Articles focused around Exchange 2010. There’s quite a lot here around Database availability groups, the OOOCTA (out of office configuration tool), Remove Exchange attributes tool (useful for FUBAR situations).
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Accepts two mandatory parameters – 1) Mailbox Name 2) Text file with OOF Messages Sets the Internal and External OOF Messages according to the text file Accepts two […]
In between some of the other stuff that I have been working on; I have also been thinking about the future of the OOOCTA tool. Currently OOOCTA supports both Exchange 2007 SP 1 (and above) as well as Exchange 2010, however the underling code infrastructure is a little complicated to say the least in order […]
I thought that it would be good to take a break from the development stuff that I have been doing on the site for the last few months and focus on something a little more technical. I hope that the following will help aid some people in their own Exchange HA deployments. Historically I have […]
In around April 2011 I put together an article which made some recommendations for a successful installation of Exchange 2010 SP1 onto Windows Server 2008 R2. Since then as you might expect a number of things have moved on in the world of both Windows and Exchange – therefore I have decided it is probably […]
Note: The download version of this tool has been updated to reflect the lastest version. Just a very quick update to the RUPS tool, taking it to version 1.3a – nothing too major, just a small bug fix to the logic which detects and then manipulates the MSExchangeIS and MSExchangeTransport services – basically if you […]
Before I get into this it is VERY important to point out that this article is NOT supported by Microsoft in any way shape of form. If you have run the Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Hybrid Configuration Wizard and therefore setup a configuration – you are NOT supposed to remove it. If you have […]
Recently I have been doing a quite a bit in relation to Database Availability Groups, Service Packs, Roll-Ups in my lab. In order to test my applications (honestly, I do some testing before I release them) – there is quite a lot of shutting down, restarting and generally messing around with my DAG based Exchange […]
Note: The download version of this tool has been updated to reflect the latest version. Ok, I admit that this is turning into a little bit of a saga – for those of you whom have been following the site recently will know that on the 26th November I released my Roll-Up Encapsulation tool (version […]
Note: The download version of this tool has been updated to the latest released of the tool – this article is still relevant however. Today Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 – and I thought that I would take this as an opportunity to update (again) my Roll-Up tool to support Service Packs […]
I have been making some modifications to my home lab over the last few days, one key change has been to add in a child domain so that I can test Exchange related scenarios in a multi-domain environment. Naturally, once I had created the child domain, I wanted to populate it with some users – […]
Note: The download for this article has been updated with version 1.5 of the tool. Yesterday I published version 1 of my Exchange 2010 Roll-Up encapsulation tool – and today I am releasing version 1.1. The good news is that there is nothing wrong with the original version (i.e. for once I have not had a […]
Note: There is an update to this post located here: http://www.telnetport25.com/2011/11/update-to-the-rups-tool-apply-roll-ups-to-exchange-2010/ Additionally the original installation files for download have been replaced with the 1.5 versions of the tool. There are a number of very good articles around on the web which focus on what the appropriate or best practice method is to apply Roll-ups to […]
Client Access Arrays were introduced in Exchange 2010 as a means to provide High Availability scenarios for RPC clients (MAPI). In previous versions of Exchange RPC / MAPI access was handled by the Mailbox Server role, where OWA and HTTP access were handled by the Client Access Server role. In Exchange 2010 – the Client […]
I am probably the only person in the world whom finds the process of exporting Exchange Certificates to a file within Exchange 2010 a little bit fiddly – in fact – whilst I think about it, I found it fiddly in Exchange 2007. Now that does not mean that I don’t know how to export […]
The Out of Office Configuration Tool Assistant (OOOCTA) was released over 6 months ago and is one of my most favourite tools that I have written, however I accept that it can be a little difficult to setup and get working particularly as there are so many diverse environments out there. Given the above I […]
