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How to migrate just about anything

by Nicolas Blank 9 February 2012 Anouncements

I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, [...]

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Using the Exchange Management Shell from C#

by Hannes de Jager 15 November 2011 Exchange

I’m wanting to build on my previous post titled “Using PowerShell from managed code” to show how to invoke the Exchange 2010 Management Shell from managed code. Since Exchange 2007, the primary management tool for Exchange is the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The EMS is really just a PowerShell session with Exchange specific extensions loaded. [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 and PowerShell Remoting

by Nicolas Blank 27 September 2011 Exchange

Today we have another guest blog post, this time by Bhargav Shukla. Bhargav is passionate about many things, including Exchange and PowerShell, so I’ll allow him to introduce himself and afterwards we’ll get on with the post.   Bhargav Shukla is a Sr. Premier Field Engineer – Unified Communications with primary focus on Exchange Server [...]

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Scripting Diskpart with PowerShell

by Martin Coetzer 22 September 2011 Exchange

On my projects I often require many mailbox databases on the Exchange mailbox servers when I do my designs. With many databases I typically also require many volumes to host them on the servers. Creating many volumes is not fun and a very laborious task. So I would naturally look at ways to script this [...]

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Using PowerShell to Bulk Create Exchange users with unique passwords

by Nicolas Blank 20 September 2011 Exchange

There’s a number of articles which detail how to create an Exchange user from a CSV file using Exchange Management Shell, however most of them harvest a password at runtime by prompting the user to type in credentials. The password is then set for all users. However, what if your users all need to have [...]

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Exchange 2010 PowerShell cookbook–Mike Pfeiffer

by Nicolas Blank 8 September 2011 Book Reviews

“Quick Answers to common problems” – I have to agree. A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the [...]

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The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

In a previous post I discussed where it looks like the Exchange product is headed for hosting companies. Today the Exchange product group published a statement which includes: We want to enable our hosting partners to offer the same rich feature set that our on-premises customers are used to. As such, with the release of [...]

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Exchange Deployment Assistant adds “Cloud Only”

by Nicolas Blank 30 August 2011 Anouncements

Before you think that Microsoft no longer support an on-premise version of Exchange, be aware that this is a new option in the Existing Exchange Deployment Assistant. Quoting from the entry on the Microsoft Exchange Blog: To help you sort through the available options and plan your migration to the cloud, we’re happy to announce [...]

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The Future of hosted Exchange

by Nicolas Blank 11 August 2011 Cloud

If you host Exchange or you’re thinking of hosting Exchange, then you live in interesting times. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference hosted a number of sessions which re-enforced the software giant’s view on cloud and why partners should move to all things cloud, however – if you’re an Exchange hosting shop – one session would have [...]

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The Storage Calculator and Virtualization Support

by Nicolas Blank 7 June 2011 Anouncements

v17.2 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator was released yesterday with a number of bug fixes, however it’s not the bug fixes that I’d like to call out, it’s the virtualization support added two releases ago in case you missed it.   When designing for virtual workloads the general guidance has been [...]

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