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Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 4: Configure DAG, CAS Array and Public Folders

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In this series of posts, you can read about the fresh release of Exchange 2013 beta/Preview. The posts are done as “how-to” posts with configuration examples from both Exchange Administration Console (EAC) and Exchange Management Shell (EMS). Earlier parts can be found below: Part 1: Installation guide Part 2: Basic configuration Part 3: Continue of

Traditional Backups using DPM 2012 for Exchange 2010 SP2

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Last week I posted how to restore using EMC, this time it’s up to proof that DPM 2012 (System Center Data Protection Manager) is a software to count on. So here’s a step-by-step guide how DPM 2012 can be configured for backing/protecting Exchange 2010. I’m using a Windows 2008 R2 for the DPM server together

Exchange 2010 Restore to Recovery Database using EMC Networker

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Published: 2012-07-05 Updated: – Version: 1.0 Here’s a complete step-by-step guide for doing restore using EMC Networker for Exchange 2010. Personally I’ve used these steps when doing restore of end user mailbox and/or items that has been lost. Start up “Networker User for Microsoft Applications”, right click Recover and select “Exchange 2010 Recover Session” and

Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 3

It was release yesterday, and I was hoping that it should include the upcoming hotfix for ActiveSync devices regarding the behavior for redirections. But it was not included this time, anyway.. Here’s the team blog, download link and description about the update rollup. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/05/29/released-update-rollup-3-for-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29899 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685289 Quote from team blog: Note for Forefront Protection for

Configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 with Microsoft Federation Gateway

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  Since the topic around configuring Federation using Microsoft Federation Gateway is not very clear in the documentation I decided to create a post around it. The confusion came when SP2 was released for Exchange 2010. One article says one thing and another says something else, things have changed after SP2, that’s why I’m posting

C#.NET – Configure Exchange 2010 Tool

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====== Updated the code again, this time a minor bug in code. Version is now 0.93. ====== Thanks to John A Cook @JohnACook, who found the issue. It’s now resolved, the tool is now updated and working in my lab environment. It was a compilation issue, found out that it was compiled as a x86

C#.NET – Create Mailboxes

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Updated: Version 1.0.1 is released I’ve added the possibility to create Room, Equipment and Shared Mailboxes. The zip file with the application is now updated, one CSV example file is included. ===== This is my 3rd C#.Net application, this one is creating mailboxes based on CSV file (semi colon separated). I’m using FileHelpers for reading

Selected PowerShell commands, output to CSV file

Selected PowerShell commands, output to CSV filepowershell

Here’s a sample on a basic PowerShell script that combines Get-Mailbox, Get-User and Get-MailboxStatistics commands. The specified objects will be saved into a CSV file. You can download the script here. I would be more than happy for any kind of comment or feedback Feel free to use the script below

C#.NET – List all mailboxes

C#.NET – List all mailboxesC#

Since I promised to put the source code and the application here on the blog, so here it is. The source code can be downloaded here. It’s not any kind of advanced application, it lists all mailboxes in the environment it’s connected to. The connection is done by using Remote PowerShell and can be configured

Search for PST files on clients

Search for PST files on clientsdocument-code

Wrote a basic PowerShell script that searches all computers listed in the clients.txt file. Saving the pst files into the destination path. For each computer, a folder is created with the corresponding computer name so that the PST files is collected per client. Before the PST Capture Tool was released I wrote a post about