Exchange 2013: Exchange MGMT Pack and Role Calculator released

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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

Exchange 2013: First detailed sizing information emerged

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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

Edit or create Outlook profiles

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Outlook profiles can be created and distributed via OCAT and PRF files, which also works quite well, but sometimes it is a bit of a crap shoot. If you "just want to swap" the Exchange server name, you should take a look at RichProfile. The tool is free and makes swapping the server name very easy (also via the command line in ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Extremely fast log file growth (from the life of an admin)

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Today was one of those days... let's not go there. It caught me cold today. The monitoring of the Exchange environment was not running properly and the impending catastrophe was only noticed when it had already occurred. Within a few hours the Exchange log partition was full of transaction logs. When users reported that no more mails were being received and ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Information on the architecture

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Note: This information resulted from a conversation and is therefore to be understood as an unfiltered transcript. The Exchange 2013 environment consists of the "All-in-One" Mailbox Server role and the CAS role, which has little in common with the 2010 CAS role. The CAS role in the sense of 2010 is also located on the Mailbox Server, which ... Read more

Sophos UTM 9.1 now with Outlook Anywhere support via WAF

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The long-awaited update for Sophos UTM was released today. Michel has published a detailed article with changes. With regard to Exchange, this feature is particularly interesting: WAF: Outlook Anywhere Passthrough Support 15089 Support for Outlook Anywhere via the Webapplication Firewall The Webapplication Firewall now supports Outlook Anywhere (RPCoverHTTPS). I will test it ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Manage out-of-office assistant from the shell

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The out-of-office assistant can also be conveniently managed via Exchange Management Shell, so if a user has forgotten to switch on the assistant before going on vacation... Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage "I'm not here" -ExternalMessage "Dear customer I'll be back soon" to switch off Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Disabled You could also build a nice template, ... Read more

Brainstorming: Exchange Reporter 2013

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Hello dear readers, maybe some of you know my Exchange Reporter for Exchange 2010. Michael Kunesch has pointed out to me that there are some problems with Exchange 2013. According to feedback from some users, the update function and the installation are also a bit tricky. Since I have not found the time for a long time now to ... Read more