The script I created to check for Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites has been modified to check for either Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2012 Preview operating systems. Download the updated script here.
Exchange Server 2013 Preview Prerequisite Script – Major Update
After noticing the lack of a script to help install the Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites and creating a basic one for Windows 2008 R2 SP1 OS installs, I’ve taken a few days to make some major updates. The script now checks for either Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2012 Preview for…
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU 4 Released
See the Exchange Team blog here for information: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/released-update-rollup-4-for-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx See the Roll-Up Update page here – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706690 Download the Roll-Up Update here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30478 Twenty two updates were included in this Roll-Up Update. Quick run down of the updates:
Exchange Server 2013 Preview Prerequisites Check – Windows 2008 R2 SP1
In my previous post I wrote a script to install all the Exchange Server 2013 Preview prerequisites. This post is a follow-up to that script. This new script will do a quick check on what should be installed for either the CAS or the Mailbox role for Windows 2008 R2 SP1. Sample results will look…
Exchange Server 2013 Preview Prerequisites Script – 2008 R2 SP1
*** UPDATE *** Just corrected some issues with one of the prereq’s not installing. Also corrected grammar and misspellings. While building my lab for Exchange 2013 Preview I was struck by how much of a pain the prerequisite installation was for my lab so I began working on an install script to handle this. I…
Public Folder Replicas – Moving from 2007 to 2010
What are the overall steps for migrating Public folders from Exchange 2007 to 2010? 1) Create Public Folder databases for each server you want to host Public Folders [remember that DAG replication does not replicate Public Folder databases]. To create the databases: Open up the Exchange Management Console, expand Organization Configuration, select Mailbox and then…
Exchange Address List Upgrade For Exchange 2010
During a recent migration for a customer we were following the article for decommissioning legacy Exchange 2007 servers [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288905(exchg.80).aspx]. One of the steps invloves updating the email address policies to make them compatible with the new version of Exchange. One way to do this is a one liner you can run in PowerShell: Get-EmailAddressPolicy | where…
Quick Powershell Stuff 3
This is my third installment of quick PowerShell Commands I’m using in my daily job. Migrations: During my last migration I needed to create a set of commands for changing settings in bulk on a group of users. In this case we are going to go through the process I use for setting mailbox and…
Checking Out of Office – Exchange 2010 Mailboxes
During a recent migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 we had some users complain that an old Out Of Office message had been set again on their mailbox. To check if a change was made after a migratsion, we decided to check this during the migration. I wrote a PowerShell script to check before and after…
Personal Archive – Follow-up to Opening Issue
A week or so ago while migrating users to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 I encountered issues with the Personal archive not being in the correct place. I’ve now written a script to proactively help with determining that the values in Exchange and AD are correct. Here is the script: $rows = “User,” + “Archive…
