All about new Clutter Feature in Office 365

Office 365 November 25, 2014 Comments: 4

Clutter is a new feature introduced  in Office 365.
This feature automatically analyzes once mailbox , checks the most read/unread emails and moves the unwanted unread emails that are in the users mailbox to a new folder called Clutter.
It creates a new folder called clutter under each user’s mailbox for whom this feature is enabled.

When will the clutter feature available in my office 365 tenant?

Admins who have opted for First Release in their Office 365 Admin Center would be able to see the Clutter feature enabled.

Also check if you have enabled for first release.

In-order to check
Navigate to Office 365 Admin portal

Select Office 365 – click on service settings – choose updates and scroll the option towards right to opt for first release.

 

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If you have opted for standard release then users will need to wait for 3 weeks from November 13th for this feature to be enabled.

By default this clutter feature is not enabled for all users once this feature is available for office 365 tenant.

This feature can be enabled for users through owa
Follow these steps to enable it:

1. Open OWA.
2. Click the Settings (“gear”) icon in the navigation  bar.
3. Click options
4. Select the option clutter and there you will have 2 options to enable or disable the clutter feature as shown below.

 

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We could see the clutter feature is disabled by default for all the users. When we select the first option then it separates those clutter identified emails and then it moves it to the clutter folder.

 

Once  the user enables this feature in his mailbox he gets a confirmation email in his inbox of clutter enabled and a small summary of this feature as below.

confirmation

 

Once this feature is enabled user will  have an option to right click on any emails in inbox and have an option as mark as clutter as shown below.

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Also if we right click on any emails that is in clutter folder we have an option to mark as not clutter. This option can be used by end users if in case they identify any important emails moved to the clutter folder.

 

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How does this clutter work ?

Once end user enables  this clutter functionality  it actually needs some time to analyze the way of work the person is doing in his mailbox. It will try to prioritize the users most frequently visited emails and the unread emails. Once it identifies the unused emails it would move all those emails to the clutter folder which would be created under inbox for the user who has clutter feature enabled.

Also if you need this feature to understand more about the way to organize your mailbox you can simply move the unused emails to this clutter folder created in your mailbox. By this way this feature will be able to understand and make this functionality work very fast in your mailbox.

Clutter works only on the emails that have been already processed by Anti-spam filters, Agents and it does not works on any spam emails.Basically it does not create any folders under clutter folder and move emails like rules.

Also if an end user creates a rule and moves few emails to a specific folder under his inbox then clutter feature does not disturb those emails as rules take precedence over clutter feature.Clutter works only on the emails which are not mostly viewed under inbox.

The main functionality of Clutter is to keep the inbox organized and clean only with priority emails and move the unread,untouched emails to the clutter folder.

Lets say if we are receiving daily company updates/changes which are not in top priority of daily job which would always be in unread then those emails would be moved to the clutter folder if its not been seen for some days (not sure about exact time period). So this reduces the end user job to create  rule for this unread daily updates. If the user feels like reading these updates on his free time then he can always come to his clutter folder and have a look at these emails.

This clutter feature works on Outlook Client, OWA and also Active Sync Enabled Devices.
Clutter is a good feature which would be definitely useful for end users to keep their inbox organized way in their daily  busy schedule.

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Microsoft Office Delve for Office 365

Office 365 November 21, 2014 Leave a comment

What is Delve ?

Delve is a new option introduced in Office 365 which can be enabled for users and is a new way to search and discover content across office 365.Its a kind of a sticky notes which will help end users to glance through in their busy day and prioritize their work.
Based on every individual work Delve will analyze and will give the information to each users in the Delve Views. So basically the Delve information what you see in yours will be entirely different from other person Delve View.
What Kind of Files does Delve Shows to users ?

Delve shows users videos, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, or Word documents that they have access to. Delve prioritizes content that’s been modified or viewed in the last three months and shows them accordingly in the Delve view for each and every user.

