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Exchange 2010 is currently still frequently installed, mostly to migrate Exchange 2003. If you want to replace Exchange 2003 and use Exchange 2013, you also have to take the intermediate step via Exchange 2010. Since Exchange 2010 SP3, installation on Server 2012 is supported, but a few requirements must be met beforehand, especially if the ... Read more
Today it's that time again. It's Sysadmin Day! The holiest holiday of the year, so it's time to treat yourself: it was delicious, by the way :-) Now it's time to take the plane back home. I wonder if Michel starved to death in the engine room! http://networkguy.de/?p=507 I hope he got his cake :-) Greetings to all sysadmins who ... Read more
After an update of the Exchange Server there was a problem that the search no longer worked. The index showed no problems, but no results were displayed in OWA and Outlook: The problem is due to "Symbolic Links" in the registry, which may no longer be correct after an update. However, there is a script in the Technet which ... Read more
To complete the setup of the Active Sync Clients, here are the instructions for the current Blackberry OS 10. The instructions for the other smartphone operating systems can be found here: Windows Phone 8: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=1232 Android 4: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=621 iOS, Android 2.X, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=302 But now for the setup: Select "Settings" on the start screen Then ... Read more
And once again extremely fast log file growth in the Exchange environment. I had this problem once before, when it was iPhones with the iOS bug. This time, however, there were no affected iPhones to be found. https://www.frankysweb.de/exchange-2010-extrem-schneller-logfilezuwachs-aus-dem-leben-eines-admins/ In this case, the Exchange User Monitor helped me to identify a user who had caused the problem. ... Read more
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
