Exchange 2010 & 2013 Active/Passive Database IOPS Reduction

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you can see, Microsoft has made a tremendous number of improvements with the way that Exchange Server manages it’s storage in DAG environments. Passive database copies generates fewer IOPS (a 50% reduction), and failover happens more quickly than ever Read More …

Exchange 2013: Activate Your Exchange Receive Connector

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVery small video, just showing which default connector you should active in your Exchange 2013 organization. All you have to do is to browse through the different receive connector, double click on it and save, and that would do the 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.

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v6.1

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToo many people have been asking me for the calculator, and I am tired of sending it by mails. now here is it. Quoting from the site “Microsoft has released the Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator long back Read More …

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 …

New hyper-v Online resize virtual hard disk in Windows Server 2012 R2

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new Generation 2 Hyper-V that comes with Windows Server 2012 R2 having an extended feature rich capabilities. The summary follows: Feature or functionality New or updated Shared virtual hard disk New Resize virtual hard disk Updated Storage Quality of Read More …

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Preview Installation (PDF)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd here is the file I have distributed earlier to my friends of net-workers. This pdf file explains the Installation of Active Directory, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012 and finally step by step installation of the Syctem Center Configuration Read More …

Issue an SSL Certificate (PKI) for Exchange Server 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesPrimarily we can configure our AD to offer Certificates by installing the PKI infrastructure. This way we can configure the Root CA and have it configured to deploy for Exchange Server 2013. For internal purpose this is a common criteria Read More …