Below is an example Screen Shot of how Delve would look like for the end user

Delve

Core Functionality involved in Delve

The core functionality part for the Delve is the contents that are stored in the share point Online and in One-drive for Business.
Its kind of a cached information visible to users as a sticky notes for the documents you and your colleagues viewed,edited and shared in share-point and one-drive.

Functionality of Delve in Exchange Online

For Exchange Online it fetches the right people(most communicated people through exchange online) , Most searched email content and creates a cached information for that user and makes them visible in the Delve view for each and every user.

Functionality of Delve in Lync Online

For Lync  Online it fetches the right people(most communicated people through Lync online)
Users would be able to see them in their delve and would be able to communicate with those users directly from  Lync Online.

Delve updates and changes the people information, documents every 24 hours according to their work. It keeps the information of last 3 months.
How to Activate Delve ?

Delve is on by default. If you turn Delve off, the Office Graph Index will still get built but will not be used in search. It will also remove the ‘Delve’ link in the O365 navigation bar if we turn of Delve.

What Office 365 subscription do i need to activate Delve ?

If Your organization uses any one of Office 365 Enterprise (E1, E3, and E4), Office 365 Education (A2, A3 and A4) or Office 365 Government (G1, G3 and G4) Delve can be enabled. Delve is supported in all versions of Office 365 subscriptions.

Ensure that you are in First Release Group only

To verify, go to Admin in Office 365 Portal > Service settings > Updates and make sure that First Release toggle is set to ON.

Few things that can be checked to enable Delve Functionality

Make sure that the user has licenses assigned.
Make sure that users can access the Office graph
Make sure that you allow your organization to access the Office graph. To verify, go to Office 365 admin center > SharePoint Online admin center > Settings > Office graph and make sure that you’ve selected Allow access to the Office graph.

How to Turn off Delve

1. Sign in to the Office 365 Admin Center.
2. Choose Admin > SharePoint. You’re now in the SharePoint admin center.
3. Click Settings > Under ‘Office Graph’ select ‘Allow’ or ‘Don’t Allow’

Delve22

 Also Refer –  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28508.microsoft-office-delve-for-office-365.aspx

Thanks & Regards

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Determining the users connected in Outlook Online/Cached mode

Exchange2010, Exchange2013, Performance November 19, 2014 1 Comment

At times we might run into checking the users how they are connected through online mode or cached mode during troubleshooting performance issues. If we have more number of users connected in online mode then we might need to look into the number of users connected through online mode as this could cause performance issues if we have more online users.

First we need to analyze and identify always users who can be used to connect online mode and the rest of the users can be connected through cached mode . Since cached mode stores the local copy of the user’s email and the OAB in the form of OST file.User no longer needs to  depend upon the network connectivity and the users latest information is available offline.

Probably for most of the users it is better to have the outlook in cached mode since end user will have better experience of reading the latest emails offline and would be able to update them periodically whenever they get connected. Users would be able to read important email even when the laptop is not connected in the LAN or WIFI.

Online mode can be used only in few exemptions where if we have a generic mailbox which has a secure sensitive data which should not be stored locally on any  common PC’s and should be available only for few users. Or if size of the mailbox is very large let’s say greater than 20 GB then it takes more time to update the information.  In those scenarios we can use online mode.

I have just collected few troubleshooting steps which we might think of doing if we are in a situation to determine the users connected in online and cached mode

To see users connected in Cached mode or online mode –

The first easiest way to identify this is through RPC Client Access Logs.

To achieve this goal, we can use Excel to open the RPC Client Access logs. RPC logs can be located in Client Access Server in the below Location.

(<Install Path>:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Logging\RPC Client Access)

These logs would be in Text File. Copy them and open these logs in excel file do some formatting and filter. After filtering them the logs would look like the below screenshot.

RPC logs

We have 2 options classic and cached.Classic is for Online Mode and Cached is for cache mode.

Another way to achieve this is to use EXMON tool to identify the list of online/cached mode users

 

Download the exmon tool from the Microsoft site  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11461

Just proceed with the installation
Once the installation is done we need to go the installed directory and look for the file ExMon.reg,Double click on this file to add the required registry entries.

