Exchange

The certificate is invalid for Exchange Server usage

Here is some notes from a recent issue error that I encountered at a client with SSL certificates for an Exchange 2010 server. This error may be seen on Exchange Server 2010. It may occur even though the certificate is a public certificate, from a trusted provider e.g. GlobalSign, Verisign or anyone else. Although it is most often seen when using certificates from a private PKI infrastructure. This blog post will focus on the usage of …

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Exchange 2010 SP2 Announced

The Exchange Team has announced SP2 for Exchange 2010, it is scheduled for release in the second half of 2011. The SP2 includes the following major new features: Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini: A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature provides a simple text based interface to navigate the user’s mailbox and access to the global address list from …

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News about virtualization support of Exchange 2010

Great news from the Exchange team today. They have announced enhancements to the virtualization support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 running with SP1. With Exchange SP1 the following scenarios are now supported running under hardware virtualization: The Unified Messaging server role is supported in a virtualized environment. Combining Exchange 2010 high availability solutions (database availability groups (DAGs)) with hypervisor-based clustering, high availability, or migration solutions that will move or automatically failover mailbox servers that are …

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License requirements for Personal Archive and Retention Policies

The Office team has posted a nice overview of the needed licenses for using Exchange 2010 Personal Archive and Retention Policies. To use Personal Archive or retention policies requires a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 account with Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) and one of the following Microsoft Outlook licenses. Read their post here.