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Exchange

Ambiguous URLs and their effect on Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Migrations

May 24, 2013

With the recent releases of Exchange Server 2013 RTM CU1, Exchange 2013 sizing guidance, Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator, and the updated Exchange 2013 Deployment Asistant, on-premises customers now have the tools you need to begin designing and performing migrations to Exchange Server 2013. Many of you have introduced Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 into [...]

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Using Exchange Web Services to Apply a Personal Tag to a Custom Folder

May 21, 2013

In Exchange 2010, we introduced Retention Tags, a Messaging Records Management (MRM) feature that allows you to manage email lifecycle. You can use retention policies to retain mailbox data for as long as it’s required to meet business or regulatory requirements, and delete items older than the specified period. One of the design goals for [...]

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Released: Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack

May 16, 2013

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack (SCOM MP) is now live! As I discussed in my Managed Availability article, the key difference between this management pack and previous releases, is that our health logic is now built into Exchange, as opposed to the management pack. This means updates to Exchange 2013 (like our cumulative [...]

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Released: Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator

May 15, 2013

download readme It’s been a long road, but the initial release of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator is here. No, that isn’t a mistake, the calculator has been rebranded.  Yes, this is no longer a Mailbox server role calculator; this calculator includes recommendations on sizing Client Access servers too! Originally, marketing wanted to [...]

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Use Exchange Web Services and PowerShell to Discover and Remove Direct Booking Settings

May 10, 2013

Prior to Exchange 2007, there were two primary methods of implementing automated resource scheduling – Direct Booking and the AutoAccept Agent (a store event sink released as a web download for Exchange 2003). In Exchange 2007, we changed how automated resource scheduling is implemented. The AutoAccept Agent is no longer supported, and the Direct Booking [...]

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Ask the Perf Guy: Sizing Exchange 2013 Deployments

May 6, 2013

Since the release to manufacturing of Exchange 2013, you have been waiting for our sizing and capacity planning guidance. This is the first official release of our guidance in this area, and updates to our TechNet content will follow in a future milestone. As we continue to learn more from our own internal deployments of [...]

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Public Folders and Exchange Online

May 3, 2013

“You mean… this is really happening?” Last November we gave you a teaser about public folders in the new Exchange. We explained how public folders were given a lot of attention to bring their architecture up-to-date, and as a result of this work they would take advantage of the other excellent engineering work put into [...]

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Introducing Message Analyzer, an SMTP header analysis tool in Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer

May 2, 2013

Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web-based tool that provides administrators and end users with the ability to run connectivity diagnostics for our servers to test common issues with Microsoft Exchange, Lync and Office 365. The tool started as Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer, and based on your feedback we’ve continued to add functionality [...]

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Troubleshoot your Exchange 2010 database backup functionality with VSSTester script

April 29, 2013

VSSTester.ps1 Frequently in support, we encounter several backup related calls for Exchange 2010 databases. A sample of common issues we hear from our customers are: “My backup software is not able to take a successful snapshot of the databases” “My backups have been failing for quite a while. I have several thousand log files consuming [...]

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Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups and Disk Sector Sizes

April 25, 2013

These days, some customers are deploying Exchange databases and log files on advanced format (4K) drives.  Although these drives support a physical sector size of 4096, many vendors are emulating 512 byte sectors in order to maintain backwards compatibility with application and operating systems.  This is known as 512 byte emulation (512e).  Windows 2008 and [...]

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