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Unable to soft delete messages after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 14/03/2013 - 16:37 | ,
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Finally, Microsoft has confirmed that what we wrote and many users wrote on the forums.

Namely, Microsoft admits that after installing Rollup 6 for Exchange 2010 SP2 or after the installation of Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, there are problems with the removing some of e-mails using soft delete:

  1. Unable to soft delete messages that contain voice mail attachments.
  2. Unable to soft delete messages sent from FAX server, printer or scanner which have attachments (such as .PDF).
  3. issue occurs when you use Microsoft Outlook in Online mode or OWA

 

This issue does not happen with messages sent by a user instead of an application, or plain messages without attachments.

As workaround Microsoft recommends:

  1. Hard delete the message instead of soft deleting – to hard delete email using Microsoft Outlook, select the message and then press SHIFT+DELETE to delete it
  2. Use cached mode for Outlook – when using the cached mode of Outlook, the message can be soft deleted

 

All article is available here:

Unable to soft delete some messages after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3

 

 

 

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Microsoft Lync 2013 does not update status based on Outlook Calendar KB2804472

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 11/03/2013 - 02:02 | ,
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Lync2013From the beginning, when we installed the Microsoft Lync 2013 client, we had a problem with the fact that Lync 2013 does not update the status on the basis of meetings listed in the Outlook calendar.

The result of this was that we had to adjust the status of Lync 2013 client manually for Busy eg.: when a calendar appointment was entered, and then adjust it to Available, after appointment.

We tried different ways to resolve this problem, and make Lync 2013 to automatically update status: reinstall the Lync 2013 client, removing all data from the directory:

C:\Users\rszatkowski\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

remove and recreate Lync user account, change Windows OS version to 7 or 8 with the same result.

Unfortunately, nothing helped, so this weekend we decided to finally take the subject seriously.

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant available

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 06/03/2013 - 01:01 |
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Microsoft Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant is available now.

It’s web-based tool that will help you to deploy Microsoft Exchange 2013.

When you run this tool you can select below deployment type:

  • On-Premises
  • Hybrid
  • Cloud Only

 

Exchange2013_DeploymentAssistant

 

By selecting the appropriate option you will be asked questions about the environment you want to create.

Based on your answers, this tool will provide you a customized checklist with instructions how to deploy and configure Exchange 2013

The Deployment Assistant for Exchange 2013 is supported on most major browsers and has a completely redesigned interface that’s no longer dependent on Silverlight technology

Tool is available here:

Microsoft Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant

 

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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3 unable to delete email “unknown error”

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 01/03/2013 - 11:38 | ,
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Those of you who have already installed the latest Rollup for Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 6 or SP3 may face a problem regarding deleting emails from mailboxes.

After installing SP3 or RU6 for Exchange 2010 SP2 users can have a problem with deleting emails from inbox folder.

When you try to delete email you can receive error message: “unknown error” and, of course, email is not deleted.

A lot of users wrote on Technet Forums that this issue occurs when you try to soft delete email from inbox folder, especially when email contain an attachment such as: PDF

Interestingly the problem does not occur when you delete an email using Shift + Del or when you move this email to other folder or subfolder.

Another interesting fact is that this problem only occurs in Outlook online mode and OWA. However, in the Outlook cache mode no problems.

Unfortunately, the solution for now is to uninstall the installed updates RU6 for Exchange 2010 SP2 or uninstall SP3.

Several problems are reported to Microsoft, which confirms that receives such notification but not yet officially on the subject is not spoken.

 

 

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MEC 2014 announced

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 28/02/2013 - 01:11 |
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MEC2014

Microsoft announced the next Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC).

Another MEC is going to be held in …… 2014.

 

Last MEC was in September 2012 in Orlando.

It was good oportunity to share your ideas, ask questions and discuss your Exchange Server related concern with Microsoft Engineers, Exchange Server MVPs, and with all other Exchange community folks around the world.

Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 in Orlando was held 10 years after the last MEC.

So now Microsoft says: “See, we told you it wouldn’t be antoher 10 years!”

But we hope it will be every year.

On WebSite I am MEC you can find information about MEC 2014.
We don’t know when, only April 2014, and we don’t know where.

What will Microsoft present on MEC 2014 ? We don’t know yet. Maybe new Exchange Server, or new features for Exchange Server 2013 or SP1.

Where … maybe in Europe, but we don’t think so.

Visit WebSite www.iammec.com and Exchange Team Blog WebSite where you can find many links, blogs, and Exchange MVP’s

Exchange Team Blog cool links

 

 

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iOS 6.1.2 fixes Exchange calendar sync issue

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 27/02/2013 - 06:30 | ,
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After many reports of problems with iOS 6.1 for Apple devices, with synchronizing calendar mailbox located on the Exchange server, Apple has finally released a new version of iOS 6.1.2.

We wrote about it here:

Devices with iOS 6.1 cause Exchange excessive transaction log growth

 

On website Support Apple we can read that, iOS version 6.1.2 improves error handling Exchange calendar, which could lead to increased activity in the network (synchronization), and reduced battery life.

 

ios6.1.2_fix

 

This description is very superficial and does not mention that the “increased network activity” caused a rapid increase Exchange Transaction Logs that could cause dismount databases with mailboxes.

However it’s good that Apple finally noted that this problem occurred.

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Exchange Server 2010 SP3 installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 19/02/2013 - 06:24 | ,
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Below we will shortly present how to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

Installation is quite simple.

First we need to install Microsoft Windows Server 2012 on server.

After installation get all updates from Microsoft provided for Windows Server 2012.

When you are sure that server has installed all updates, you need to install all required Windows Features for Exchange Server 2010.

Run Powershell console and write or paste:

Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Static-Content,Web-WMI,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart

 

This will install all features provided for Exchange Server 2010. After installation server should be restarted.

Next you need to install:

both of them are required for Exchange 2010 SP3.

 

Now when Windows Server 2012 is prepared for installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 you can go on.

Installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP3 can be run from setup.exe, then you will use Installation Wizard, or you can open CMD as a Administrator, go to Service Pack 3 folder and run command like below:

setup.com /mode:install /r:ca,ht,mb

 

This will run unattended installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP3 with roles CAS, HT, and mailbox server.

 

 

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