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Lync Session Recordings From TechEd 2012

Just in case evaluating the Exchange 2013 preview was not keeping you busy, Channel 9 has recordings on Lync from TechEd 2012.

Enjoy!

Consumerization of IT has brought an irreversible shift of power from IT to the Business where IT is no longer king. Come learn about the 5 ways Lync can supercharge and automate business processes! Demos,
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The New Exchange

To make a change from the way that a Monday typically starts, Rajesh Jha (Corporate Vice President, Exchange) posted a great overview on Exchange 2013’s features.

This is published on the Exchange team blog.

Exchange 2013 Blog

 

Here are some of the great benefits you get with the next release of Exchange:

  • Reduced costs by optimizing for next generation of hardware

Exchange can now support up to 8TB disks, by reducin… Read the rest “The New Exchange”

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Exchange Server 2013 Forums Available on TechNet

Update: Since Exchange 2013 has now been released the preview forums has been retired, and the RTM forums can now be found here.

Since the Exchange 2013 Preview is now available it is a great chance to see how the next version of Exchange is shaping up!  If you are running to issues then head on over to the TechNet forum for Exchange 2013 Preview and see if the community can help out.

TechNet Exchange 2013 Forums

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Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data

PAL Analyze Captured LogI recently blogged about using PAL to analyse an existing performance monitor log file.  That is great if you have an existing log, but what if this is not the case?  How can we easily capture the correct counters in the log file?  Again PAL can come to the rescue!

Let's assume that PAL is installed as detailed in the previous blog post, if not hit that post and get the tool running.  I’ll wait for y… Read the rest “Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data”

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Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell-Part 3

In the previous articles in this series we looked at the basic aspects of PowerShell and then the underlying mechanisms that are used to connect both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 management tools to Exchange.  These articles can be found as follows:

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How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long

The Microsoft Log Parser is a trusted and venerable tool to have when you are analysing log files.

One issue that does come up when analysing larger Performance Monitor files is that of the default buffer setting in Log Parser.  Typically you will see an error message saying  “log row too Long”.

When running the ExRAP toolset this will be shown in the console:

Error parsing query: Log row too long
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Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files

Have you used Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V; created a snapshot, deleted it and then wondered why the snapshot files are still hanging around?    Like to know what to expect and the EventIDs that are associated with snapshot removal?

Likely you will be familiar with .vhd files which are the disk storage files in currently released versions of Hyper-V.  It is also possible for other organi… Read the rest “Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files”