On February 3rd at 6 PM, we will be meeting at the Netrix location at 333 W. Wacker in Chicago. You can sign up for the meeting at our Meetup Site link right here. Please come for networking, content, food and more. Topics for our meetings generally cover Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint, Lync/Skype and PowerShell….
Exchange Analyzer for 2013 and 2016
If you are running Exchange 2013 or 2016 you may have noticed that the latest iteration of the Exchange Best Practices analyzer is a bit lacking. Specifically there is no new tool for Exchange 2016. As of now there is no official word as to when a new tool will be provided or if it…
Exchange 2013 CU10 – Do Not Install (Read On)
Migrations between messaging systems, depending on the environment, can be fraught with plenty of hurdles that need to be overcome. Hurdles like design decisions, sizing the hardware correctly, managing user expectations, transitioning certain pieces without issue, etc. If you were upgrading to Exchange 2013 from Exchange 2007, you may have noticed that the migration process…
Exchange 2013 and 2016 OAB
Exchange 2013 has gone through an evolution in the way the Offline Address Book is generated and maintained. While most of the changes are advantageous, I ran into a chink in the armor while working with a customer who was having an issue with Exchange 2013 DAG replication. We were having issues with their Exchange…
Azure AD Sync – Password Complexity
For a recent Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration, I was with a client setting up Hybrid I ran into another troubleshooting ‘opportunity’. While installing the Azure AD Connector I ran into a Password Complexity error:
Exchange Server 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 URL configuration
I had previously written a script to handle this and found it a bit lacking. This is a brand new script written from scratch and it will handle Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. As of version 1.1, it will only run locally. I will add a remote capability for same level and mixed level…
Prerequisites Scripts – SSL Update!
I know I just updated my scripts for Power Management (v1.8 for Exchange 2013 and v1.2 for Exchange 2016). While doing a health check for a client it dawned on me that I could also add options to disable RC4 Encyption as well as block SSL 3.0 from being used in Exchange. I’ve now added…
Exchange 2016 Prerequisite Script v1.2
Simply wanted to announce that Version 1.2 of my Exchange 2016 Prerequisite script is now up. The new menu looks like this: Hope you find the script useful.
Exchange 2013 Prerequisite Script Update (v1.8)
While Exchange 2013 is about 3 years old now, I still try to refresh my Prerequisite script every now and then. With this latest verison, I have added two Power Management related items. One is to turn off the Power Management on the Exchange Server’s NICs and the other option is to change the Power…
NIC Power Management – Exchange Server 2013 and 2016
Although Microsoft released this guidance a while back, NIC Power Management settings are almost always overlooked in an Exchange 2010 or 2013 environment. With the introduction of Exchange 2016, the guidance has not changed. I’ve put together a script built on a script that was written by Microsoft and modified to be a bit more…
