Various Tips and Tricks
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!
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”
The syntax to install Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) via the command line is pretty straight forward. However there are some common themes that still pop up in the TechNet forums, cases and customers that I speak with. So I wanted to discuss some of the issues that can and will arise. There are a range of issues in here from:
One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”
Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.
Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”
Kris Waters, one of my great colleagues from the US, originally posted a really neat list of items which can mitigate issues found in a lot of large scale Exchange deployments. Please take the time to review her post here. There are a lot of valuable pointers in her blog, so definitely check it out!
In addition there are a couple of other items listed below that you may also want to review.
Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.
Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”