In part 10 of my series on the new Exchange Server 2013 RTM EAC, I will be covering the Server Tab. The Server tab is a centralized place to manage your server, databases, DAGs, Virtual Directories and Certificates. I find this tab to be most useful during setup of new Exchange 2013 Servers. From the…
Group Membership Approval – PowerShell Manipulation
Recently I had an issue with a client where they noticed that a couple of groups they were a manager did not look the same in their Outlook client. One would be in bold and he could edit the list and the other was not bolded and he was not able to edit the list….
Discontinued features from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013
As with the previous article on Exchange 2010 to 2013, a migration from Exchange 2007 to 2013 will also see multiple changes. That list is on the same page as the Exchange 2010 list.
Discontinued features from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013
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:
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…
