Blogs - Pro-Exchange,Lync & Office 365

Your Out of Office settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later. ?!?

It's a pop-up you may have seen before when using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to open a mailbox homed on an Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in your Exchange organization... When opening a mailbox homed on an Exchange 2007 Mailbox server, Microsoft...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Ilse Van Criekinge on 07-14-2009

Filed under: exchange, certificates, Exchange 2007 certificate, exchange 2007, SP2

Your Out of Office settings cannot be displayed...what's wrong?

Ever seen this error message when you try to run the Out of Office assistant from within Outlook 2007? " Your Out of Office settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again Later." You will notice this with...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Ilse Van Criekinge on 03-17-2009

Generating Exchange 2010 Certificates (Exchange Management Shell)

As you probably know, Exchange 2007 certificate management was done in powershell. Luckily we have some tools available to help us with the creation of these Powershell Commandlets to generate certificates. Exchange 2010 not only allows you to manage...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Johan Delimon on 10-23-2009

Filed under: Exchange 2010, Certificates, Powershell

Configuring Static Ports for Exchange 2007

Hi and once again welcome to our brand new community site which I hope you will enjoy very much. Today I will explain how to configure your Exchange 2007 servers with static ports which is easy enough but you may like some of the additional info … ...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Tonino on 05-18-2009

Filed under: exchange, firewall, static ports

How to renew your Exchange 2007 SSL-certificate, especially when using ISA Server for Publishing

This blog originally appeared on my "home blog server" at the following url: http://trycatch.be/blogs/pdtit/archive/2009/04/26/how-to-renew-your-exchange-2007-ssl-certificate-specifically-when-using-isa-2006-as-publishing-server.aspx As I am...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by pdtit on 05-15-2009

Filed under: Exchange 2007 certificate

Troubleshooting a busy Exchange server that is not so busy

Hi, A strange title I know but reality is not much different.. today I looked into a Exchange 2003 issue that had the following symptoms: Users where not able to logon to the server Users fortunate enough to be logged on to the server had a very...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Tonino on 07-08-2009

Remove Exchange 2007 Mailbox Role Fails with error : Object is read only because it was created by a future version of Exchange: 0.10 (14.0.100.0). Current supported version is 0.1 (8.0.535.0).

You May receive an Error when Exchange 2010 is installed and you want to remove an Exchange 2007 Mailbox Role! Mailbox Role Failed Error: Object is read only because it was created by a future version of Exchange: 0.10 (14.0.100.0). Current supported...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Johan Delimon on 10-28-2009

Filed under: Exchange 2010, Exchange 2007, Uninstall, Error

Configuring Static Ports for Exchange 2010

Hi, For reasons explained in my article “ Configuring Static Ports for Exchange 2007 ” you may want to lock down the TCP ports Exchange uses to communicate with clients such as Outlook. As you may have noticed things are a bit different in...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Tonino on 04-08-2010

Filed under: Exchange 20100 static ports

Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 Server R2 Server Core ?

Yesterday at the Exchange 2010 Roadshow someone asked a question whether Exchange 2010 is supported on Windows 2008 R2 Server Core? Now that’s an Interesting question! Now that Windows 2008 R2 Server Core looks like to have support for the prerequisites...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Johan Delimon on 12-09-2009

Filed under: Server Core, Install

Your Exchange Server administrator has blocked the version of Outlook that you are using...?

Interesting issue came up today. While trying to demo the use of a registry key called "DumpsterAlwaysOn", it seems I was unable to open any mailbox in the Exchange organization using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. It always showed: Using Microsoft...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Ilse Van Criekinge on 07-13-2009

Filed under: exchange, exchange 2007

Microsoft Lync 2010 MAPI COM Server Authentication Prompt Explained

One of my customers informed me that some users received the Microsoft Lync MAPI COM server authentication prompt and it was confusing them. We could narrow the behavior down to the following: it only appeared when Outlook was closed it most of the time...

Posted to Lync 2010 by Ruben Nauwelaers on 02-10-2012

Filed under: Lync 2010, MAPI, Authentication, Outlook Anywhere

Finally, Managing Exchange Certificates using the GUI :-)

Certificates and Exchange have always been a challenging topic. In Exchange 2007, it was a real endeavor to get the right certificates up and running, by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets Get-ExchangeCertificate, New-ExchangeCertificate, Import...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Ilse Van Criekinge on 05-04-2009

Filed under: Exchange 2010, Certificates

EMC 2010 – Client Access Server Configuration : An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied. HResult = -2147024891

I Recently upgraded my Exchange Organization with some Exchange 2010 server. Obviously you start with the CAS Server 2010. Opening the EMC returned a strange error : An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied. HResult...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Johan Delimon on 10-28-2009

Filed under: Exchange 2010, Error, Exchange Management Console, EMC

Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooting

During our last Chalk Talk session @ Techdays belgium someone asked a question about Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooting. Question: The problem was that Clients were experiencing the famous “Requesting Data” notification in Outlook...

Posted to Exchange 2007 by Johan Delimon on 04-13-2010

Filed under: exchange 2007, Performance, Troubleshooting

Installation of OCS 2007 R2 Web Service Provider for Exchange 2010 RTM

IMPORTANT UPDATE : Exchange 2010 SP1 article can be found here : http://www.pro-exchange.be/blogs/exchange2010/archive/2010/09/01/installation-of-ocs-2007-r2-web-service-provider-for-exchange-2010-sp1.aspx First of all, you have to download the bits here...

Posted to Exchange 2010 by Johan Delimon on 11-16-2009

Filed under: OCS 2007 R2, Web Service Provider, Presence