“Quick Answers to common problems” – I have to agree. A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the […]
In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of […]
v17.2 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator was released yesterday with a number of bug fixes, however it’s not the bug fixes that I’d like to call out, it’s the virtualization support added two releases ago in case you missed it. When designing for virtual workloads the general guidance has been […]
Something that occurs in a lab situation quite frequently and less in real life is changing IP addresses on your Exchange server. Some of my lab servers frequently undergo a scenario change where I’ll add or remove them from specific Hyper-V networks or subnets. Then one day everything broke. EMS reported : Connecting to […]
Load Balancers can be rather complex, the guidance can be confusing, and how vendors interpret that guidance can be interesting. So image my joy when I discovered that F5 have a bunch of webcast based walkthroughs that make life easier for the average guy having to configure an F5 load balancer as part of implementing […]
I’ve been working with some folks who are discovering the intricacies of MAPI on Exchange 2010. Since they were feeling some pain on this issue, I thought it may be worth writing about in case more folks are running into the same issue. We’re used to Outlook doing a load of things for us, and quite […]
I had a great question today: I have three Hub Transport Servers,and one Mailbox Server, and I want Hub Transport servers one and two used for load balanced mail delivery. Hub Transport Server three should never be used, except for mail relaying. Obviously one of the design features of Exchange 2010 is the ability […]
In Exchange 2010 specifically, or even Exchange 2007/2010 mixed orgs you can easily detect which servers require MAPI encryption. The easiest would be to run Get-RPCClientAccess, which returns all Exchange 2010 servers hosting MAPI Endpoints and all encryption levels as well as if the server carries MAPI client and/or public folder responsibility. The output above […]
NOT spending money on a hardware load balancer when you have the requirement to do so will hurt you considerably in the long run, however most folks don’t know one from the other, and why one man’s load balancer is another man’s small fortune. Now it’s easy to find a hardware load balancer that has […]
Very common for most orgs evaluating cloud based mail to not know where to start, or understand where the benefits are. This morning I was made aware of a free tool from Quest, called the Quest Migration Assessment Tool, or QMAT for short. It’s a browser-based application that provides guidance for evaluating Microsoft Exchange Online […]