Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks: Monitoring Performance By reading performance counters from services such as SQL Server or Exchange, you can get a wealth of performance information. By automating the process of... 01 July 2015 13 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks: WMI, CIM and PSWA WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is the basic way of querying and changing basic information about any windows server, including SQL Server or Exchange Server. It... 28 May 2015 12 min read
Jaap Wesselius Office 365 Essentials – Subscriptions and Licenses Should you be planning to move from Exchange to Office 365? If so, why? What sort of license should you get, and should you use... 08 August 2014 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Migrate to Office 365 If you are using Exchange Server 2003, it is worth considering a move to Office 365 instead of Exchange 2012. If you have business reasons... 08 March 2012 10 min read
Krishna Kumar Creating and Configuring a Custom Offline Address book with Web-Based Distribution in Exchange 2010 Using PowerShell The offline address-book (OAB) of Exchange is available when the user is not connected, Since Exchange 2007, it is updated via a Web-based distribution point.... 04 March 2012 9 min read
Jaap Wesselius Exchange 2010 SP1 – A Practical Approach This update of Jaap Wessellius' popular guide to Exchange 2010 covers everything you need to know to install, run and maintain Exchange 2010 SP1.… 17 January 2012 2 min read
Antoine Khater Extending Exchange 2010 Shadow Redundancy Cross Forest When a customer asks for an Exchange Server feature that you have no idea how to implement, and you just get one item coming up... 01 December 2011 8 min read
Jaap Wesselius Recover a Mailbox Server in A Database Availability Group (DAG) When one mailbox server in a Database Availability Group (DAG) is accidentally deleted, then it is supposedly easy to fix the problem, but if the... 10 October 2011 4 min read
Matteo Slaviero TLS/SSL and .NET Framework 4.0 The Secure Socket Layer is now essential for the secure exchange of digital data, and is most generally used within the HTTPS protocol. .NET now... 28 September 2011 26 min read
PowerShell Sean Duffy in PowerShell Disk Space Monitoring and Early Warning with PowerShell Sean Duffy recently had an unwelcome encounter with Exchange Server Back Pressure, which cut off his message flow due to a lack of space on... 15 August 2011 11 min read
Jaap Wesselius SMTP Routing Changed in an Exchange Database Availability Group In Exchange Server 2010 it is possible to make the system more resilient by creating a Database Availability Group (DAG) where the nodes contain multiple... 03 February 2011 3 min read
Brien Posey PST Horror Stories Brien has been on the front line of Systems Administration for long enough to both respect and fear PST files. Though they are a handy... 16 November 2010 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Importing PSTs with PowerShell in Exchange 2010 SP1 Unless you use Red Gate's PST Importer, the import and export of PST files with Exchange 2010 is a complex and error-prone business. Microsoft have... 21 October 2010 8 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration, Part 2 Now that you've created your first DAG in Exchange 2010, you'll need to be sure it's correctly configured for failovers and switchovers, and you know... 20 October 2010 16 min read
Michel de Rooij Connecting the Disconnected in Exchange 2010 Since Exchange 2000, and the introduction of the document retention period it has been much easier to recover mailboxes, disconnect or connect mailboxes to users,... 22 September 2010 12 min read
Ben Lye Identifying Exchange ActiveSync Users with PowerShell Just recently, a problem involving the iPhone/iPod's synchronisation process with Exchange 2007, made it necessary for Exchange Administrators to alert various mail users to upgrade... 26 August 2010 7 min read
Krishna Kumar Increasing Email Size Limits for your High Profile Users in Exchange 2010 If you ever need to set up fine-grained rules to control the maximum size of messages a subset of your picky users' can send or... 26 July 2010 14 min read
Bob Cramblitt Reinventing the Exchange email archiver If you could design an Exchange email archiver from scratch, what would you do differently and how would you bring it to maturity? Bob Cramblitt... 19 July 2010 6 min read
Sean Duffy Manageable and Trim: A Review of Exchange Server Archiver 3.0 Sean Duffy, always keen to be on the cutting edge of making his job as a production SysAdmin as painless as possible, puts V3.0 of... 19 July 2010 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes... 06 July 2010 12 min read
