Microsoft has obviously made a lot of changes from Exchange 2010 to 2013. Not the least are the role changes, interface or HA improvements. Luckily for us, there is a list of these at this site. Here is the list from Microsoft. I will review a few key changes:
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Exchange Server 2013 – Administration – Part 9
** Note this is the second article to from my old series reference Exchange 2013 RTM and not the Preview ** Public Folders have undergone a radical change. Instead of replicating content via the SMTP protocol which Exchange has done for over 10 years now, Public Folders in Exchange Server 2013 are now replicated via…
Exchange Server 2013 – Administration – Part 8
** Note this is the first article in my EAC Administration series that is focusing on the RTM version instead of the Preview version of Exchange Server 2013 ** In part 8 of my series on the Exchange 2013 Preview, I will go over the Mobile device management tab of the EAC. As every Exchange…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 4 – Certificates
In the past two days I’ve produced a couple of scripts designed to reveal tidbits about your Exchange Server, like serial numbers and postmaster addresses. In that vein, I’ve produced a script that will reveal information your servers Exchange certificates. # # Exchange server certificates script # # This script will list the server name,…
Exchange Servers – Serial Numbers via PowerShell
Documenting your Exchange environment is always an important process for Exchange Admins and their organization. Documentation makes the messaging environment easier to support, lessens the scrambling when important information is needed and in general can make your life easier. One of the important bits of information you can gather about your Exchange Servers has nothing…
Postmaster Mailbox check
Let’s say you have 4 domains, domain1.com, domain2.com, domain3.com and domain4.com and you want to find out if you have postmaster mailboxes for any of the domains. You could just run these PowerShell commands get-mailbox postmaster@domain1.com get-mailbox postmaster@domain2.com get-mailbox postmaster@domain3.com get-mailbox postmaster@domain4.com Or you could run the script below:
My Exchange Toolbox
Over the years I’ve gathered a list of tools that I use to help me with troubleshooting the issues or to do certain tasks I need to accomplish with Exchange. I’ve included a short list of some of the more popular tools I’ve used: Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 – brand new tool that…
Exchange Server 2013 RTM – Things Removed Part 1
In this new blog series, I will attempt to explore some features that were removed from the Preview version of Exchange 2013 when Microsoft released their RTM version of the software. Some of these features are minor, some might be major. For this first part let’s take a look at the Exchange Toolbox and exporting…
Exchange 2010 – Cannot remove ‘defunct’ database
Removing databases in Exchange Server 2010 is usually a simple process, even with DAG replication involved. However, things get a bit complicated when the database cannot be mounted on a server and Database Portability is employed. This scenario would play out in the case of a defunct DAG node that cannot be revived quickly and…
Exchange Server 2013 RTM – Scripts
Between the release of the Preview and RTM versions of Exchange Server 2013, several things have changed. The script list included with Exchange has been modified with some scripts being removed and a couple have been added to the RTM version of Exchange Server 2013. Removed from the Preview version enable-OutlookCertificateAuthentication.ps1 GetDatabaseForSearchIndex.ps1 GetSearchIndexForDatabase.ps1 install-BackEndAntispamAgents.ps1 install-FrontEndAntispamAgents.ps1…
