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The company F5 was kind enough to provide me with a demo version of the current LTM version 11.4. Many thanks at this point for the friendly support from F5. The provided demo license contains not only the loadbalacing feature, but also some other very interesting features. This article is about ... Read more
Users often forget to maintain their out-of-office note in Outlook when they are on vacation, for example. A possible solution would be to automatically enter the out-of-office note if a central calendar is maintained that users invite when they are on vacation. I have created a small script for this purpose, which queries a calendar via EWS and automatically ... Read more
A somewhat tougher nut to crack, apparently the impersonation feature suddenly stopped working for some users. A UC software was no longer able to retrieve the contacts from the user's mailbox. Unfortunately, the software returned an error message like this: "Does not work" There were also no entries in the event logs on the Exchange server and ... Read more
The CU2 for Exchange 2013 RTM was released today. It can be downloaded here: Installation instructions and a list of changes can be found on the Exchange Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/07/09/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-2.aspx A schema update is also required. As usual, the CU2 is the complete Exchange package, so almost 1.4 GB must be downloaded.
When migrating from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013, it makes sense to distribute the mailboxes alphabetically to the new Exchange 2013 databases. I have therefore created a script that divides all mailboxes of a source database into the target databases according to the first letter of the name: param ( [string]$Database , [string]$Defaultdatabase , [bool]$CreateMoveRequest ) write-host " Process ... Read more
I have migrated my Exchange 2010 server to Exchange 2013, so far everything is fine. However, the old-school login screen from the TMG server bothered me. Of course, it still has the "old" Exchange 2010 look and the design doesn't fit Exchange 2013 at all: So I did the work to customize the login page of the TMG server, ... Read more
There is now also a MAPI/CDO for Exchange 2013, which can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39045 A description of how profiles can be created can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2013/05/21/how-to-mfcmapi-create-mapi-profile-exchange-2013.aspx And here is also a howto on how Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 can be addressed, which is particularly helpful during migrations: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2013/05/27/omniprof.aspx
Yesterday I issued a certificate for my new Exchange 2013 server, yesterday everything worked fine. Then today this error message when I tried to start the ECP: And the event log is also completely red with the event 1003: [Ecp] An internal server error occurred. The unhandled exception was: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Invalid provider type specified ... Read more
HP has released a new version of the Sizer for Exchange. The tool makes it very easy to find suitable hardware for an Exchange 2013 organization. Similar to the Mailbox Calculator, the parameters can also be defined quite precisely in the HP tool. The Sizer then recommends which HP hardware is suitable. Here the ... Read more
I just came across a great tool, the Session Downloader program can download talks and presentations from Microsoft events (TechEd and Microsoft Management Summit). I found a few interesting things right away. The tool can be downloaded here: http://infoworks.tv/session-downloader/ .NET Framework 4.5 is required to run the program, which is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=30653
