Following on the Exchange 2013 script that I have for installing prerequisites, I’ve completely revised the code for Exchange 2016. The code has also been streamlined for the Windows 2012 (R2) Operating System. I’ve removed some older options such as Filter Packs and disabling IPv6. There is now an option to change the power plan…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Exchange CU9 Migration Issues
It seems that with every migration I do I see unique errors, quirks or bugs that I have not seen before. Recently I was working with a customer who was upgrading from Exchange 2007 to 2013. A pretty common scenario now that Exchange 2013 has been out for two years and Exchange 2007 is creeping…
Public Folders Visibility and Access – Exchange 2013 and Office 365
Public Folders are still around in Exchange 2013 and they have been incorporated into Office 365 (it is Exchange Online after all!). During a recent migration, a client of mine was consolidating multiple organizations. While doing so, mailbox and Public Folder data will be consolidated to a single DAG cluster. While the entities were to…
Public Folder Migration – Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 Required *UPDATED*
Quick note on the migration process. Microsoft has recently updated their Public Folder documentation and require higher levels of Exchange 2007 and 2010: The Exchange 2010 server needs to be running Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 or later. The Exchange 2007 server needs to be running Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 or later. I was going through…
BYOD In a Cloud World
Over the course of the past year or two as my clients have transitioned to BYOD as their primary mode for providing smartphones to their employees, I’ve noticed a greater emphasis by them on trying to find out what Office 365 / Exchange provide natively for device security. As such, the conversations transition to what…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 17
In this latest installment, I am going to revisit a script I had written before that is now in it’s second major iteration. The first iteration was just to simply be able to scan all event logs for a list of servers that your typed in and look for Critical, Warning and Error messages in…
Thanks again Microsoft. MVP for my third year.
For my third year I’ve been honored to receive the Microsoft MVP award for Exchange Server. I’ll spare you the video from my post two years ago… I will just say thanks again and I hope to live up to the MVP ideals.
Tip for Moving Public Folders to Office 365
Much has been written about the demise of public folders and its eventual removal from Exchange Server 2xxx. Yet, here we are in 2015 with Exchange 2013 AND Office 365 supporting Public Folders. The purpose of this post is not to rehash old topics or anything of the sort. It is merely a quick tips…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 16
For this quick post on Powershell, I will tag a previous post for a complimenting pair of scripts. The script in this article will check to see who will be affected when databases are put back in order of Activation Preference. In a previous script – Quick PowerShell Stuff 13 – we were able to…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 15
In this next quick PowerShell post, I am going to cover a quick way to look at your database copies. This script will look for failed copies of the database. I wrote this because of a client I have that have over 150 databases and over 500 copies of all of their databases. This script…
