Exchange 2013 is ready!

Exchange 2013 has been in RTM status since today. So it won't be long before the new Exchange Server is available. Volume licenses with Software Assurance contracts will be able to access Exchange 2013 from December 1, 2012. Exchange 2013 will then be generally available from the 1st quarter of 2013. Click here for the article ... Read more

Site finally back online!

Many people noticed and I could hardly keep up with answering all the emails. My site was offline for almost a week. Unfortunately, the previous host was not very competent when it came to troubleshooting. There were/are routing problems in the data center. But I took advantage of the downtime and moved this site to another hoster. So the site is finally online again. ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Active Sync Error Event ID 1100 Method request HTTP Options not allowed

I had this error a bit more often now. Active Sync is not possible the ExRCA reports the following error (method request HTTP Options not allowed): The Exchange account can still be set up on the smartphone, but no mails can be synchronized. The following error appears in the event log: Source: MSExchange Active Sync ID: 1100 The Exchange ActiveSync device requirements ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Preview released

The Exchange Server 2013 preview was released today. An overview of the new features can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/07/23/the-new-exchange.aspx The Exchange Server 2013 preview can be downloaded here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973395.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_116_1_33 The download is 1.36 GB in size. I am of course very excited about the new version and will start the installation tomorrow morning. Of course on ... Read more

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate available

The release candidate of Windows Server 2012 was published by Microsoft today. If you want to take a look at the new Microsoft Server, you can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_33 I did this, of course, to get an impression of the new operating system. The last version I had installed was the beta, which was still called Windows 8 Server. ... Read more

Exchange Reporter: Version 1.1 is ready

Version 1.1 of the Exchange Reporter is ready for download. New features: Overview of the IIS certificates of the Exchange servers On request Exchange errors of the last 7 days on the event logs of the servers Operating system information of the Exchange servers (version and service pack) is displayed Size of the offline address books is displayed A few more values ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Write mailbox size and mailbox limits to CSV file

Another script from the Quick-and-Dirty series: To quickly write the mailboxes and the limits at mailbox level to a CSV file, the following script can be used: "Name;IssueWarningQuota;SendQuota;SendReceiveQuota;Size" | add-content "postfaecher.csv" $mbxlist = get-mailbox foreach ($mbx in $mbxlist) { $size = Get-MailboxStatistics $mbx | ForEach-Object {$_.TotalItemSize} | ForEach-Object {$_.Value} $name = $mbx.Name $IW = ... Read more

Exchange Reporter 1.0 ready

Version 1.0 has just been made available for download. The main reason for the quick update is that there was a problem with the display of Outlook rules, which has now been fixed. Umlauts in the report now also work. You can update from version 0.9. If the report for "mailboxes near the sending limit" is activated ... Read more