When Migrating Receive connectors from an earlier version of Exchange (2007 upwards), it can be useful to find the application Receive Connectors, that are used by applications, multifunction devices, printers, etc. Relay permissions are an Active Directory permission and not an Exchange permission, with that in mind the line of PowerShell below looks for all […]
It’s a disconcerting event when one day one of your Exchange 2010 SP1 or later DAG members blue-screens. We have a wide range of emotions that accompany one of these event’s including a sense of dread and an “OH NO” sense of something wrong, since after all, it IS a critical application AND it’s meant […]
Occasionally during your working day, you may find that email is rejected after is it sent with a notice similar to the following: Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: Nicolas Blank Your message wasn’t delivered due to a permission or security issue. It may have been rejected by a moderator, the address may […]
Introduction This article will speak to load balancing Exchange, and specifically with a review of the Kemp load balancer virtual (VLM) appliance. Why load balance Exchange Every generation of Exchange had their own areas of specialty: Exchange 2003 forced us to learn about clustering and SAN’s Exchange 2007 made us PKI experts, Exchange 2010 on […]
Lepide Exchange Manager (LEM) was a pleasant surprise when it crossed my desk. LEM allows for the recovery of mail from a variety of sources into EML’s, MSG’s PST’s or online mailboxes. While this kind of product certainly isn’t new, the simplicity and speed of LEM coupled with a common sense approach to its user […]
I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, […]
Some of you may know that I own and operate a consultancy, however what isn’t so obvious, is that we have staff, which need to stay certified. With the new partner competencies in mind, getting your staff up to speed on their certs quickly is a concern. I’m not going to discuss the partner requirements […]
Office 365 is now available to South African Customers. www.office365.co.za now resolves to the familiar Office 365 site we’ve become accustomed to while trialling the service, however, one crucial part of the site has been missing. The sign up screen now supports South Africa in the drop down list of available countries. There’s not much […]
“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 […]
If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have […]