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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
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
As with Exchange 2010, an architecture poster has now also been published for Exchange 2013. I like to have it to hand as an overview. The poster can be downloaded here http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/06/10/exchange-server-2013-architecture-poster-pdf-download-available.aspx Here is just a small excerpt
The Server Role Calculator, which is very helpful for sizing, has now also been released for Exchange 2013. With the Role Calculator it is possible to determine the hardware requirements for an Exchange 2013 organization. The Role Calculator can be downloaded here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Exchange-2013-Server-Role-f8a61780 The Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has also been released, ... Read more
The first detailed sizing information about Exchange Server 2013 has appeared in the Exchange Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/05/06/ask-the-perf-guy-sizing-exchange-2013-deployments.aspx There is not yet a calculator like Exchange 2010, but according to the article this will come. Since I wanted to make my life a little easier, I made a little Excel spreadsheet myself, I'm ... Read more
