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Use Exchange Web Services and PowerShell to Discover and Remove Direct...
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...
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Released: Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator
downloadrelease notesreadmeIt’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....
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Released: Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack
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...
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Using Exchange Web Services to Apply a Personal Tag to a Custom Folder
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...
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Log Parser Studio 2.0 is now available
DownloadSince the initial release of Log Parser Studio (LPS) there have been over 30,000 downloads and thousands of customers use the tool on a daily basis. In Exchange support many of our engineers...
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Adventures in querying the EventHistory table
Beginning with Exchange 2007 the Exchange database has had an internal table called EventHistory. This table has been used to track the events upon which several of the assistants are based and for...
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Managed Availability and Server Health
Every second on every Exchange 2013 server, Managed Availability polls and analyzes hundreds of health metrics. If something is found to be wrong, most of the time it will be fixed automatically. But...
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Released: Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 2
downloadrelease notesToday, we released Exchange Server 2013 RTM Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) to the Microsoft Download Center. In addition to this article, the Exchange 2013 RTM release notes (updated...
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Announcing the Jetstress 2013 Field Guide
Due to the success of the Jetstress 2010 field guide, we have decided to continue the tradition by releasing an updated version of the guide for Jetstress 2013. As with the previous version, the aim of...
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Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Issue - Public Folder Permissions Loss After PF Mailbox...
Late yesterday we became aware of a specific issue with Exchange 2013 RTM CU2. This issue only occurs within native Exchange 2013 environments that are leveraging Modern Public Folders. The issue...
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A significant update to Remove-DirectBooking script is now available
A short while ago, we posted an article on how to Use Exchange Web Services and PowerShell to Discover and Remove Direct Booking Settings. We received a lot of constructive feedback with some noting...
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Managed Availability Monitors
Monitors are the central component of Managed Availability. They define what data to collect, what constitutes the health of a feature, and what actions to take to restore a feature to good health....
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OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad are now available!
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of OWA for iPhone and OWA for iPad, which provides even more value to organizations on any Office 365 subscription that includes Exchange Online. OWA...
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Life in a Post TMG World – Is It As Scary As You Think?
Let’s start this post about Exchange with a common question: Now that Microsoft has stopped selling TMG, should I rip it out and find something else to publish Exchange with? I have occasionally tried...
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Part 1: Reverse Proxy for Exchange Server 2013 using IIS ARR
For a long time, ForeFront TMG (and ISA before it) has been the go-to Microsoft reverse proxy solution for many applications, including Exchange Server. However, with no more development roadmap for...
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Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) version 1.1 is now available
On Friday, July 19, the OffCAT team released OffCAT version 1.1 to the Microsoft Download site, replacing the original version of OffCAT. There are many new features, diagnostic rules, and fixes in...
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Now Available: Updated Release of Exchange 2013 RTM CU2
On July 12th, we announced that Exchange Server 2013 RTM CU2 contained an issue that could result in the loss of public folder permissions when the public folder mailbox is moved between Exchange 2013...
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A reminder on real life performance impact of Windows SNP features
I think we are due for a reminder on best practices related to Windows features collectively known as “Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)”, as it seems difficult to counter some of the “tribal...
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Part 2: Reverse Proxy for Exchange Server 2013 using IIS ARR
In my previous article we saw that how easy it was to implement IIS ARR as a Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing solution for Exchange 2013. However that option is not the best if you are looking to...
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Part 3: Reverse Proxy for Exchange Server 2013 using IIS ARR
In the two previous posts in this series (see Part I and Part II), we saw the two different options by which we could effectively use IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) as a reverse proxy solution...
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