MSExchange.org Monthly Newsletter of January 2011 Sponsored by: Sherpa Software

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 2010 Online Archive Client Support

Welcome to the January 2011 edition of the MSE Newsletter! I hope all of you had a great holiday. This month I want to talk about which Exchange clients currently support the Exchange 2010 Online Archive. That is, from which clients the archive is visible and accessible.

Outlook Web App 2010

As long as you run Exchange 2010 RTM or later, you can access the online archive via Outlook Web App 2010 (OWA 2010).

Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 RTM and later has full support for the online archive.

Outlook 2007

Just like Outlook 2010 you can access the online archive via Outlook 2007. It’s important to note though that you must be running Outlook 2007 SP2 with Office 2007 Cumulative Update for December 2010 or later.

Outlook 2003

You cannot access the online archive from this version and Microsoft will not provide an update.

What about Outlook 2011 for Mac (Entourage)?

Outlook 2011 for Mac (formerly known as Entourage) and previous versions of the Mac client do not include support for accessing the online archive mailbox. However the Mac Business group is looking at supporting this with a future update but there's no confirmation or time line though.

What about Exchange ActiveSync Devices?

None of the devices supporting the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol have support for accessing the online archive mailbox yet. This includes Windows Phone 7 and iPhone 4 based devices.

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

2. Order Henrik Walther's Exchange Server 2007 book

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:

• Video: Anti-spam on the Hub Transport Server
• Managing Distribution Groups in Exchange Server (Part 2)
• Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 2)
• Planning, Deploying, and Testing an Exchange 2010 Site-Resilient Solution sized for a Medium Organization (Part 4)
• SMTP Routing in Exchange 2010 (Part 1)
• Managing Distribution Groups in Exchange Server (Part 1)
• Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 1)
• How to migrate from Exchange 2007 CCR to Exchange 2010 DAG on existing hardware (Part 1)         
  

4. KB Articles of the Month

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

Exchange Server 2010

• Cannot send or receive e-mail messages behind a Cisco PIX or Cisco ASA firewall
• When trying to replicate the public folder content to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 it will not replicate
• Read receipts cannot be moved into an online archive folder when you use Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010
• In Microsoft Exchange 2010 Turkish version New-MoveRequest fails with Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed
• In Microsoft Exchange 2010 Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer fails with "The network path was not found"
• You cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2010 RTM after you install Update Rollup 2, Update Rollup 3, or Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010
• Description of Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release to Manufacturing
• You cannot create a new Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox database in a multiple domain environment
• The published Free/Busy information for a mailbox is displayed for the default period of two months after you have configured a longer period in Outlook
• The Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router does not create the e-mail messages in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM queue
• Description of Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• A mailbox database copy stays in a Failed state after a "-1022" disk I/O error occurs in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• An IMAP4 client cannot send an email message that has a large attachment in a mixed Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2003 environment
• Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• The MSExchangeTransport.exe process crashes or stops responding on a Hub Transport server that has Exchange Server 2010 SP1 installed
• The "LegacyExchangeDN" attribute is not used for an embedded message when the message is sent to internal recipients in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• Event ID 3, Event ID 1309 and Event ID 108 are logged on an Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server

Exchange Server 2007 

• Cannot send or receive e-mail messages behind a Cisco PIX or Cisco ASA firewall
• No event is logged by the Mail Submission service when an Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server is marked as Inactive
• Isinteg.exe does not fix certain errors in public folder replication tables in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• The published Free/Busy information for a mailbox is displayed for the default period of two months after you have configured a longer period in Outlook
• The Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router does not create the e-mail messages in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM queue
• The Exchange Information Store service stops responding when you perform a search operation on an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox in Outlook

Exchange Server 2003

• Cannot send or receive e-mail messages behind a Cisco PIX or Cisco ASA firewall
• How to troubleshoot mail relay issues in Exchange Server 2003 and in Exchange 2000 Server
• An e-mail message may not be formatted correctly when an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox user sends an e-mail message to an external user
• The published Free/Busy information for a mailbox is displayed for the default period of two months after you have configured a longer period in Outlook
• The Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router does not create the e-mail messages in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM queue

5. MSExchange News of the Month

• Complete Guidance on Building a Hosted Wave 14 Platform Published
• Publishing Outlook Anywhere Using NTLM Authentication With Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG White Paper Released
• My LCR / CCR / SCR / DAG database copy is in dirty shutdown state...
• Office 365 Beta: Completing provisioning of archive in the cloud from your on-premises Exchange 2010 server
• Load Balancing Exchange 2010 Transport servers content now in the TechNet documentation
• Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoftˇ MVP Award!
• Special Edition Geek Out with Perry - TechEd Europe 2010
• The MSExchange.org Team wishes you a Happy New Year
• Exchange 2010 Online Archive Mailbox Client Support
• Exchange Queue & A: Migrations and Transitions
  

6. Ask Henrik Walther a question

QUESTION:

I want to learn more about how to load balance Exchange 2010 Hub and Edge Transport servers. Also, is it possible to load balance them using Windows NLB or a hardware load balancer?

ANSWER:

So, all the way back since Exchange 2007 SP1, load balancing both Hub and Edge Transport servers using Windows NLB or hardware based solution was supported. Back when Exchange 2007 SP1 was released, I even wrote this article, which explains how you load balance a set of Exchange 2007 Hub Transport servers using Windows NLB.

Up until now this specific topic was missing from the Exchange documentation on TechNet. Alright the Exchange 2007 documentation contained 4-5 lines that briefly mentioned that it was supported but step by step instructions on how to actually do it were missing.

As a Microsoft vendor one of the things I do is to help write some of the more advanced topics that the Exchange User Education team wants to include in the Exchange 2010 TechNet documentation. My last assignment was to get some documentation written about how to properly load balance Hub and Edge Transport servers. A few weeks ago this content was finally published:

• Understanding SMTP Failover and Load Balancing in Transport (more specifically the load balancing sections)
• Configure Windows Network Load Balancing for Hub Transport Servers
• Configure Hardware Load Balancing for Hub Transport Servers

After going through the "old" Exchange 2007 article here on MSExchange.org and the above TechNet links you should get a good understanding on how to approach this.

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