We might get warnings as below and just proceed with the adding the registry entries

exmon1

 

We should get the below screen upon successful registration of the Reg keys

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We have an option to check the users connected in cached mode as shown below in by clientmon Tab

cached mode

 

Also we have an option to see the client version and the client ip address in by user tab.

 

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Apart from the above we can use the below script which will give only the Outlook Client Version and the computer name and not the ip address and the type of connection users are connected. It can be used only to find the type of Outlook version users are connected and the computer name from which they are connected.

Get-LogonStatistics -server ServerName| where {$_.ClientMode -ne “Cached”} | select-object FullMailboxDirectoryName,UserName,Windows2000Account,ClientMode,ClientName,ClientVersion,Identity | sort-object UserName -Unique| Export-Csv -Path C:\scripts\UserCount.csv -NoTypeInformation

 

Above steps can be used to troubleshoot the Exchange Performance issues and to identify the users connected in online mode in an Exchange Environment.

Also Refer –

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28446.determining-the-list-of-users-connected-in-outlook-onlinecached-mode.aspx

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142433.

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Quick Bites – Best practices for installing Exchange Servers across different subnets/sites

Exchange 2007, Exchange2010, Exchange2013 November 12, 2014 Comments: 2

In this article i have collected few information that we need to look into while we are  planning for Exchange Servers across different subnets.

Exchange servers will work perfectly fine on different subnets. As long as there is no firewall interruption between Exchange servers in the subnet you should be fine.Even if you have firewall it will work fine but ensure that you have DC and GC connectivity if you have firewall to these servers since exchange needs them to contact frequently.

But keep in mind the exchange servers need to talk to each other almost constantly and that would just make things extremely difficult and make troubleshooting harder if you run into any issues with Exchange and GC/DC connectivity.
Ensure that there is no Windows Firewall or A/V interfering perhaps between 2 subnets. Let’s have a look at few things that we need to consider during our planning.

 

For DAG –
If I’ve got servers on multiple subnets do I need to have a DAG IP in the range of each subnet ?

There needs to be a new Subnet added to the DAG before the node in a different subnet can join the DAG.The reason for this is so the DAG name can be switched and hosted in either of subnets.

MAPI network and Replication Network should not be on the same subnets. Having them on a different subnets will not be single point of failure. When a replication network fails, replication should automatically fail-over to the DAG’s MAPI network .Always, DAG member which communicates with other site requires each site with different Replication Network Subnet.

Probably you can perform the below tasks as a part of checking to ensure that the DAG configuration is correct

Run the below command to check the network settings of DAG :-

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAGNAME | ft DatabaseAvailabilityGroupIpAddresses

To provide network connectivity between each of the replication subnet, a persistent static route must be entered into the Exchange member’s routing table.

To create a persistent static route run the below command :-

netsh interface ip add route (Example IP)10.3.0.0/ 24 “replication 1” 10.4.0.2
netsh interface ip add route (Example IP)10.4.0.0/ 24 “replication 2” 10.3.0.2
Validate through Failover Cluster Manager and ensure that DAG IP is Online.

 
For CAS Array –

CAS Array is site Specific

It is possible to add 2 CAS Servers belonging to different subnet in a CAS Array but they should be in same AD sites. Since they should be querying the same DC’s so we can have Exchange servers spanned across 2 datacenters in a single site if you are planning for adding cas servers in a array in 2 different subnets.

If it is going to be 2 different subnets and different sites then we need to create 2 different CAS array one in each site and probably need to do a DNS round robin which will not give a full HA even by setting the TTL values.

 
For HUB –

We need to have hub servers in each site and they are site specific.Hub servers can support HA for different subnets and help in mail routing only when they are spanned across  the same site in different datacenters.
If we are planning for HA for hub servers in different subnet and different site then we need to install hub servers on each site for HA.

The above points will be useful while we plan for Exchange server deployment in 2 sites and subnets.

