M365 and AZURE Blog: February 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013

Configuring Static Ports for Exchange 2010 SP1 and up….

We will configure Static port assignment for Exchange 2010 environment , in this example all Messaging Servers are SP1 running on Win2008 R2 and up. Static port assignment is recommended on most of the HLB deployments otherwise default behavior random ports may cause inconvenience or may make the troubleshooting more difficult. Remember in Exchange 2013 RPC is no longer running over TCP/135 it is wrapped into HTTP packets we will get back to this and capture some of the Netstat statistic later on.

CAS SERVER & SERVERS (***RPC Client Access Service ***)

Open Register editor and drill down to below register key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
MSExchangeRPC

***TCP/IP Port = 60300 ***

Create a new key named ParametersSystem & Under this KEY-> Create a REG_DWORD named TCP/IP Port

***MS Recommendation is to set the port number in between 59531 and 60554 and use the same port on all CAS Servers. I have chosen fallowing port numbers for each corresponding services, change them as you wish to fit into your own preference***

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSExchangeRPC\ParametersSystem

***Re-Start Manages client RPC connections for Exchange Service on CAS Server***

Restart-Service MSExchangeRPC

CAS SERVER & SERVERS (***Exchange 2010 Address Book Service***)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
MSExchangeAB

***RpcTcpPort =60301***

Create a new String Value called “RpcTcpPort” Data Value 60301

***Re-Start Microsoft Exchange Address Book Service on the CAS Server*

Restart-Service MSExchangeAB

Exchange 2010 Public Folder Connections ( on the MBX Server & Servers )

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
MSExchangeRPC

Create a new key named ParametersSystem & Under this KEY-> Create a REG_DWORD named TCP/IP Port

TCP/IP Port = 60300

Here are the .reg files you can download them and run them on your CAS and MBX servers ( windows 2008 R2)

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=1C8A0DB5C88AB3D2!2369

HOW TO VERIFY STATIC PORT ASSIGNMENT

netstat -an -p tcp

CAS SERVER

MBX SERVER

MAPI CLIENT ( outlook user workstation)

Script to configure ports

http://blogs.technet.com/b/bshukla/archive/2011/10/21/script-to-configure-static-ports-on-exchange-server-2010.aspx

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Windows 2012 & DCPromo !!!

If you got your hands on to windows 2012 Servers and first things you will notice “DCPromo” wont work anymore (-: , so long we got used to “DCPromo” and not it has been taken away.

IF you are admin type wont like GUI and like to get things done via command line , like me you will have heart broken, perhaps you will be happy (-:, sort story let’s get the simple promoting Server to be a additional domain controller in existing Forest/Domain. Most of the general knowledge is the same, we still have NTDS folder and .DIT database and edb.chk file, with logs.

I like to add the Server to Forest/Domain before promoting them to be DC/GC/DNS etc., it is an old habit, I like the server to add A record, PTR record ( if RDNS Zone exist) reboot the server and log into domain and do the domain controller promotion from there.

after login to Server and point the server to existing DNS server run the fallowing command from PS

Install-ADDSDomainController

If you need to add windows services……

Install-windowsfeature -name AD-Domain-Services –IncludeManagementTools

After you log in if you like to go to your C drive to verify the database etc. and having hard time to navigate in windows 2012 server (-: , just open PS and you can do everything and more from there, simply you can type “Explorer” hit enter, to get to GUI (-: or just type

Start C:\