Exchange 2003 end of support

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I recently had a call with Microsoft Product Support services on an Exchange case at a large enterprise customer and the bottom of their email was mention of: This is coming up quickly, and I have to admit I was not following this date.  As IT people we sometimes let certain products go out of support, I'd say the email system should not be one of them and it's definitely time to move forward to either Exchange 2010 or Office 365. If you need assistance getting this project done quickly or Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU7

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Exchange 2013 CU7 (Cumulative Update 7) was released on 12-9-2014.  Note: CU7 has recently been replaced, click here for CU9.One feature we have heard about so far is: new ability to enable Shadow-Redundancy of the Offline Address Book in.  This new CU7 feature will make it so that Outlook clients can download the OAB from multiple servers instead of from one single server. A recent case with Microsoft support brought to my attention to notable fixes in the CU7 release: Database dismounting Read more [...]

“Only one PublicFolderMigration job is allowed for an organization” when migrating to Exchange 2013

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Issue: You are attempting to re-run a previously failed public folder migration request and receive the error "Only one PublicFolderMigration job is allowed at a time for an organization." Resolution: You need to clear the previous migration request that failed by running the following command: Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest If you find there are failed requests, remove them: Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest | Remove-PublicFolderMigrationRequest -Confirm:$false At this point you may Read more [...]

“Status: Failed” running New-PublicFolderMigrationRequest on Exchange 2013

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Issue: when verifying your public folder migration from Exchange 2007/2010 to 2013 you get a ‘status failed’. Background: In order to check the status of the migration request run the following commands: Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest More verbose detail: Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest | Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequestStatistics -IncludeReport | Format-List Your results may contain the following: Report: Fatal error DataValidationException has occurred Status : Failed Error: Read more [...]

How to Setup Ironport LDAP with Active Directory

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One of the first things that should be done on a new IronPort Email Security Appliance (ESA) is configuring LDAP authentication to Active Directory. 0) create an AD account to be used for LDAP authentication (think of it like a service account, it needs to special rights) 1) Open your Cisco IronPort ESA web management and click System Administration > LDAP 2) Check 'Using Active Directory Wizard' and click 'Add LDAP Server Profile' 3) -Enter a name for the profile you can call Read more [...]