Ok, yes I know – I said that Part 8 was the last in this particular series – but then Microsoft went and released Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for Exchange 2013 (on April 2nd) which left me feeling that if I did not cover this – then the LAB series was not properly completed. For […]
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 8: Users, Mailboxes, Distribution lists and Public Folders…
Ok, we are now in the final straight in this series with this being the final part of creating a test lab from scratch with Windows Servers 2012 and Exchange 2013. I could in truth perhaps go on forever as there are loads of things that I have not covered. But that is the beauty […]
Distribution List Reporting Tool (DLRT) 2.5
I have been adding a few features to the Distribution List Reporting Tool which I thought that would be useful and I am pleased to announce that I think that it is ready. Hope that you like it. Change History Version 1.0 Initial release Version 1.1 Added in handling for environments where there are no […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 7: Setting up DAG Databases and SSL…
Wow – part 7 – this is now (I think) officially the longest running series that I have written and not forgotten to finish it (don’t worry this is not the end, there is one more part to go). Took a little while to get this one off the deck as there are a few […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 6: Configuring a DAG…
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 […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 5: Installing your first Exchange 2013 Server…
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 […]
OOOCTA (Out of Office Configuration Assistant) – Version 4.0
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 […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 4: Provisioning your Exchange Servers…
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 […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 3: Active Directory Domain Controller: CA Installation…
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 […]
Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 2: Active Directory Domain Controller: AD Installation…
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 […]