Many Exchange 2013 Hybrid installations go without a hitch. The hybrid configuration wizard in Exchange 2013 just goes click next, next, next and so on. However, there are times when the Hybrid wizard does something unexpected and your have to review the error message / logs in order to see what went wrong. First Run…
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Exchange 2013 Room Lists
Imagine an international law firm or manufacturer that has locations around the world. Now assume those locations have multiple conference rooms or even multiple buildings with multiple conferences rooms per those buildings. Locating the appropriate room might have taken a carefully constructed namespace that satisfied both IT staff and end-user alike. With Exchange 2013 has…
Lab Setup – Script – Part3
The third article in this series will continue the Lab Setup Script. This part of the script I wrote will cover these options: mobile device policies, retention tags/policies, enabling archives, OWA policies and configuring APPs. In the next article I will cover more advanced functionality for existing features and also demonstrate lab cleanup for resetting…
New and Updated Exchange 2013 Performance Guidance
Microsoft just released a new compilation of their Exchange 2013 Performance Guidance – here.
Migration Issues to Office 365
I’ve written a few blog posts on problems I’ve seen while moving users to the cloud. Recently a client of mine experienced the normal one or two issues connecting mailboxes to the cloud. However, he went through our check list of updates, new profile and checking attributes (remote mailbox – email address, email addresses in…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 9
As part of my series on Quick PowerShell stuff, I like to share brainstorms or ideas that I have that lead to usable scripts. This script is usable in relative terms, but I think it is more of an exercise of what you can do with PowerShell. The script also reveals some information that I…
Removed Cmdlets for Exchange 2013 CU6 and CU7
When commands are removed, usually there is some warning either in documentation or help files or noticed while running the commands themselves. Just like everything else in the world, there are exceptions to the rules. In this case we are looking at commands that have been removed with very little fanfare from Exchange 2013 in…
DLP Custom XML Generation Script
I just posted my updated version of the XML Generation script that I published here on my blog: Section One Section Two Section Three It can now be downloaded on the Tech Net Wiki Gallery:
Lab Setup – Script – Part2
The second article in this series will continue the Lab Setup Script. This part of the script I wrote will cover these options: populating calendar entries, populating task entries, configuring impersonation, mailbox quotas, DLP policies, and adding a disclaimer. In the next article I will cover mobile devices, retention policies, enabling archives, OWA policies and…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 8
PowerShell and scripting solutions. If you haven’t noticed on my blog, I’ve written quite a few PowerShell Scripts and one liners that I have used to solve my everyday problems in Exchange. While I think that these scripts might be helpful, I also wanted to provide some sort of insight into how I get from…
