Recently we’ve had several issues reported regarding Internet Explorer 8 and Outlook Web Access load balancing scenarios. Here are the scenarios we’ve identified so far: DNS Round robin load balancing when DNS TTL expires DNS Round robin load balancing...

Previously I had posted a problem regarding Autodiscover site-scoping and client-only sites .  For sites that do not have Exchange Servers in them, the corresponding client sites must be added to the SCP object so that Outlook clients will discover...

I have obviously been really busy since December since that is the last time I posted a blog entry. It's rather embarrassing, but I've been devoting a lot of my time to an Exchange Troubleshooting tool hopefully to be unveiled in the Exchange 14 timeframe...

Many customers that are hosting multiple SMTP domains need to use one of our Autodiscover "redirect" methods to deploy autodiscover instead of the pre-defined URL approach. When customers choose a "redirect" method they have two options. Below is a chart...

Here's a quick Powershell one-liner to start up all the necessary Exchange Services for any given role. Test-ServiceHealth | Select-Object -Expand ServicesNotRunning | Start-Service There is also the old standby: Get-Service *Exchange* | Start-Service...

CAS Load Balancing Best Practices (Part 2: Load balancing Intranet aka "Non-Internet facing" sites): For Part 1 of this post, go here: CAS Load-Balancing Best Practices (Part 1) You need to understand CAS->CAS Proxying before you try to understand...

Just wanted to let folks know that a new update to the Autodiscover Whitepaper is now available. This now contains tons more information regarding certificates, web service URL's, best practices, etc. You can find the whitepaper here: http://technet...

The Exchange Autodiscover service is very smart when it hands out URLs for web services to clients. It will always hand out URLs that are in the same Active Directory site as the user's mailbox server. Unfortunately, when it comes to Outlook locating...

There just isn't much in the way of How-to / Best Practices type of information regarding load Balancing Client Access Servers in Exchange 2007. Soon we should be releasing additional Technet content relating to the deployment of Autodiscover and Web...

Yesterday I got looped into a call where a customer that reported that meeting requests were ahead by an hour when he sent them to the Internet. Knowing this had to have something to do with Timezones and DST, I whipped together a quick tool to Display...