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.
Here are some of the great benefits you get with the next release of Exchange:
Exchange can now support up to 8TB disks, by reducin… Read the rest “The New Exchange”
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.
In addition the… Read the rest “Exchange Server 2013 Forums Available on TechNet”
I 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”
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:
Hold up! The Exchange product group today announced the availability of the next version of Exchange. This was previously referred to as E15, but we can now call it Exchange 2013.
The bits can be downloaded from TechNet here:
While you are at it, the Office 2013 preview can be found here:
Cheers,
Rhoderick
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
LogF… Read the rest “How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long”
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”
Note: The follow-up can be found here: https://blog.rmilne.ca/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx
Clint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool.
This build contains both fixes and other welcome additional improvements to an ever growing list of templates which is always great to see!
For those who have n… Read the rest “Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released”
An updated System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been released to the Microsoft download center. This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP.
Edit 3-9-2012 Updated MP build 14.03.0038.004 released
EDIT 9-8-2012 - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 is currently unavailable due to an issue.
EDIT 8-8-2012 - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 released.
EDIT 27-6-2012 … Read the rest “Updated Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack – June 2012”
TechEd 2012 North America is almost here, and Twitter will be a great resource to stay atop of all of the great news and announcements.
You can find a list of TechEd Twitter hashtags and also see the official hashtag ttp://www.hashtags.org/msTechEd
Official TechEd 2012 Twitter account: @TechEd_NA
Related hashtag: #msTechEd
Official Windows Azure Twitter account: @WindowsAzure
Related hashtags: #Windows… Read the rest “TechEd 2012 Twitter & Streaming Feeds”