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Quick Tip–Small issue when uninstalling Exchange 2013 based server which was...
Today I have been busy removing the Release Preview of Exchange 2013 from a number of my lab servers. All was going well until I came to removing Exchange from a couple of Exchange 2013 DAG Servers –...
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Quick Tip–Creating an icon on the desktop for the Exchange 2013 EAC…
This is a very quick tip (with a script) that enables you to create an icon for the Exchange Administrative Centre in Exchange 2013 on your desktop. Whilst perhaps not the most earth shattering tip –...
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EBUCT–Exchange 2013 Bulk User Creation Tool…
NOTE: I have updated the version of the EBUCT.exe from version 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.0.1. The new build contains minor bug fixes that I have found since its release on the 04/11/2012. I have also made some...
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Script to a shortcut icon on the desktop for the Exchange 2013 EAC
Script Description This PowerShell based script will create a shortcut to the Exchange Administrative Console for Exchange 2013 on the Desktop of each Exchange 2013 server which hosts the...
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EBUCT–Exchange 2013 Bulk User Creation Tool
Program Description The EBUCT is designed to create mailboxes within Exchange 2013 in bulk from pre-existing accounts in Active Directory. This is currently a feature which is missing from the Exchange...
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Exchange installs and upgrades the good, the bad and the ugly…
Over the years, I have installed Exchange Server probably thousands of times. In big infrastructures, little infrastructures and everything in between. Luckily the vast majority of those installs have...
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Quick Tip–adding multiple Remote IP Addresses to Receive Connectors…
A couple of weeks back an online buddy of mine contacted me to ask some advice. In essence his company was performing some major upgrades to their MPLS network which required some relatively...
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Quick Tip – Recovering from a missing migration mailbox in Exchange 2013
I have been doing some work with Exchange 2013 over the last couple of days testing some migration scenarios (cannot go into exact detail as a lot of the work is currently covered under Non-Disclosure...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
Times change, people change – and as well all know, technology changes as well. The last part of that sentence could not be more true of Windows, Active Directory and Exchange Server recently. Back in...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
In the previous part of this series (Part 1) I took you through to the point where you now have a basic Hyper-V guest which can be used as the domain controller for your Exchange 2013 Test Lab. In this...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
In the previous two parts of this series I took you through building a Windows 2012 server on Hyper-V Server and then in the second part took you through the process of installing Active Directory...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
So where were we? Ah, yes – in the previous three parts of this series we have covered: The conceptual schematic of what our test lab domain will look like. Established the specifications for each of...
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Quick Tip – Mapping mailboxes to forwarding contacts
A reader of my blog contacted me the other day with the following question: I am a contractor at my company which is being broken up because of investment developments. I need to do the following....
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
As a quick re-cap from what we have covered so far in this series: Part 1 We established our domain design, covered how to provision the Domain Controller for the LAB in Hyper-V and then how to install...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
Welcome to part 6 in my series of how you can build an Exchange 2013 LAB using Windows Server 2012. In the previous parts (should you wish to read them, refresh or catch up) can be found below: Part 1...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
Wow – part 7 – this is now (I think) officially the longest running series that I have written and not forgotten to finish it (don’t worry this is not the end, there is one more part to go). Took a...
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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from...
Ok, we are now in the final straight in this series with this being the final part of creating a test lab from scratch with Windows Servers 2012 and Exchange 2013. I could in truth perhaps go on...
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Released– Exchange Bulk User Creation Tool v2.0 (EBUCT 2.0)…
I guess that I never really finish a tool. There is always something that I can think of to add or a suggestion that someone makes that I want to code in! This is especially true for the Exchange Bulk...
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Exchange 2013 DAG Status Dashboard–version 1.0
NOTE: Version 1.0 of the EXDSD has now been replaced by version 1.01 – all links have been updated to reflect the changes and details of the update can be found here. I have been working for a while on...
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Exchange 2013 DAG Status Dashboard – version 1.01
Today I had a day off work so I decided to have another look at the EXDSD – in particular the “missing” features as described in the release post (which you can read here). What’s missing? At the...
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Some observations on recent articles on TechTarget…
Over the last few months I have done a few articles based on possible cloud scenarios for Exchange 2013 on TechTarget. I have to admit that I have been somewhat taken aback at some of the comments that...
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Exchange 2013 DAG Status Dashboard – version 1.02
Over the last few weeks I have been working on an update to the EXDSD based upon feedback that I have received from the community. I have added in some new features such as being able to control...
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