The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell. One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day!
Since I had not see a complete list of the Exchange 2010 ones, I thought I’d jot them down. Exchange 2007 Tips are listed on TechNet.
Scroll down to the bottom for … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”
Most of the time when working with RBAC in Exchange we are not using large scripts to create and manage roles. Generally we use one-liners to configure RBAC. So I thought it would be useful to post some of the ones that I find myself frequently using.
As always please add a comment, or hit me up on the contact page and tell me want topics you want to see added here!
After publishing some recent articles on RBAC, there was some feedback that a primer on RBAC would also be welcomed. So here it is!
It is not Really Boring Access Control.
RBAC = Role Based Access Control. As a concept it is not new, however Exchange 2010 was the first time that it has been natively supported in Exchange. That being said, we still had the concept of roles in Exchange … Read the rest “Exchange RBAC Primer”
When designing an upgrade strategy from an older version of Exchange to a newer one, a question that needs to be addressed is do we need to introduce a version of Exchange that may not currently be present? This may be when upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. If that organisation does not have any Exchange 2007 servers, you need to evaluate if there may be a future requireme… Read the rest “Exchange Upgrades–The Point Of No Return”
Scanning Exchange databases with file system antivirus is a recipe for disaster. This really should not come as a surprise for admins running Exchange services within the enterprise, since this has been the field requirement for a long time. The documentation provided by Microsoft is very clear in what exclusions are required for file system antivirus and Exchange to coexist. For reference the … Read the rest “Exchange and AntiVirus Exclusions – A Critical Conversation”
When troubleshooting various Exchange issues it can be very beneficial to get a network capture to look at the actual packets going over the wire. For example when looking at Outlook connectivity issues we can enable Outlook client logging and RPC Client Access Logging on the Exchange Server. Both are both great troubleshooting tools and while we can solve a lot of issues with that information, … Read the rest “How To Automate NetMon Captures”
Some folks in the field may have seen this before, but it’s worth bubbling up to make sure everyone is aware of it!
I was sitting with one of my esteemed consulting colleagues today and he remarked that it was talking a long time to run one of his Exchange PowerShell scripts. The customer in question is a global organisation with hundreds of Exchange servers in all corners of the globe. My collea… Read the rest “Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets”
If you are looking for a “How To” guide to assist with getting started with Office 365 then you will want to take a look at the latest Test Lab Guides that are now available to TechNet. They were published last week and are hot off the virtual press!
The Test lab Guides are intended to be a series of documents that all leverage a common platform so you do not have to spend time creating a lab from… Read the rest “Kicking The Tires With Office 365”
As part of my relaxing holiday, I spent a fair bit of time upgrading the hardware in my lab and installing Windows Server 2012 R2 onto all of my Hyper-V hosts. I then went through and pruned out some old test VMs and made sure the ones I had left were still relevant.
After I did the upgrade to 2012 R2 and powered on some machines that had been dormant for a few months, actually quite a few months … Read the rest “Hyper-V Could Not Initialize – Could Not Create or Access Saved State File”
Exchange 2010 added multiple features to improve the resiliency of messaging services. Notable additions included client throttling to ensure that a single mailbox would not consume excessive resources and mailbox quarantine.
Mailbox quarantine is enabled by default, and the first time a lot of admins discover the feature is when a mailbox gets quarantined and the user loses access to their mailbo… Read the rest “How To Set Mailbox Quarantine In Exchange”