Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelow is the complete diagram for an organization for 500 users. This design includes the following Microsoft Services: Page-1: Complete Design Topology Page-2: Exchange Server 2013 Design Topology with DAG Page-3: Lync Server 2013 Design Topology with PSTN Page-4: Active Read More …
Category: Exchange Server 2013
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 based posts
Exchange Server 2013 – Manage Mailbox Databases
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe following command would give you some serious level of statistics that can also be daunting for you 🙂 Get-MailboxDatabase <Database-Name> | FL The right side of the result is omitted, but focus on the left side of it, what Read More …
Block E-Mail Attachments on Mobile Devices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver curious about blocking users attachments from their mails? In their handheld devices? Run the following command to check if the policy is set or not as a default option for all mail boxes under Exchange Server. Get-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy And since Read More …
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Operating System (OS) Requirements
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA friend of mine requested this; as you might already know that Exchange Server 2013 can be installed on Winwk12R2 and also optimized. But none the less older versions of windows server do support Exchange 2013…and the list follows Exchange Read More …
Channel9 Video: Deploying and Managing Exchange Server 2013
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a continual effort to let IT folks know that how these Exchange Server 2013 solution works, how to manage and maintain it. Microsoft released those video’s in the Channel9 site on October 2013. Content follows: Read More …
Active Directory, Exchange & System Center Solution Proposal
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOriginal post was made at the Article TAB @ https://www.mobs-bd.org/?page_id=1479 Releasing this document for generic access which was previously released to certain companies. This document focuses deployment for the Active Directory within a 2000 user-based organization with the messaging services; Read More …
Exchange Server 2013: Show Build Number, Edition, and Version
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document simply gives you the knowledge on how to get your Exchange Server box information, not the hardware, only the software name, edition & version. The actual distro released on: Â Exchange 2013 version General availability date Build number Release Read More …
Exchange 2013 CU3 Update
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCumulative Update 3 for Exchange 2013 is available for direct download from Microsoft site. It contains a total of 23 documented fixes. The most notable fix is that Internet Explorer 11 no longer loads OWA Light instead of OWA Premium. Read More …
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 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.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Installation (PDF)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd here is the final distribution of the document “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Installation” in pdf format….people been asking for it and the link for the pdf download follows: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Installation
Exchange Server 2013: Exchange Administration Center (EAC)
Reading Time: 2 minutesEAC is web-based management console in Exchange 2013 which is replaced EMC in Exchange 2010. The MMC base console used to be slow when it loads and new business logic in Exchange 2013 forced to have new EAC in my Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Developer roadmap for Exchange
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWas wondering about this topic and found out the following….coders out there, this info is for you guys. Click for larger picture.
Exchange 2003 Support in Outlook 2013
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany friends of the networkers were asking me this question, why can’t outlook 2013 fetch mails from Exchange 2003 Server? While my Android/iOS can? As a techie you can understand that there are various reson’s for it, but cannot explain Read More …
Outlook 2013: OST Cache Behavior
Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople been asking me about their version of Outlook 2013 Experience, and seeking explanations of Outlooks formations regarding Offline Storage files, which has OST extension. Allow me to explain that a bit. The new OST is much smaller than the 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 …
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Visual Only)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new video is uploaded to my YouTube channel few hours back. The Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation is somewhat recorded earlier with some presence of friends. Audio is omitted because we were chatting about features of Exchange Server 2013 Read More …
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Installation on Windows Server 2012
Reading Time: 6 minutesSo, what are you waiting for? Let’s Start Installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013! It is understood that you have already installed Windows Server 2012, and promoted the server as a domain controller, and the DC needs to be the Global Read More …
How to Create a Send Connector in Microsoft Exchange 2013
Reading Time: 3 minutesHello folks, today we will discuss about how to create a send mail connector in Exchange Server 2013. By the name of the connector you might have the idea that what it actually does? Well, very simple, it creates a Read More …
Add or Create a Disclaimer in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s topic I will show you all how to add a disclaimer message to all outgoing mail that leaves your Exchange 2013 organization. In previous Exchange Server versions this was achieved by using a transport rule. Exchange 2013 is 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 …
Community Connect: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Technical Overview Deep Dive
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd as you can imagine this event is organized by Microsoft for the EPG accounts, where I took a long session for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Technical Deep Dive session. From left to Right: Sabeel, Me, Mallick, Asif And the audience Read More …
Community Connect: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Exchange Server 2013 Technical Overview Deep Dive
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYup and this free event occurred on February 28th 2013. This event was organized by Microsoft PS accounts and was held at Microsoft Office Conference room. And a picture follows: Audience was 26.
Create Bulk Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 & 2013
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA fast process we require to do often; to create multiple mailboxes at one go… And the Script Follows: (Study the script please for your future growth) $numberofMailboxes = Read-Host “Enter the Number of Mailboxes you want” $EnterPrefix = Read-Host “Enter the Prefix of the Account” $GettingPassword = Read-Host “Enter the Password for the accounts” $Password = Convertto-SecureString “$GettingPassword” -Asplaintext -Force $GettingEmailSuffix = “((Get-AcceptedDomain)[0]).Name” $mail = “@”+”$GettingEmailSuffix” For($i=0;$i -le $numberofMailboxes;$i++) { $UPN = “$EnterPrefix”+”$i”+”$mail” $Name = “$EnterPrefix”+”$i” New-Mailbox -Name $Name -Alias $Name -UserPrincipalName $Upn -Password $Password } And Read More …
Single Exchange Server Environment: Re-Create A PowerShell Virtual Directory
Reading Time: 2 minutesDO IT IN A LAB ENVIRONMENT FIRST….ALWAYS TEST Effected Machine: Exchange Server 2010 In this blog I will show you how to recreate Powershell Virtual Directory in a Single Exchange Server Environment. We need to create this Powershell Virtual Directory when Read More …
A New Frontier for Exchange Server 2013 Keys and Licensing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new release of Microsoft Exchange is available right now, though it was released couple of weeks back. The editions are: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Edition (can store up to 50 Databases per server) Microsoft Exchange Server 2013Â Standard Edition Read More …
Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 – Repair .pst files
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you get an error that your outlook .pst file is corrupted and outlook cannot start because the primary mail file is corrupted, this is how you repair the .pst file… This is the location of your scanpst.exe 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 …