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Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 5-v2 installation error 80070643

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 14/12/2012 - 12:21 | ,
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If during installation of Rollup 5-v2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 you receive error 80070643, it’s caused by WMF 3.0 (Windows Management Framework 3.0).

Windows Management Framework 3.0 is installed with following windows updates for Microsoft Windows 2008 or Windows 7  (KB2506146 and KB2506143)

So before installation of Rollup 5-v2 check and uninstall these KB2506146 and KB2506143 and WMF 3.0

 

Also remember to run installation of any Rollup with  elevated privileges Run as Administrator

 

Exchange Server 2010 and 2007 Issues with Windows Updates KB2506146 and KB2506143

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 14/12/2012 - 12:01 | ,
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Watch for Windows Updates KB2506146 oraz KB2506143 and error

Exchange Server 2010 or Exchange 2007

 

Microsoft recently released updates KB2506146 and KB2506143 for operating systems Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

If you have Microsoft Exchange 2010 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 don’t install these updates.

Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2007 have some issues with these updates KB2506146 and KB2506143.

These updates will install Windows Management Framework 3.0 with PowerShell 3.o which is not supported by Exchange Server 2010 nor 2007.

You can read about updates here:

  • KB2506143 is the WMF 3.0 update for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1;
  • KB2506146 is the WMF 3.0 update for Windows Server 2008 SP2.

 

After you install these updates, your Exchange Server 2010 or 2007 system can be unavailable or unusable. It also include workstations with Windows 7 and Exchange Management Tools.

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Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (KB2787763) and Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2746157)

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 12/12/2012 - 09:35 |
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Microsoft released new updates for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3

 

Rollup 8 for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 you can download here:

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2787763)

Update rollup information:

Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

 

 

Rollup 9 for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3 you can download here:

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Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2785908)

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 11/12/2012 - 20:04 |
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Today 12/11/2012 Microsoft released Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2

After you install this Rollup 5-v2 you will update Exchange Server 2010 SP2 version number to 14.2.328.10

This update resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 since the software was released.

As you remember last version of Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP2 caused problems with DAG, we wrote about this here:

Exchange 2010 SP2 Error after upgrading to Rollup 5

 

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Search-Mailbox delete emails sent to Distribution Group

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 11/12/2012 - 05:44 |
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When someone will send email to wrong distribution group you can easly delete this email using Search-Mailbox CMDlet.

All you need it’s to get distribution group members and run for each of them search-mailbox.

Below you can find example how to remove email sent to distribution group Important_DL     with subject Confidential Report.

Get-DistributiongroupMember Important_DL | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery subject:"Confidential Report" -DeleteContent -Force:$TRUE

 

Above command will delete email with subject Confidential Report from users mailboxes which are members of Important_DL distribution group.

You can also use others attribute to define email properties to delete.

Below you can find more properties which you can use:

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Search-Mailbox kind Advanced Query Syntax AQS

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 10/12/2012 - 06:08 |
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While you are using Search-Mailbox to find, delete or to copy items from mailbox you can use Advanced Query Syntax parameter to define what kind of items you are looking for.

Advanced Query Syntax  helps users to better define and narrow their searches.

Following AQS parameters we can use to narrow search:

  • File kinds: folders, documents, presentations, pictures and so on.
  • File stores: specific databases and locations.
  • File properties: size, date, title and so on.
  • File contents: keywords like “project deliverables,” “AQS,” “blue suede shoes,” and so on.

 

For Exchange Search-Mailbox CMDlet we can easily use following parameters from File kinds:

File Type:   Example 
 Contacts kind:contacts
 E-mail kind:email
 Instant Messenger conversations kind:im
 Meetings kind:meetings
 Tasks kind:tasks
 Notes kind:notes

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Windows Server 2012 (RTM Edition) free ebook

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 06/12/2012 - 18:32 |
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Mitch Tulloch has updated his very popular free ebook on Windows Server 2012 based on the RTM version: Introducing Windows Server 2012 (RTM Edition)

You can download this ebook for free with formats: PDF, MOBI, EPUB.

Introducing Windows Server 2012 (RTM Edition) contains 5 sections which describing:

  • Virtualization and cloud solutions
  • Availability
  • Provisioning and storage management
  • Security and scalability
  • Infrastructure options
  • Server configuration and administration

use links below to download one or all of the available formats.

PDF – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – PDF ebook

EPUB – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – ePub format

MOBI – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – MOBI format (for Kindle)

Exchange Server Tools

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 06/12/2012 - 06:48 |
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Very often we are looking for some tools to make Microsoft Exchange Server administration easier for as.
If you don’t know where to find useful tools for Microsoft Exchange Server check this Microsoft Wiki site:

Exchange Server Tools

You can find there many tools to help you designing, planning, managing and reporting with yours Exchange Servers.

Below you can find few of this tools:

 

Exchange Server 2010 mass export mailboxes to pst file

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 05/12/2012 - 03:03 | ,
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Last time we wrote how to export mailbox from Exchange 2010 to pst file and import items from pst file to Exchange 2010 mailbox.

Exchange 2010 export import mailboxes

Now we will explain how to export few mailboxes at once from Exchange 2010.

When you want to export few mailboxes at once to .pst files you have to get aliases of those mailboxes and then run New-MailboxExportRequest in ForEach loop.

Below we present few examples how to export mailboxes with specified conditions:

To export mailboxes from specified mailbox database use:

ForEach ($mbx in (Get-Mailbox -Database DatabaseName)) {
 New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $mbx -FilePath "\\server\share_pst\${$mbx.Alias).pst" 
}

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Exchange 2010 export import mailboxes

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 04/12/2012 - 06:37 |
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Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2010 changed mailboxes import export to .pst file.

After you install Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2010 you need to use new CMDlet’s to import or export mailboxes:

  • New-MailboxExportRequest - to export mailbox
  • New-MailboxImportRequest - to import mailbox

To be able to export or import mailbox you need to meet following requirements:

  • have Export Import RBAC rights
  • have network share where you will export mailbox to .pst file

 

Assigning needed rights to export import mailbox from Exchange 2010:

When you write New-MailboxExportRequest in EMS (Exchange Management Console) and you will receive error that this command is not recognized, it means you don’t have adequate permissions.

You have to add Mailbox Import Export role for specified user or security group.

This security group should be universal.

Below command will add necessary permissions for security group MBX_imp_exp:

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name "Import Export Mailbox Admins" -SecurityGroup "MBX_imp_exp" -Role "Mailbox Import Export"

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