Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
The first detailed sizing information about Exchange Server 2013 has appeared in the Exchange Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/05/06/ask-the-perf-guy-sizing-exchange-2013-deployments.aspx There is not yet a calculator like Exchange 2010, but according to the article this will come. Since I wanted to make my life a little easier, I made a little Excel spreadsheet myself, I'm ... Read more
Ingenious, a script for testing the Exchange VSS Writer has been published in the Exchange Team Blog. I have already spent a lot of time analyzing backup problems. Sometimes it was faulty databases, sometimes faulty volumes, sometimes faulty VSS writers, it's all been there. Some time ago I described here how a manual VSS backup ... Read more
Outlook profiles can be created and distributed via OCAT and PRF files, which also works quite well, but sometimes it is a bit of a crap shoot. If you "just want to swap" the Exchange server name, you should take a look at RichProfile. The tool is free and makes swapping the server name very easy (also via the command line in ... Read more
Today was one of those days... let's not go there. It caught me cold today. The monitoring of the Exchange environment was not running properly and the impending catastrophe was only noticed when it had already occurred. Within a few hours the Exchange log partition was full of transaction logs. When users reported that no more mails were being received and ... Read more
Note: This information resulted from a conversation and is therefore to be understood as an unfiltered transcript. The Exchange 2013 environment consists of the "All-in-One" Mailbox Server role and the CAS role, which has little in common with the 2010 CAS role. The CAS role in the sense of 2010 is also located on the Mailbox Server, which ... Read more
The long-awaited update for Sophos UTM was released today. Michel has published a detailed article with changes. With regard to Exchange, this feature is particularly interesting: WAF: Outlook Anywhere Passthrough Support 15089 Support for Outlook Anywhere via the Webapplication Firewall The Webapplication Firewall now supports Outlook Anywhere (RPCoverHTTPS). I will test it ... Read more
The out-of-office assistant can also be conveniently managed via Exchange Management Shell, so if a user has forgotten to switch on the assistant before going on vacation... Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage "I'm not here" -ExternalMessage "Dear customer I'll be back soon" to switch off Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Disabled You could also build a nice template, ... Read more
I have already reported on the logging of the Client Access service here. Today I had a specific case in which there were repeated connection errors or interruptions. I therefore created a script that extracts all errors from the RCA log into a CSV file. However, the script is in the category Quick & ... Read more
Hello dear readers, maybe some of you know my Exchange Reporter for Exchange 2010. Michael Kunesch has pointed out to me that there are some problems with Exchange 2013. According to feedback from some users, the update function and the installation are also a bit tricky. Since I have not found the time for a long time now to ... Read more
A simple Powershell command can be used to display the backup status of the mailbox databases Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,LastFullBackup,LastIncrementalBackup,BackupInProgress In this example, the time of the last full backup and the last incremental backup is displayed. It also shows whether the database is currently being backed up.
