Looks like registration for MEC might be open next week. From the latest MEC email: Anyone out there looking forward to the return of this conference?
How to Prevent Disclaimers on Internal Messages
When creating disclaimers for your corporate email, a good practice is to prevent disclaimers from being added to internal emails. To do this, simply add a condition to your disclaimers. Under Organizational Configuration, click on Hub Transport, go to the Transport rules tab, right click on your disclaimer and select Edit. Click Next, Next, and…
Short troubleshooting checklist for Personal Archives
So you’ve enabled personal archives for all your users, but nothing seems to be working. How do you troubleshoot this? Here is a short list of things to check to make sure you have personal archives enabled: • Did you enable the archive for the user? In the Exchange System Console – Properties of the…
MEC – The Emails
So, have you signed up for your MEC emails? If you haven’t, go here – http://www.mecisback.com/. The website itself seems to be a clue, maybe, as to where the conference will be: Which is here: I’ve received two since I signed up. These emails seem to be teasers of days gone by for MEC. Email #1…
HLBs, Exchange Migrations, and You
With the introduction of Exchange 2010 more environments are deploying HLBs (Hardware Load Balancers) to provide high availability. With the deployment of these device your users can expect a more stable and enjoyable experience with Outlook. However before you deploy your HLBs, testing of the features that will be behind these devices. What should you…
MEC is back?
Just read on the Microsoft Exchange team that they will be bring back the MEC conference this year maybe? I’ve always wanted to go to a MEC, but never made it. The only conferences I’ve done were 2008 and 2011 TechEd. Don’t know what MEC is? Here is a good trip down memory lane –…
Lync 2010 Post Install Tasks
Once you have your Lync environment completed with the Front End, Edge and Archive/Monitor roles, what can you do to further enhance your install? You can install useful tools like these: Lync 2010 Resouce Kit Lync 2010 Best Practices Analyzer One of the quicker ways to install these tools is to use the ‘set-lync2010features.ps1’ PowerShell…
Lync Edge Issues – Sample Troubleshooting
Scenario – Brand new Lync install Two Lync Edge servers with DNS load balancing. Two Front End servers with an F5 hardware load balancer (HLB) in front of those. External full clients fail to login into Lync. Internal Lync clients were working without issue. We concentrated our time on the Lync Edge servers. We looked at the NAT setup,…
Exchange 2007 Disk Space and You
Midway last year I had a client that was constantly running out of disk space on their Exchange 2007 SAN LUNs and this was causing issues on the Exchange servers. They would run out of space on the database drives and the log drives which would subsequently dismount the databases. In order to provide a…
Exchange 2010 Version Hunting
Ever wonder what your Exchange server version is? Thought the GUI or command line would give you all the nitty gritty details? They don’t. Here is a sample taken from an Exchange environment I support: Using this powershell command to check the versions of Exchange: Get-ExchangeServer | fl name,edition,admindisplayversion My results from the script…
