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”
When I was running Windows 8 I ran into an issue importing VMs with the error “Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import” and discussed it on the blog. The presence on the .exp file was causing the import to fail. Since I had to rebuild my corporate laptop, I hit a related the same thing in Windows 8.1 but with a different error message.
Importing the same set of lab VMs to Windows 8.1 gave me a di… Read the rest “Hyper-V Encountered An Error While Loading The Virtual Machine”
Happy New year to everyone!
We are all eagerly waiting to see what new and exciting changes are present in the world of messaging this coming year. Exchange 2013 CU4/SP1 is coming soon and so is the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in Austin, Texas. 2014 certainly promises to be an interesting year!
In terms of my focus you will start to see more Office 365 content here on the blog, but on-premi… Read the rest “Welcome To 2014”
In the previous posts on RBAC we have looked at customising various roles to ensure that the role contained the minimum amount of cmdlets. RBAC provides even more granularity, and we can add or remove specific parameters from a cmdlet. Since some folks asked for examples on this topic here are a couple of quick examples and some considerations….
If you want to use ECP, please read all the way down… Read the rest “How To Add Or Remove Cmdlet Parameter From RBAC Management Role”