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Many will be upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 soon.  Many of you also have Blackberry Enterprise Server.  RIM has provided a pre-installation guide for Exchange 2010 here.  I wanted to touch on one of these pre-installation steps.  This is where we increase the maximum number of connections to the Address Book service.  The specific guide for this step is … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 SP1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)

Exchange 2010 SP1 changes the way Administrator Audit Logging (AAL) works to some degree.  To see how Exchange 2010 RTM Administrator Audit Logging works, check out a great article by my fellow MVP Neil Hobson here.  This article is not going to explain what AAL is, just what the changes are.In Exchange 2010 RTM, when you configured AAL, you had to specify what … [Read more...] about Changes in Exchange 2010 SP1 Administrator Audit Logging

Introduction and Database Activation Coordination (DAC) Support Exchange 2010 introduced a vast amount of changes to the High Availability model with the addition of the Database Availability Group (DAG).  Some features of the DAG are having up to 16 members, automatic database *over to another site as long as you still have quorum, and much more.  Exchange also … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Database Activation Coordination (DAC)

I recently wrote a Unified Messaging Provisioning Script and am providing it in two flavors; a simple version of it and the complex version of it.Simple Script Features (CSV Download)$DefaultPIN is exactly that.  The CSV has a PIN column which is empty by default.  If this CSV field is left blank for a given user, it will use the $DefaultPIN.  Otherwise, … [Read more...] about Exchange Unified Messaging Provisioning Scripts

When you create an RPC Client Access Array AFTER you have created Exchange 2010 databases, you need to go back to those existing databases and stamp them with the RPC Client Access Array FQDN.  That way, clients will use that RPC Client Access Array.  Otherwise, they won't.  On the other hand, if you create the RPC Client Access Array FQDN before you create your … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Databases and the RPCClientAccessServer Database Parameter