Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
When installing new Exchange 2016 servers, for example for migration, you need to proceed with caution. Exchange servers feel compelled to respond to client requests immediately after installation. The background is as follows: As soon as a new Exchange Server is installed, SCP (Service Connection Point) entries are also created in the Active Directory. The SCP entries are ... Read more
In the last part of the Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 migration, the environment is cleaned up and Exchange 2013 is uninstalled.the first two articles can be found here HowTo: Migration from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 (Part 1) HowTo: Migration from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 (Part 2) The mailboxes and public folders have already been moved in Part 2. ... Read more
It pays to be quick here, Microsoft is offering the first 350 people the opportunity to take the Exchange 2016 exam 70-345 free of charge. The exam must be taken by 12.02.2016. It is a beta exam, but if you pass, the result will remain valid. You can find more information here: https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/archive/2016/01/13/designing-and-deploying-microsoft-exchange-server-2016-beta-exam-now-available#comments Here you can ... Read more
This is the second part of the Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 migration. The first part can be found here: https://www.frankysweb.de/howto-migration-von-exchange-2013-zu-exchange-2016-teil-1/ Now that we have 2 functional Exchange servers, it is now time to migrate the data. Migration of the public folders The first step is to migrate the public folders. In contrast to Exchange ... Read more
I already wrote about the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 here. Today it's the turn of the migration from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016. Foreword This guide describes the migration from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 and is intended to provide an overview of the necessary steps and is therefore deliberately kept simple. Certificates ... Read more
I have just uploaded the new version of "Exchange Reporter". Since a few new features have been added, I have put together a new major version. Here are the highlights: Multilingual (German and English) Exchange 2016 compatible Visual customization of the report and the console output New functions (major update) First multilingual version (German and English) Visual customization ... Read more
In the last 3 parts of the Exchange 2016 Loadbalancing articles I have already tested F5 and Kemp. Both solutions work great. In the fourth and final part, I would like to briefly introduce a free load balancer. Zen Loadbalancer Community Edition. First of all: In my opinion, Zen Loadbalancer is only suitable for demo or test environments, although I also use it in ... Read more
The third part of the Exchange 2016 Loadbalancing series is about Exchange 2016 in conjunction with the Kemp LoadMaster 7.1 (more precisely 7.1-30-75). The two previous parts deal with F5 BigIP LTM and can be found here: Exchange 2016: Loadbalancing with F5 BigIP LTM 11.6 (iApp) Part 1 Exchange 2016: Loadbalancing with F5 BigIP LTM 11.6 (iApp) ... Read more
As already announced, the second part of this article series "Loadbalancing Exchange 2016 with F5 Big IP" deals with a few optimizations on the part of Exchange Server and Loadbalancer. The first part can be found here. Mailboxes for the "Advanced Monitors" LTM can check two mailboxes in the iApp. The user accounts should be set so that the passwords are not ... Read more
Exchange 2016 does not make any major demands on a load balancer. Exchange 2010 still made a few demands on a load balancer (session persistence, affinity), but Exchange 2016 is far more modest in this respect. In principle, simple RoundRobin is sufficient here. I currently have an F5 BigIP LTM in version 11.6 to hand. Therefore there are ... Read more