Reference –

http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/archive/2014/05/06/exchange-2010-2013-what-constitutes-a-failure-of-the-replication-network.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28362.best-practices-for-installing-exchange-servers-across-different-subnetssites.aspx

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server 

Steps to configure cross-forest availability between two exchange forests in Exchange 2013

Exchange2013 November 10, 2014 Comments: 7

In this article lets have a look at steps to configure cross-forest availability between two exchange forests

By using the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace commandlet which has been introduced from Exchange 2013 we would be able to share the exchange free busy data between 2 forests.

We need to have a trust relationship between the source forest and target forest to execute this command. Only then the below command will be successful.

If a trust relationship exists between the two forests, run the following commands.

In our example lets think of sharing the freebusy information between domain Exchangequery.com and toybox.com.

In Order to share the free busy info between these 2 forests we need to perform the below steps

In the source forest perform the following tasks : (ExchangeQuery.com)

Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace -ForestName toybox.com -AccessMethod PerUserFB -UseServiceAccount $true

The above command adds the target domain’s address space  in source domain to share the free busy information in a secured way.

Below types of access methods can be used.

PerUserFB – used to access the FB data in All Exchange Servers group.
OrgWideFB – used to access the FB data in specific group in the target forest.
InternalProxy – used to proxy the request in the latest version of exchange in the site.

The type of access method  can be selected according to our requirement.

Now we need to run the below command in the target domain ( Toybox.com)

Get-Exchangeserver | Add-AdPermission -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights “ms-exch-epi-token-serialization” -User “ExchangeQuery.com\Exchange Servers”

The above command will add required permission for source domain on the target domain Exchange Servers to  access the free busy information.

In a trust relationship scenario, run this command in the target forest toybox to export the SCP from the target forest to the source forest :

 
Export-AutodiscoverConfig –DomainController “LocalForestDomainController” -TargetForestDomainController “(toybox.com)” -TargetForestCredential (Get-Credential) -MultipleExchangeDeployments $true

Type (Toybox\Administrator) password  when prompted.

Now we need to perform the same tasks in the target forest  toybox.com  to share the exchangequery.com address space for sharing the freebusy data.

In the target forest perform the following tasks : (Toybox.com)

Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace -ForestName exchangequery.com – AccessMethod PerUserFB -UseServiceAccount $true

Run the below command in the Source domain ( ExchangeQuery.com)

Get-ClientAccessServer | Add-AdPermission -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights “ms-exch-epi-token-serialization” -User “Toybox.com\Exchange Servers”

 

Now  run this command in the forest Exchangequery.com to export the SCP from the target forest to the source forest:

 
Export-AutodiscoverConfig –DomainController “LocalForestDomainController” -TargetForestDomainController “exchangequery.com” -TargetForestCredential (Get-Credential) -MultipleExchangeDeployments $true

Type Exchangequery.com\Administrator password when prompted.

Imp Note : This command Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace is available and applicable only for Exchange 2013 servers and Office 365.

The required trust relationship, contacts and address space  between the 2 different organizations must be already created and replicated between them.Only then free busy information will be working.

Reference – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124122(v=exchg.150).aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28332.steps-to-configure-cross-forest-availability-between-two-exchange-forests-in-exchange-2013.aspx

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

SysTools Export Notes ( Lotus Notes NSF file to PST Converter )

Lotus Notes November 7, 2014 Leave a comment

Recently there are more number of organizations that are moving from lotus notes to Exchange on-premise 2010/2013 or office 365.

After a successful migration we might run into few requirements for export to PST of Notes mail data ( NSF) local archives to PST files in-order to open them with Outlook.

Basically “Archive databases” in Lotus Notes are like “Personal Folders” PST’s in Outlook (local files).
Because they aren’t located in the Domino Server but in the Lotus Notes client folder in each PC. So these files won’t be migrated to Exchange server mailboxes during the period of migration.

We might come across a scenario where we need to move or view files that are already stored in lotus notes archives and find a way to view them or convert them to pst files. There are few numbers of tools which will help us to get this job done.

I just came across this tool SysTools Export Notes for nsf to pst converter and would like to share the product experience.

