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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010.

Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got the finances to purchase a new server for a bare metal installation, or enough hardware to perform some sort of swing installation.

At least on a plus point, SharePoint 2010 does support an in-place upgrade from SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. At least one of the upgrades will be simple this year. Looking forward to trying out the new features. Shortly going to be getting our development system up and running ready to formulate our deployment plans.

Anyway, enough of my drivel. Back to coming up with a plan for our Exchange 2010 upgrade.

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Could not access OWA using HTTPS – Error 404

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Symptoms here are:

  • Unable to access OWA
  • Outlook 2007 reports that it is unable to change any Out Of Office settings; server unavailable.

The enviroment: Microsoft Exchange 2007 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

One other symptom, which I don’t know if this resolved or something else did, is that the Free/Busy information was not accurate when scheduling a meeting.

The fix:

  1. Ensure that you have a current server certificate, even self signed, in the Personal store for the local computer on the server.
  2. Open up IIS Manager
  3. Right click the Default Website (or the site that hosts OWA), and select Edit Bindings
  4. Make sure there is an entry there for https. If not create one.
  5. Edit the entry and make sure that the correct IP address and port settings are present.
  6. Ensure that the current certificate that you verified existed in step 1, is selected for the SSL Certficate.
  7. Click OK and clos all windows. No need to restart IIS, and your site and services should now be back up and running.
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Outlook Send/Receive 0x8004010f

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Been having this problem on all machines which use Cached Exchange Mode at work. Was really beginning to get annoying as any of the suggestions that I found on the MSExchange Team blog did not seem to work. For reference, the site is was on is: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/04/19/437902.aspx

After a while of head scratching and null answers, started looking a bit out of the box. Had a look at ISA server, just by chance, and noticed an error occurring every time that a Send/Receive was initiated from a client.

As my ISA server is only meant to log internet requests, I thought this was a bit weird. A look a little closer found that I had a typo in an address configured in my proxy pac file. All local traffic had been going to my ISA server and being logged since I made the change (about a week ago).

So, sorted out my proxy pac file, made sure that everything was pointing to the right place, and everything started ticking along nicely.

Downloads started working and everyone could then access the address list offline again.

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Convert Legacy Mailbox to User Mailbox

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Just had to convert a load of Legacy Mailboxes created accidentally by a colleague who forgot to use the new Exchange 2007 console to create their mailboxes. Had about 350 new users so dong it manually wasn’t really an option!

Using the power of pipes in Exchange 2007 Shell you can run the following command to upgrade all legacy mailboxes to user mailboxes. Do make sure that you want to do this before hitting enter. You can filter the affected users even more if you wish.

Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails LegacyMailbox | Set-Mailbox -ApplyMandatoryProperties

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