As always, I am humbled and honored to receive this award from Microsoft. Feels good to know that I am contributing to the Exchange, PowerShell and Office 365 community. This is now my seventh Microsoft MVP award and one where I also received a second category of Cloud and DataCenter Management in addition to my…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Three New Powershell Tips Published This Week!
All free, all publishes this week. Please click on the links below to view the tips! PowerShell Parameter Basics Pause PowerShell Colorful PowerShell
Exchange 2013 CU22 Shows as CU20 Add Remove Programs
Ran into an oddity I thought I would share. After installing and verifying a customer’s Exchange 2013 CU22 upgrade using PowerShell, I handed the servers over to the customer. Sometime in the next week the customer contact me to verify I installed the correct CU. Thinking this was rather strange, he shared a screenshot of…
.NET Versions and Exchange
Microsoft has their own Exchange Supportability Matrix which covers many parts of what is supported with a particular version of Exchange. What you will find is that some charts that are included are a bit wanting. A Lot of older and historical information has been pulled. A fellow MVP, Michel de Rooij posted a a…
Updated Exchange 2013 Prerequisite Script Updated to v1.20
** UPDATE ** I had gotten so accustomed to working with newer OS’s like Windows 2016 and 2019, that I had forgotten how much of a pain .NET is for Windows 2012 R2. So when I re-wrote the code for the script I assumed I no longer needed some of the hotfixes that were used…
Updated Exchange 2019 Prerequisite Script Updated to v1.10
** UPDATE ** Tinkered with this script some more, like my Exchange 2016 script. Added support for .NET 4.8 as an optional install. Will be default by the fall. The script just went a minor upgrade with a lot of changes. Here is the current list: Added .NET 4.8 as an Option (Will be default…
Updated Exchange 2016 Prerequisite Script Updated to v1.16
Another update. Added support for .NET 4.8 as an optional install. Will be default by the fall. The script just went a minor upgrade with a lot of changes. Here is the current list: Added .NET 4.8 as an Option (Will be default by the Fall of 2019) – CU2+ TCP Keep Alive Value Functions…
Updated Exchange 2019 Prerequisite Script Updated to v1.09
I realized that I hadn’t updated this script in some time, so I took my tweaks from the 2016 script and added them to this script. I also tweaked some of the other 2019 only items like the .NET requirement (only 4.7.2 and nothing newer) and RAM requirements are better reported and modified. Current change…
Updated Exchange 2016 Prerequisite Script Updated to v1.15
Exchange 2016 is still alive and kicking (I have multiple clients migrating to it as I write this). As such, I’ve kept my Exchange 2016 Prerequisite script as up to date as I can make it. The script just went a minor upgrade with a lot of changes. Here is the current list: Changed Internet…
UPDATED – Exchange 2013 Prerequisite Script Now Version 1.19
I was working on a lab for a customer, installing Exchange 2013, when I noticed my script needed some TLC. I updated some code, added some error handling, corrected some syntax and worked on the menu. The new version of the script can be found HERE. If you like the script, please make sure to…