I found this tool useful and NSF file to PST converter can be used in following scenarios : –

1) If we are doing migration project for a small business with less number of users , with a tight budget for IT tools then we can choose this option SysTools Export Notes.

2) If we are looking out for a solution to migrate the nsf archive databases alone to pst files then this tool might be a good option .

3) If the migration from the notes to exchange has been already completed and if we have few nsf archive databases in users PC which needs to be converted into PST files for accessing them through outlook.

Now let’s have a look into the functionality of this product

The product can be downloaded from the below link

http://www.systoolsgroup.com/export-notes.html

 

Prerequisites – 

This product can be downloaded and installed on the client PC which has the archive databases .

The supported operating systems are Windows 7 & Windows 8.

We need to have Notes Client and Outlook Client installed on the PC to convert this nsf to pst operation.

Lotus Notes Client should not be connected to the Lotus Domino Server.

Apart from the above i’m not able to find any prerequisites for this software.

 

The installation is pretty much straight forward and just navigate next , next and finish.

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Accept the license agreement

 

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Next screen prompts for installation folder, quick launch  and finally finish.

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It opens up a window as below. Now Enter the Lotus Notes Path

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After that it opens up the wizard as below. Now click on export as shown below

 

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Now choose the nsf archive file that needs to be converted as PST file.Also we have an option to choose Migrate notes contacts as well into PST file.

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Now it brings up the next screen as below.

There is an option to choose categories which has mails,contacts,calendars,tasks and journals.

We can see the Email Filters option by which we can choose only emails to be filtered and exported on a particular interval.

There is Advance Settings option as well which has few options as HTML formatting and removing encryption.

Also there is an option for calendar filters to export entries on a particular date

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Once you click on export it asks for the location of the PST file to be saved.Once entered the location it shows the below screen with Current Status and Final report .

 

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The export time from nsf to pst depends upon the items and the size of the nsf file and it may vay accordingly

Cost Factor : –

Systools nsf to pst converter have licensing structure  cost as one time payment 250 USD. There is also a free version of this product which has all the options similar to the full-version except for the factor it is limited to 16 items per folder.

Conclusion : –

Overall Systools nsf to pst converter product is much user friendly and latest version  has much effective cool new features which can be used for nsf to pst migration and suits well for migrating nsf to pst after migration from notes to Exchange on-premise or office 365.

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Quick Bites – Troubleshooting POP and IMAP connectivity issues in Exchange 2013

Exchange2013, POP3/IMAP November 7, 2014 Comments: 5

In this article lets have a look at troubleshooting POP and IMAP connectivity issues in Exchange 2013.

First lets have a basic requirements  to check what are the features and things that needs to be enabled in-order for these services to work.

 
What ports should be used by the clients for each configuration : –

Port 25 for SMTP with or without TLS, anonymous authentication; (Outgoing)
Port 587 for SMTP with TLS; (Outgoing)
Port 143 for IMAP  without TLS (Incoming);
Port 993 for IMAP with SSL/TLS (Incoming)
Port 110 for POP3  without TLS (Incoming);
Port 995 for POP3 with SSL/TLS (Incoming);

Ensure that all the required ports are open in your firewall accoding to the configuration you have ( with or without TLS). Probably we can do a telnet from externally and see if we get a proper banner.

For POP – Telnet domainname 110
FOr IMAP – Telnet domainname 143

For TLS to work do we need to install any certificates on the servers : –

You should create certificate including your CAS server FQDN and Mailbox FQDN as the SAN name. It should not be self-signed certificate. You should get it from an internal CA or a public CA. Then assign the services SMTP, POP3, IMAP and IIS to this certificate only then it will work.

Do we need to configure anything on the server for POP and IMAP Authentication : –

For Authentication type for POP and IMAP Services, we can choose to use plaintextlogin or securelogin. You can refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/library/aa997188(v=exchg.141).aspx. It defines how the application provide the username and password to do authentication.

