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Remote Connectivity Analyzer has been updated

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All of us, has properly gotten a call from someone whose Outlook client is having trouble connecting to their Exchange environment and a lot of us properly already known the infamous web based tool from Microsoft called Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA), which can be used to test external connections to your Exchange environment, for a lot of different client scenatios, such as Outlook Anywhere, ActiveSync etc. Microsoft have done a major updated their toolkit …

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Latest Exchange rollup updates available

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Something that went a bit unnoticed last week, the Exchange Team released the latest Exchange Rollup Updates, they are all available as downloads from Microsoft Download or from the Windows Update. Below is an overview of the latest Rollups: Exchange 2007 SP3: Update Rollup 8-v3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2778154) Build no. 8.3.279.6 (Release date: 13th Nov. 2012) Download the Exchange2007-KB2778154 package now Exchange 2010 SP1: Update Rollup 7-v3 for Exchange Server …

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Search for mails with Get-MessageTracking using wildcards

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Here are some updated field notes from a recent message tracking case. This post is also an update of a previous post about MessageTracking I made about a year ago.

Unfortunately the Tracking Log tool in Exchange Management Console (EMC) – does not allow the use of wildcard characters, when trying to search of all mails sent or received from a certain domain. EMC can only handle a specific user or list of users.

However using the Exchange Management Shell and the cmdlet Get-MessageTracking, you are able to use wildcards in your search.

Below I have listed two examples to search for all mails sent from the “msdigest.net” domain and received from the “msdigest.net”.

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Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 is now available on TechNet and MSDN

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Microsoft has now made the final version (RTM) wave 15 products available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. The following products are available for download: Exchange 2013 Lync 2013 SharePoint 2013 Office 2013 Visio 2013 Project 2013 General availability is still in Q1. Read more in my previous post: Wave 15 is now RTM More on www.technet.com or www.msdn.com for subscribers.

Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 Exams Announced

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Along with the RTM announcement of the Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 products, Microsoft is getting the Certification exams ready for both products, they are currently still in the  development (beta) stage. The Lync 2013 Exams will be released first, scheduled for 6th Nov 2012. Along with expected exam numbers: Exam 70-336:  Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Exam 70-337:  Enterprise Voice & Online Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 The two exams above, …

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