Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 6: Configuring a DAG…

by Andy Grogan March 3, 2013

Welcome to part 6 in my series of how you can build an Exchange 2013 LAB using Windows Server 2012. In the previous parts (should you wish to read them, refresh or catch up) can be found below: Part 1 We established our domain design, covered how to provision the Domain Controller for the LAB [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 5: Installing your first Exchange 2013 Server…

by Andy Grogan February 23, 2013

As a quick re-cap from what we have covered so far in this series: Part 1 We established our domain design, covered how to provision the Domain Controller for the LAB in Hyper-V and then how to install Windows Server 2012 on the Domain Controller. Part 2 We went through the process of installing Active [...]

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OOOCTA (Out of Office Configuration Assistant) – Version 4.1

by Andy Grogan February 21, 2013

Recently I released version 4.0 of the OOOCTA, which was a complete re-write of version 3.5 which some years ago (which is now no longer supported). I have had some really great feedback from readers of the site which I have decided to roll up into a .1 incremental release from version 4.0. Specific enhancements [...]

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Quick Tip – Mapping mailboxes to forwarding contacts

by Andy Grogan February 15, 2013

A reader of my blog contacted me the other day with the following question: I am a contractor at my company which is being broken up because of investment developments. I need to do the following. Company has about 4200 users total About 1300 have gone to another company almost all of these have normal [...]

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OOOCTA (Out of Office Configuration Assistant) – Version 4.0

by Andy Grogan February 9, 2013

A long time ago (in a Galaxy far, far away) I released a tool for Exchange 2007 called the OOOCTA. In essence the OOOCTA allowed for administrators to delegate (via a web interface) the configuration and reporting of Out of Office. To be honest, this tool was a little … clunky. Don’t get me wrong [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 4: Provisioning your Exchange Servers…

by Andy Grogan February 2, 2013

So where were we? Ah, yes – in the previous three parts of this series we have covered: The conceptual schematic of what our test lab domain will look like. Established the specifications for each of the virtual machines that we would be using in the Lab. How to provision the Domain Controller for the [...]

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Released-Version 2.0 of the DLRT for Exchange 2013…

by Andy Grogan February 1, 2013

Last week I released version 2.0 of the DLRT for Exchange 2010. This week I am pleased to release a version which is compatible with Exchange 2013 which can be installed on Exchange 2013 servers. Why two versions? Normally I like to try and maintain a single code base for my tools across different versions [...]

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Released–Version 2.0 of the Distribution List Reporting Tool (DLRT)…

by Andy Grogan January 27, 2013

NOTE: If you would like to install the DLRT on Exchange 2013 – please use the version that has been posted here: http://www.telnetport25.com/2013/02/released-version-2-0-of-the-dlrt-for-exchange-2013/ A couple of weeks ago I released Version 1.0 of the Exchange Distribution List Reporting tool. Since then there have been a couple of updates to the original 1.0 code (versions 1.1 [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 3: Active Directory Domain Controller: CA Installation…

by Andy Grogan January 20, 2013

In the previous two parts of this series I took you through building a Windows 2012 server on Hyper-V Server and then in the second part took you through the process of installing Active Directory Domain Services. For reference these two posts are here and here. In this part of the series I would like [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 2: Active Directory Domain Controller: AD Installation…

by Andy Grogan January 19, 2013

In the previous part of this series (Part 1) I took you through to the point where you now have a basic Hyper-V guest which can be used as the domain controller for your Exchange 2013 Test Lab. In this part I would like to take you through how you can install Active Directory on [...]

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