 
Below things can  also be checked for Troubleshooting POP and IMAP issues : –
We Can run Test-PopConnectivity and see the results
We Can run Test-imapconnectivity and see the results
Use the remote connectivity analyser for IMAP and POP and see the results

Run the below commands to see the POP and IMAP settings
Get-POPSettings -Server CASservername
Get-IMAPSettings -Server CASservername

Restart your POP3 service and see the results
Check if your POP3 service have valid certificate assigned
Run Get-ExchangeCertificate and see if the certificates are assigned for POP and IMAP services.

Check your ports config and ensure they are correct
Port 110 for POP3  without TLS;
Port 995 for POP3 with SSL;

If you have configured POP and IMAP with either SSL or TLS then a valid certificate should be configured for the same to respond to SSL or TLS(depends upon what type you choose)

Check the incoming and outgoing mail server in Outlook settings

We can enable the trace log and open the log in the location.

Please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997690(v=exchg.141).aspx to set the location and enable the log.

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Convert bulk mailbox users to mail enabled users after staged Exchange Migration to Office 365 from Exchange 2007

Office 365 November 5, 2014 Leave a comment

The most important step that we need to do after a Exchange Migration from On-premise Exchange server to office 365 is to convert all the on premise Exchange mailboxes to Mail Enabled users.

What happens if we decommission on-premise servers without converting them to MEU’s

All the messaging related user information on the Cloud will be lost. Meaning which Dir-sync wont be able to find an associated target address for the users and users wont be able to connect to the cloud mailboxes which will result to an incomplete off-boarding to office 365.
Dir-sync wont be able to connect to the cloud mailbox and the user account in the DC.
Dir-sync wont be able to identify the target proxy address if we don’t have a MEU’s for the same and wont be able to locate the remote routing address.
Initially these values were stamped and provided on the on-premise mailboxes but now since we have moved all the mailboxes now we need to disable all the on-premise mailboxes, create a associated MEU’s for the same and then decommission the on-premise servers

There are scripts to help you convert mailboxes to MEUs which will make our job very easy.

•ExportO365UserInfo.ps1    Collects information from your cloud mailboxes and saves it to a CSV file. The Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 script uses the information in the CSV file to bulk-create the MEUs.

•Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1   Conerts on-premises  mailboxes to MEUs

Please follow the below link to download these scripts

http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/exchange/845.convert-exchange-2007-mailboxes-to-mail-enabled-users-after-a-staged-exchange-migration.aspx

 

If you want to change this value to single user you can use the below steps

First run the below command to get these values

$user = Get-ADUser username -IncludeAllProperties mail,department,ProxyAddresses

Then disable the on-premise mailbox

Get-Mailbox -identity $user | Disable-Mailbox -Confirm:$false

Now enable MEU for the single user

Enable-Mailuser -identity  username -PrimarySmtpAddress “give the value”  -externalemailaddress “give the value”

Set the associated  proxy address for the single user

$user.ProxyAddresses = “set the proxy address value”

 

Imp Note : This article applies only for Exchange 2007 on premise and still if  you  bring any 2010/2013 into coexistence in onprem then  don’t need to follow since it  will convert the mail-enabled users to a MailUser after the remote move completes automatically.

Thanks

Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server

Update – Exchange Server meetings in Russian time zones as well as names of time zones may be incorrect after October 26, 2014

Exchange2010, Exchange2013, General Information October 28, 2014 Leave a comment

After October 26, 2014, Exchange Server some users who are in Russian time zones may see meeting times incorrect Time Zone-display names may be outdated in OWA.

Microsoft released an update (KB 2998527) for Windows on September 23, 2014 to address this change and it should be installed on the end user PC’s and Servers since exchange and outlook relies on windows for the time zone information.

How to obtain this update

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.

Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1bf7a4a0-3bc1-41cc-a374-b4ce39468c32

Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4f9e0be3-8b1e-4a55-a901-397a4b63953b

Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ab371992-26ff-41dc-9c4f-d5ada0f40f5c

Update for Windows 8.1 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=349e7859-5815-45f3-8f4a-8054a3db804d

Update for Windows 8 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3691d9fd-6a0a-47cd-b809-82ad81a71082

Update for Windows 8 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2f8d1b1f-ec76-4a3c-9d48-a85bfc0394b4

Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=388ab764-8dd4-4ec9-ab03-d7005c553d9c

Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=de6ccda2-8ddc-4368-bf20-57e54d3b1d18

Update for Windows 7 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c3aaf9fd-9bcb-45d6-9573-370a750ed200

Update for Windows 7 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1f09acc5-8791-4d63-ae59-8a9b8d4f0ef3

Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3f1ec6b5-8d72-45e9-9c14-26afeb8a92fb

Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=afe9f877-1554-465c-a89b-0be103ab5468

Update for Windows Server 2008 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04ff80b6-4581-4f2c-8133-f344d26d5d35

Update for Windows Server 2008 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=dede4525-57c1-4cb2-b454-0b617f35e357

Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=27a6e895-869b-4011-ae11-ada1c25e26e2

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ef48921e-d478-46d3-9b6f-8620a53fa4e8

Update for Windows Vista for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1707623b-ae1c-4250-ad55-011ec063c279

Update for Windows Server 2003 for x64-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8573abcf-47a0-4a24-88fc-d8adde177781

Update for Windows Server 2003 for x32-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1f44929a-fc1b-4b41-b179-c48e4a2b1975

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems (KB2998527)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=de452734-bb99-4d05-873e-0f12988f61d6

 

Things that we can troubleshoot for the affected reported user even if any issues reported from end users after the above update is applied

1) Restart the affected user’s PC and see the results.

2) login to owa for the affected user and see the time zone whether it is set to UTC+4 as below

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3) If it is set to different time zone then correct the value to UTC + 4 as above

Check the affected user date and time settings in his PC and it should reflect as UTC + 3 as below which is Russian Time Zone

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4) Also run the below command to check to ensure that the affected user Time Zone is in Russian Standard Time

Get-MailboxRegionalConfiguration “affecteduserid”

 

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5) If you notice the user TimeZone is set to a different region then run the below command to change the user to Russian Standard Time

Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration “affecteduserid” -TimeZone “russian standard time”

References – https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2998527?wa=wsignin1.0

Thanks 

Sathish Veerapandian

Update – ExPerfWiz 1.4 has been released

Exchange 2010/2013 Monitoring/Operational Scripts, Monitoring Tools October 27, 2014 1 Comment

ExPerfWiz 1.4 has been released on October 25th 2014

Following are the recent updates in the Experfwiz 1.4

Fixed Circular Logging bug in Windows 2008+
Added ability to convert BLG to CSV for 3rd party application analysis (does not need to be run from EMS, just Powershell 2.0+)
Updated maxsize for Exchange 2013 to default to 1024MB
Fixed filepath bug on Windows 2003
Added/Removed various counters
Fixed location of webhelp
Updated -help syntax

ExPerfWiz is a script developed by Microsoft to to collect the performance data together on Servers running Exchange 2007,2010 and 2013.

In the earlier version we have the option of running -nofull switch by which it will collect only the role based counters.The current version runs in full mode meaning which it collects all the performance counters related for Exchange troubleshooting purposes.

Below is the example to run the perfmon for a duration of 4 hours

Set duration to 4 hours, change interval to collect data every 5 seconds and set Data location to d:\Logs

.\experfwiz.ps1 -duration 04:00:00 -interval 5 -filepath D:\Logs

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If it finds previous data of Perfwiz logs it prompts for an option to delete the old entries, Stops the data collector sets, creates a new data collector sets and then it starts collecting the data.

Note: This script will take the local server name and will run locally on the serve  if no  remote server parameter  is specified.

More Examples can be found at – http://experfwiz.codeplex.com/

Source of Information  – https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/f8aa3e90-d49f-479f-b00b-c8444afefa65/experfwiz-14-has-been-released?forum=exchangesvrgeneral

Thanks 
Sathish Veerapandian

MVP – Exchange Server