Frank Zöchling

Frank Zöchling has been writing about Microsoft Exchange Server, PowerShell and Active Directory since 2011. Easy to understand HowTos and troubleshooting are the goal. Frank Zöchling is also the founder of the EUGO: Exchange User Group OWL.

SAN Best Practices for Exchange Server 2013

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Ich möchte an dieser Stelle ein paar Best Practice Anleitungen zum Thema Storage / SAN und Exchange Server 2013 veröffentlichen, bisher habe ich diese Dokumente gefunden: EMC: http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/esrp-white-paper-emc-vnx5700-unified-storage-60000-users-virtualized-microsoft-exchange-server-2013-mailbox-resiliency-storage-solution.pdf Netapp: http://www.netapp.com/us/system/pdf-reader.aspx?pdfuri=tcm:10-113952-16&m=tr-4221.pdf HP MSA: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-7540ENW&doctype=white%20paper&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=keywords=(OR)%20san%20&cc=us&lc=en Hat vieleicht noch jemand Links zu anderen Herstellern / Dokumenten die man hier aufnehmen könnte?

Restore mailboxes from Exchange database with free Veeam tool

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Veeam offers a free option for backing up and restoring virtual Exchange servers. With the Veeam Explorer for Exchange it is even possible to restore individual mails. Exchange 2013 is also already supported. Today I successfully restored a mailbox from a database using Veeam Explorer and exported it to a PST file. The tool is very easy to ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 3: Windows Server 2012 R2 + ARR 2.5)

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Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more

Exchange 2013 Configurator

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Today I finished the Exchange 2013 Configurator version. As in the version for Exchange 2010, a few settings are queried and Exchange is configured accordingly. The following settings are made: Outlook Anywhere URL ActiveSync URL EWS URL OAB URL Autodiscover URL OWA URL ECP URL Accepted domain Default send connector Name of the database Path of the ... Read more

PowerShell: Read out the memory consumption of a process remotely (WMI)

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WMI queries can be used to find out how much memory a specific process requires on a computer. The following script searches for computers with a specific name in the Active Directory and then reads out the working memory of the computer and the process: $Procname = "outlook" $Namefilter = "CLT" $dnssuffix = ".frankysweb.local" #---------------------- $computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter * | ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 2: Sophos UTM 9.1)

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Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more

Exchange 2010/2013: Some entries in the offline address list were omitted by the OALGen. (ID 9327, 9323)

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The error (9327, 9323 Offline address list) is often found in the event log of the Exchange server that generates the offline address book: MSExchangeSA 9327 Some entries in the offline address list "\Global Address List" were omitted by OALGen. To determine which entries are affected, the event logging for the offline address generator must be set to at least "Medium". - \Default offline address book To determine ... Read more

Quick & Dirty: fast Exchange diagnostics in the event of an error

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If there is a problem with the Exchange servers, you should be able to quickly determine the cause in order to fix the problem. I have therefore written a small script which provides the following information when executed: Are the Exchange servers and domain controllers pinging OK? Are all Exchange services running? Are the databases ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Configure managed folders with retention policies

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There have already been a few questions on the subject of managed folders. Therefore, here is a short article on how to create managed folders and configure retention policies. In Exchange 2010 SP3, managed folders and their policies can be created with the Exchange Management Shell. The aim of this howto is to create a managed folder "Private Mails" ... Read more

Determine VSS snapshots on servers

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I have always had the problem that VSS snapshots on servers were not cleaned up. At some point, the hard disk would fill up because the operating systems had countless snapshots that were never cleaned up. I have therefore created a small script that determines the number of active snapshots and the date of the first and last snapshot. $serverlist ... Read more