I am currently in the process of building out a new Exchange 2013 CU6 environment for a customer. Their last server will be placed in a DR site and will host a third copy of all of their databases. After a completing the build of this server with Exchange 2013 CU6 I performed a final…
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Manager’s Team Calendars with Exchange / Office 365 Hybrid
So you’re moving to the Cloud? Your Outlook client is 2010 or 2013? Want to make sure that users do not experience pop-ups in their client? Assuming you’ve done a bit of homework, you have your Client Access Strategy all line up. Depending on which Exchange version you have now, your client access might be…
Free Busy Hybrid Troubleshooting
Working with a new Exchange 2007 to Office 365 migration we experienced an issue with free busy between the two messaging platforms. Mailboxes on Office 365 could see free busy for Office 365 and Exchange 2007 could see free busy on Exchange 2007. However, Office 365 could not see free busy for Exchange 2007 and…
Troubleshooting Migration Mailflow
Recently I was working with a customer piloting Office 365 where we had to move from on-premise Exchange 2007 server to Office 365. In doing so we installed an Exchange 2013 server to be their Hybrid server during the pilot and possibly for the entire move to the cloud. After all the relevant infrastructure is…
Product Documentation – Important or not?
Importance of Documentation As a messaging consultant my clients look to me for advice on their messaging environments. They want best practices, better processes and in a lot of cases, more information that I can discuss in design sessions. The last one is what I want to focus on for this article. Product documentation, for…
PowerShell, Reporting and Notifications
PowerShell and Reporting. Microsoft has provided Exchange admins / engineers with a feature rich scripting language that allows for some great reporting. However, one off reports and spur of the moment reports are one thing, but an active monitoring system is another. How can these reports be made useful to the average engineer and how…
New Exchange Updates are Out
Microsoft just released their newest Updates for Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013: Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 6 Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 7 Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 14 Perhaps the most anticipated is CU6 for Exchange Server 2013 due to the fact that it fixes an issue in the Hybrid Configuration Wizard…
Exchange 2013 and Quotas
In a previous article I noted an easy way to set Quotas via PowerShell. Now, I explore reporting on quotas and mailboxes that are over the quota that was set for it. One of the attributes I look for While researching some information for this article I ran into an interesting KB article on this….
Exchange Licensing – Enterprise/Standard
Often while working through design features with a client I have to sort through a wish list for DLP, EAS, OWA, Retention Policies, Databases, etc. the client needs to decide if a feature is worth the Enterprise License for the server or an Enterprise CAL for the end user. I find it quite an exercise…
Migration Conundrums – Quotas and Mailbox Arrangement
Performing an Exchange Migration requires a lot of pre-planning and even some research before any work is done. Two often overlooked items are how to sort the mailboxes into the new Exchange Server databases as well as mailbox quotas. How will the mailboxes be arranged – by size, name, random, department, etc.? For Quotas will…
