For those of you old school Exchange Admins, you’ll remember that the Best Practices Analyzer has been around for a long time. It’s been around so long that most admins today can’t remember a time when it wasn’t readily available. Until now. As has been stated in many blogs (mine included), Microsoft removed the tool…
Tame Those Pesky Exchange URLs
Now most people don’t build a new Exchange server everyday, every week or even every month. However, as an IT consultant I am constantly build, trashing and rebuilding labs with Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013. Every time I build a new server I need to set the URLs to the environment that I am building….
Exchange 2013 CU2 – What’s New – Part 2
This article is a continuation of my CU2 released post located here. Looks like Microsoft added another Script into the scripts directory for Exchange 2013. This new script is called ‘Install-OutlookServiceVirtualDirectory.ps1’. What exactly does this script do for you? According to the description in the script itself: “Create XROP virtual directory on CAFE server”. Now…
Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group – Next Meeting (11/8)
For those of you who missed the last meeting in August, we are holding the second meeting of the reborn MMCUG (Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group) on November 8, 2013. The location will be at the Microsoft facility in Downers Grove, IL. We are still working on the agenda / list of presentations for…
Exchange 2013 and BES 5
If you work for a company that supports Blackberry ‘smartphones’ you know that Exchange upgrades need to be planned, make sure you have all your prep work done, and possibly even have some testing done. With previous versions of Exchange the preparation work was very similar, with some minor tweaks for the different version of…
Troubleshooting a Public Folder Migration to 2013
Migrating Public Folders from 2007/2010 to 2013 requires quite a different process than any previous Public Folder migrations. With the architectural changes made in 2013 this should be no surprise as we now need to replicate data from a database to a mailbox. As with all migrations there are sometimes things that are out of…
MMCUG Kick Off Meeting
After nearly two years in hiatus, the Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group (MMCUG) is meeting again! This is a bit of a late notice as the meeting is tomorrow (August 21) from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM. More information on the meeting can be found at this site. We will have food, presentations, and…
Migrating Public Folders to 2013 from 2010
So, you’ve installed your shiny new Exchange 2013 Server into your Exchange Org. Now you need to get it prepped for your users to migrate and you want to get a copy of your Public Folder data over to 2013. How do you do this since Public Folder replication is no longer an option? Public…
New Rollup Updates Released
Looks like a series of updates have been released by Microsoft for various versions of Exchange Server. See this article from the Exchange Team at Microsoft. Here is the list of updates: Update Rollup 11 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010…
Outlook Compatibility with Exchange 20xx
This past weekend I moved all of my personal mailboxes from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange Server 2013 CU2. On my client workstation I use Office 2007, which incidentally will be the next software at home to get . What this upgrade brought to me was the normal pain of a user migration where one…
