Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Rollup Update 1 is now Available

Yesterday the Exchange team released the Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010. This update includes new fixes for the following server roles: Client Access Mailbox Edge Server Hub Transport If you run Forefront for Exchange, remember to disable before the install and enable again, when install of RU1 is completed, see blog post below for more info. More info on the Exchange Blog: Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Download link: …

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MSDigest website update (makeover)

Hi everyone! I have given my blog (www.msdigest.net) a major update. It has been updated with a new theme. The new WordPress theme should give you a better overview of my posts and better view, when reading my posts. I have also had problems with the old RSS feeds, previously handled by Feedburner (now purchased by Google). So if any of you used to RSS feed my site, please update you feeds, as the old …

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Scripts for Public Folder Client Permissions Management in Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 ships with some powerful scripts for managing Public Folder Client Permissions.

These scripts only apply to servers running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010, you can not specify a server running older versions of Exchange Server, although the Public Folder hierarchy can still be on an Exchange 2003, in case you want to add additional replicas etc (see my previous post).

The scripts are located together with the Exchange binaries, under: C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerScripts.

The scripts recursively goes through and updates your public folders replicas for every public folder in a hierarchy that you specify.

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Scripts for Public Folder Replica Management in Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 ships with some powerful scripts for Public Folder Replica administration and management.

These scripts only apply to servers running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010, you can not specify a server running older versions of Exchange Server, although the Public Folder hierarchy can still be on an Exchange 2003, in case you want to add additional replicas etc (see my previous post).

The scripts are located together with the Exchange binaries, under: C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerScripts.

The scripts recursively goes through and updates your public folders replicas for every public folder in a hierarchy that you specify.

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Set additional servers as Public Folder Replicas

In most transition phases from Exchange 2003, it is often a tedious process of adding the new Exchange 2010 servers (it also works for Exchange 2007), as additional Replicas on all existing Public Folders. Previous using bulk operations with PFDAVADMIN was the fastest way forward. But why not use the script tools that comes with Exchange 2007 and 2010, it is even faster and more simple to use. AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 is in my opinion THE tool …

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