change the number of virus scanning API threads in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• "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
• You cannot save attachments in an email message by using OWA if the subject line contains special characters in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• The inline contents disposition is removed when you send a "Content-Disposition: inline" email message by using EWS in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Mailbox users who are migrated by using ILM 2007 cannot use the Options menu in OWA in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the Add-ADPermission command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope
• You cannot use the GetItem operation in EWS to retrieve properties of an email message in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• You cannot delete a mailbox folder that starts with a special character in its name by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Extra.exe crashes when it performs RPC activity checks against an Exchange Server 2010 server
• A device that uses Exchange ActiveSync cannot access mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 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
• The "Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol HTTP" cmdlet fails to test the Outlook Anywhere connectivity in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• Certain client-only message rules do not take effect on email messages that are saved as drafts in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• "ChangeKey is required for this operation" error message in Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
• URLScan and IIS7 Request Filtering features and Exchange Server
• TLS client authentication fails between Unified Communications peers with a logged Schannel warning 
• MAPI applications cannot access archive mailboxes in Recovery Databases
• How to use vCalendar in Outlook
• Resource Mailbox Configured to AutoAccept Does Not Process Meeting Requests Which Contain Code
• Inline UUEncoded attachments of email messages from a UNIX-based application are garbled or are unreadable
• You cannot use ECP to perform a wipe on a mobile phone in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
• "There are no items to show in this view." error message when you try to view a folder in Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• You cannot move a mailbox that contains a corrupted Search Folder in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• You cannot look up the free/busy information of a user who is located on an Exchange Server 2010 organization from another Exchange Server 2010 organization
• The "New-MailboxImportRequest" cmdlet does not import all messages in a .pst file in the ANSI format in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Event ID 1001 after you successfully install the Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging server role
• A space is missing in the subject line of a "Tentative" meeting response in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the "Update-FileDistributionService" command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope
• "GetUserOofSettings", "SetUserOofSettings" and "GetUserAvailability" operations do not support Exchange Impersonation on the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 schema
• Web browsers that are supported for Outlook Web App when it runs on Exchange Server 2010
• The copy or move operation on a folder that contains subfolders does not work as expected after you install Update Rollup 4 that is dated June 22, 2011 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 

Exchange Server 2007

• Description of Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
• URLScan and IIS7 Request Filtering features and Exchange Server
• TLS client authentication fails between Unified Communications peers with a logged Schannel warning
• The spelling checker does not work correctly in OWA when an S/MIME control is used and when SSL Offloading is enabled in Exchange Server 2007
• A UM auto attendant times out and generates an invalid extension number error message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3
• A mobile phone times out when you use ActiveSync to synchronize the calendar on the phone with an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox
• "Could not connect to a directory server" error message when you click the ?last page? button in the search results in Exchange Server 2007 OWA
• A meeting request series is deleted unexpectedly from the calendar in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• A mailbox is not shown in certain address lists after you run certain commands on an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox
• Public folder read/unread status is lost after a public folder on a second Exchange Server 2007 server is added as a replica folder
• How to use vCalendar in Outlook

Exchange Server 2003

• Event ID 459 may be logged after you perform a backup of an Exchange Server store in Exchange Server 2003 by using the NTBACKUP tool
• How to use vCalendar in Outlook
• Email based on Outlook custom form is sent with incorrect delivery date when mailbox is on Exchange Server 2003

5. MSExchange.org News of the Month

• Released: Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP1
• MCS UK UC Team Blog Re-Launched
• Why silently dropping mail is a bad idea
• So, You Want to Host Exchange?  
  

6. Ask Henrik Walther a question

QUESTION:

We're an enterprise organization running Exchange 2010 SP1. All Exchange 2010 SP1 Mailbox server are DAG members. We now need to change the IP subnet for one of the locations that contains several DAG member servers.

Would you kindly let us know how we should go about changing the IP address of these DAG member nodes?

ANSWER:

Well, you should simply be able to change the IP address of the DAG member servers to match the subnet. Also bear in mind that if you have set a static IP address for the DAG on the old subnet, you must assign an IP address from the new IP subnet. If the DAG is assigned an IP address via DHCP, you should make sure to create a new DHCP server scope so that the DAG can lease an IP address from the new IP subnet.

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