Nexus: News

Mostly for my own reference here’s how the BlackBerry bundle numbers you see in ‘Add/Remove programs’ correspond to the various maintenance releases and hotfixes: Updated 13th April 2014 Version Bundle 5.0 223 5.0 MR1 236 5.0 MR2 244 5.0 MR3 … Continue reading →

It has been brought to our attention that Apple devices which have been upgraded to iOS6 may encounter an issue when responding to meeting requests in Exchange. The behaviour has been described as ‘meeting hijacking’ and seems to relate to … Continue reading →

We have identified a curious issue with Exchange 2010 when SP2 Rollup 4 is applied. Here’s what happened, in a nutshell, on our servers:  Users who have ‘Full Access’ permissions over a secondary mailbox lose the ability to open that … Continue reading →

This month brings us some new hardware which will shortly become our new Threat Management Gateway array. The new servers are all HP’s  Proliant DL380p (Gen8). The process for setting up new HP servers has recently been updated. They’ve recently … Continue reading →

It’s been some time since I last wrote about Nexus’ mobile users so here’s some nice fresh statistics to see what has changed:  11,461 ActiveSync devices 78% have connected in the last three calendar months. 61%  have made a connection … Continue reading →

This cmdlet was mentioned in a previous blog post but I’ve noticed that the information on it that’s out there can be a bit sketchy. So, for my own reference as much as for anyone else’s, here’s my notes on … Continue reading →

To save you reading all those previous posts, here’s a recap for you: Late in the evening of Sunday 4th March 2012, the testing phase was over. I had had feedback from our early adopters and, with all systems set … Continue reading →

  In the spirit of The Register‘s mission to snap the snappers here’s my contribution. As one of Google’s cars passed the office this morning I took the opportunity to do unto Google as they were doing unto me: EDIT: … Continue reading →

With over 48,500 mailboxes now running successfully on Exchange 2010 it’s tempting to think of the migration as ‘done’. But appearances can be deceiving: at the beginning of last week I was stuck with twelve mailboxes remaining –  none of … Continue reading →

To keep our migrations under control I’ve been relying very heavily on the use of batched migration runs.  The process I’ve followed uses the ‘suspendwhenreadytocomplete’ value which performs the normal migration, copying the entire set of users’ mailboxes, but – … Continue reading →