TechEd North America 2012 sessions
With the TechEd North America 2012 event still running, recordings and slide decks of finished sessions are becoming available online. Here’s an overview of the Exchange-related sessions: EXL304 – An...
View ArticleReview: Exchange Data Center Switchover Tool (Updated)
Last week, the Exchange team released what they called the “Exchange 2010 datacenter switchover tool” (note that the title mentions troubleshooter). The tool could prove helpful to some and can be...
View ArticleExchange 2013 Unattended Installation Script v1.5 (Updated)
I’m pleased to announce that the Exchange 2013 unattended installation script has been updated and supports fully automated installation of Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The new version...
View ArticleClearing AutoComplete and other Recipient Caches
Anyone who has participated in migrations or transitions to Exchange has most likely encountered or has had to work around potential issues caused by the nickname cache. A “cache,” also known by its...
View ArticleExchange can’t start due to misconfigured AD sites
Recently, a customer had issues with their Exchange server which didn’t start properly after rebooting. After checking out the Eventlog, I noticed the it was full of messages, generated by all...
View ArticleLoad balancing Exchange 2010 using a KEMP Virtual LoadMaster
In an earlier blog, I mentioned the requirement for an external load balancer when co-locating Exchange server roles, because Failover-Clustering and Network Load Balancing (NLB) are mutually...
View ArticleConfiguring Anti-Affinity in Failover Clusters
Many customers nowadays are running a virtualized Exchange environment, utilizing Database Availability Groups, load balanced Client Access Servers and the works. However, I also see environments where...
View ArticleBlocking Mixed Exchange 2013/2016 DAG
In the RTM version of Exchange 2016, there’s an issue in that it is allows you to add Exchange 2016 Mailbox servers to Exchange 2013 Database Availability Groups, and vice-versa. As stated in the...
View ArticlePublic Folder Hierarchy and Client Access
When investigating performance issues of a multi-node, multi-role Exchange 2013 server deployment, I found the CPU utilization of a single Exchange 2013 server constantly above the load of the rest....
View ArticleResults Install-Exchange15 survey
A short blog on a small survey I’ve been running for some time now on the usage of Install-Exchange15, the PowerShell script for fully automated deployment of Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016. I started...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....