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  • Exchange 2010 – Exporting Mailboxes without EXMERGE

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    I often see customers struggle to make use of the export mailbox features in Exchange Server 2010.  I suspect this is because it is an area that has changed in the last few years and there is a lot of conflicting information online that doesn't clearly...

  • Throttling Policies and Exchange Online…

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    Throttling policies in Exchange Server 2010 have been an often discussed and much misunderstood part of Exchange over the last few years.  Especially with Exchange Online!  However, Michael Mainer has written a great article about Exchange Throttling...

  • Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 operating system prerequisites

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    In order to install Exchange 2010 there are various prerequisites that are required. One of those is .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1, If you try and install the dotnetfx35Setup file you’ll get the following error:- What you’ll need to do is install .NET framework...

  • MCS Talks...

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by msukucc}
    UK consultants are currently presenting a series of webcasts on Technet.  For details of how to register to listen in go to the 'MCS Talks' blog at; http://blogs.technet.com/mcstalks/default.aspx   The following is taken from the blog : "The...

  • Jetstress 2010 and Background Database Maintenance

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    Last week a colleague from the MCM Exchange 2010 community asked some questions about disabling Exchange Server 2010 Background Database Maintenance.  Essentially they wanted to know if they disabled  the checkbox for BDM, what would happen...

  • Enable Mailtips - Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    Steps Action Enable on-premise Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "Office 365 Tenant" -MailTipsAccessEnabled $True -MailTipsAccessLevel all Enable Office 365 Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "On-Prem" -MailTipsAccessEnabled...

  • Updated Combined Role HUB/CAS Scaling Guidance…

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by msukucc}
    Well, its been a long time in the making and I for one have been waiting for a long time for this data to be published publically.  I was fortunate enough to be taught by Bill Thompson at the ECoE during my Masters rotation and he went through some...

  • Exchange 2010 Q&A

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    Hi   please Join me at this event to talk about Exchange 2010, you can register here

  • Cmdlet Extension Agents

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    This is one of those blogs that it’s worth absorbing.. Using Cmdlet Extension Agents to cause automatic events to occur in Exchange 2010 - life just got simpler! by Pat Richard . Cmdlet Extension Agents are something that will be very new to most Exchange...

  • Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    Download Exchange 2007 SP2 and see what's new:-   Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Exchange Backup Functionality Enhanced Auditing Dynamic Active Directory Schema Validation Public Folder Quota Management Centralized Organizational Settings

  • Want more Virtualisation?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    Go to VirtualizationFeed.com and get the latest on virtualisation in Microsoft and in the wider world. Also worth keeping track of what’s happening in the #virtualization community on Twitter at the same place ....( read more )

  • www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    Nice tool to help you sort out problems accessing Exchange from out on the Internet. For more information see the blog on You Had Me At EHLO.. here and there is a quick presentation on Edge.TechNet.com here . Test EAS with Windows Mobile 5, EAS with Windows...

  • Configuring ADFS v2.0 for Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    1              Here are the steps i followed for configuring ADFS for Office 365 (see my previous post for installing ADFS) Steps Action Click, Start, Admin Tools, ADFS 2.0 Management Click ...

  • Exchange Server 2010 News & Reviews..

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    Exchange Server 2010 Reviews Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud (and related slideshow Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Includes Welcome Improvements ) – eWeek First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines – InfoWorld Exchange Server 2010...

  • Exchange Server Supportability Matrix

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by msukucc}
    Over the past few months I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked is “X” version of Exchange supported on “X” OS or against “X” GC’s.  Well, finally someone has put together all of this information in a single location… http://technet...

  • Jetstress 2010 – Stress test problem

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    Recently one of our partner has highlighted an issue in the current version of Jetstress that means the test may run in performance mode when in fact it should be running in stress mode. What's the difference between performance and stress mode? Put simply...

  • JetstressCmd has an undocumented /report command

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    NOTE:  This is reposted here from HMLee’s blog back in 2007 – he is no longer posting to the blog and I wanted to keep this post just in case his blog gets deleted – after all, it is useful information, I have a brain like a sieve and this is probably...

  • Adding and Verifying a Federated Domain

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    Steps Action Launch Microsoft Online Services Identity Federation Management tool At the PowerShell command prompt type Type $cred = Get-Credential In the pop up window specify the username used for online account management (your Office 365 administrator...

  • Friday Dilbert

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    You gotta laugh…...( read more )

  • Outlook Performance Counters are missing…

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    I have been working on a number of Exchange projects recently with cloud integration.  One common area of concern when you move a workload to the cloud is end user performance – will my users have an acceptable experience? To help customers make...

  • Performing a Multi Mailbox Search

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    Steps Action Login to the portal Sign into https://portal.microsoftonline.com as the tenant administrator Add the user to the Discovery Management Role Select ‘Manage’ Under Exchange Online Select ‘Roles and Auditing’ and select the ‘Discovery management...

  • Idle Storage Groups and CCR...

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by msukucc}
    Let's say that over a period of an hour only a very small number of transactions are generated for a particular CCR enabled storage group.  If those changes add up to less than 1MB's worth of transactions and are therefore not sufficient to fill...

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 /Hosting

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by Dan Kenyon-smith}
    This is the process i followed to installed Exchange 2010 SP1 in hosting mode 1. Run the following command: setup /prepareschema /hosting 2. Run setup /prepareAD /organizationName:EXCHANGE /hosting 3. To install individual server roles run:-   a...

  • Support for Virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed..?

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Doug Gowans}
    The support stance for virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed significantly over the last few days and seems pretty unambiguous. However you need to be a bit careful about what actually is and isn’t supported. The statement from Kevin Allinson...

  • Office 365 Deployment Guide

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Neil Johnson [MSFT]}
    I have been involved with a number of Office 365 deployments over the last 12 months, one thing that they have all had in common was struggling to find good sources of information.  Things are generally documented… somewhere.. its just a matter of...