Version 4.5 of the Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator, which can be found here, has been released.
Category Archives: Exchange Server
Introducing the Exchange Server Pre-Deployment Analyzer (ExPDA)
The Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer (ExPDA) performs an overall topology readiness scan of your environment and provides you with a list of decisions that need to be made before you deploy Exchange Server 2010.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 2 Released
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is Supported on Exchange Server 2010
In order to enable full support, three updates are required:
Upgrading to Exchange Server 2010
The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog has started a series of posts that are must reads if you plan to upgrade to Exchange Server 2010. Here’s a list of the posts they’ve published to date:
- Transitioning Client Access to Exchange Server 2010
- Upgrading Outlook Web App to Exchange 2010
- Upgrading Exchange ActiveSync to Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 1 Released
A couple of months after Exchange Server 2010 was released to manufacturing, Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1. The following is a list of issues fixed in Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 1:
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 1 Released
Microsoft Released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2. There are almost 50 issues that the update rollup fixes. Details on the Update Rollup can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971534 and http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/21/453277.aspx.
Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant
Microsoft just released the Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant, which can be found by going to http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2010.
Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator
Great post by the MS Exchange Team:
Exchange 2007 WILL BE Supported on Windows Server 2008 R2
It’s official, Kevin Allison (GM Exchange Customer Experience) published a post on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog stating that Exchange 2007 will support Windows Server 2008 R2. The catch, it’s not here yet 
. There is no specific date provided in his post, but he does state “In the coming calendar year we will issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support of Windows Server 2008 R2.”
Installing Exchange 2007 SP2 with Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers Fix Available
For more details, see post on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: The fix for installation of Exchange 2007 SP2 with Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers is now available.
Exchange 2010 and Resolution of the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue
Since the release of Exchange Server 2010 RC1, there’s been a lot of debate over some ACEs that are added to the AdminSDHolder object by /PrepareDomain in Exchange 2010 RC1. For more information on this, see Exchange 2010 Modification of AdminSDHolder ACL Can Result in Elevation of Privilege and Exchange 2010 RC1 and AdminSDHolder.
A post was added to the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog this morning that confirms that this has been resolved in the RTM version of Exchange Server 2010. More specifically:
- /PrepareDomain no longer applies ACEs granted to Exchange Windows Permissions USG on the AdminSDHolder container. If /PrepareDomain detects the ACEs granted to Exchange Windows Permissions USG on the AdminSDHolder container, /PrepareDomain will remove them.
- /PrepareDomain no longer applies the extended right ACE User-Change-Password to the Exchange Servers USG on the AdminSDHolder container. If /PrepareDomain detects this ACE granted to Exchange Servers USG on the AdminSDHolder container, /PrepareDomain will remove it.
- /PrepareDomain no longer applies the extended right ACE User-Change-Password to the Exchange Servers USG on the domain partition. If /PrepareDomain detects this ACE granted to Exchange Servers USG on the domain partition, /PrepareDomain will remove it.
- /PrepareDomain no longer applies an unscoped DeleteTree and WriteDACL ACEs on the domain partition. Instead, these ACEs are replaced by scoping them specifically to user and inetOrgPerson class objects.
Exchange Server 2010 Resources
I compiled a list of Exchange Server 2010 resources, which are currently available. I will try to update this list as I come across additional Exchange Server 2010 resources.
Exchange 2007 SP2 Setup fails with Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers
A post was added to the Microsoft Exchange Team blog yesterday that identifies an issue where Exchange 2007 SP2 Setup fails if all domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Exchange 2010 RC1 Modification of AdminSDHolder ACL Can Result in Elevation of Privilege
UPDATE: This has been resolved in the RTM version of Exchange Server 2010. Please see Exchange 2010 and Resolution of the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue for more details.
The PrepareDomain setup phase of Exchange 2010 RC1 adds several Access Control Entries (ACEs) to the Access Control List (ACL) of the AdminSDHolder object. One of these ACEs, Write Property for member, can be used to elevate privileges from Exchange Organization Administrator to Enterprise Admins.