In larger Exchange 2010 environments you will probably not perform administrative tasks by RDP directly to the Exchange servers (or at least... you shouldn't). I prefer designating a "managementservers" to which all admins RDP to and perform their tasks. Then I can secure that server and I don't have to bother troubleshooting the workstations and I know they're not messing around locally on the Exchangeservers. You can also use this server to perform some various Scheduled Tasks, run scripts etc. [...]
Sometimes it's necessary to figure out which Global Catalog (GC) your Exchange 2010 is using. Open EMC Go to Server Configuration, right-click each server and choose Properties and go to System Settings tab. You can also look for Event ID Event ID 2080 in the Application logfile and KB316300 gives you an idea what this means. To force it to use a specific GC: Open EMC Right-click Organization Configuration and choose Modify Configuration Domain Controller: Choose the default (Exchange will [...]
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I was working with a large Exchange 2010 migration and had 50+ Accepted Domains in Exchange 2010 to take care of, many of them very old so nobody could tell me if they were in use. This company also had gone through many changes so we had to verify that each accepted domain had the correct MX record specified in the public DNS. The external domains were hosted on external DNS:es and the mailgateways were 3rd party. So instead of [...]
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