Plan the Solution (PoC): AD, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Office 365, SQL, Visual Studio TFS

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you are keen to do a PoC on Microsoft Technologies, please follow the link below for the solutions provided after the link. All documents available at the ready so that you can run the PoC at your own discretion. Read More …

Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother exchange based post for calculating the bandwidth requirement for the exchange clients. Link follows: Donload the excel file: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/Exchange-Client-Network-8af1bf00/file/49302/4/Exchange%20Client%20Network%20Bandwidth%20Calculator%20-%20Public.0.48BETA4%20-%20TimeZone.v5.xlsx This is an excel file bearing 288KB of data.

How To Create an Autodiscover Record for Exchange Server 2013/2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst, an Autodiscover record is created in DNS to help mail clients connect to users to their respective mailboxes, as simple as that. Elaboration follows: Why do you need it? All you have to do is create an Autodiscover record. Read More …

Count Email Addresses per Mailbox

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I’ve been struggling to find out how many users are there in a single mailbox…the following worked great after spending 4 hour of time…..wasted…due to lack of knowledge…anyway thought I should share this so that it might save time Read More …

Get All Active Email Addresses on Exchange Server 2013/2010/2007

Reading Time: 2 minutesFriend of mine asked me if I can help him out with his Exchange Server 2013 so that he can find out how many active email addresses are there, and can we produce a list of it or not. So Read More …

What’s Discontinued in Exchange 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLink to the excel file: Discontinued Features of Exchange Couple of my friends were asking for the features that were discontinued in Exchange 2013….and here is the list of it. This is just a screenshot; the link to the excel Read More …

Software Implementation RoadMAP – A Four Year Plan

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis excel (Soft-ImplementationRoadMap–V-4) file took me a long time to prepare. As I was helping out people of same sort (IT), were looking for something like this….to check and balance their progresses in a Yes/No format and all those software’s Read More …

Things to consider if you want to run Outlook 2003 to fetch mails from Exchange Server 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesHello folks, today we will be discussing some items regarding to Outlook 2003; when you tend to fetch your mails from an organization that’s running Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or higher. There are some issues to bear in mind and Read More …

Disable Microsoft Exchange Stale Accounts with PowerShell (Mailbox)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn organizations where too many accounts were setup, and ExAdmins’ primary job to keep the accounts neat and tidy, and this is a handy tool for these admins to find out the stale accounts and disable them and finally in Read More …

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Get User Mobile Device Statistics

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver wondered what types of smart phones or handheld devices are connecting to your Exchange Server? Well, there are some options that we can use to get our desired information. The Get-MobileDeviceStatistics Cmdlet just does what we require. In Exchange Read More …

Create A White-list in Microsoft Exchange 2007,2010 or Exchange 2013 Server

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the heading says, I am going to create a white-list for the exchange server, regardless of it’s versions, starting from 2k7 and onwards 😉 We can achieve this by using a simple process and running certain commands in the Read More …

Core Infrastructure Optimization Model Levels

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for planning, deploying, and operating IT systems and data centers, and who want to implement the technology and procedural concepts of the Core Infrastructure Optimization Model. In the Assess phase Read More …

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 is Available

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify Read More …