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Exchange Virtual Conference – available online

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 17/06/2013 - 02:43 |
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On exchangevirtualconference.com website you will find video sessions about Microsoft Exchange 2013.

 

The Exchange Virtual Conference is a free, online event featuring presentations by Exchange Server MVPs, and they did great job for us.

Sessions are available on-demand so you can watch them online (Flash is required) or you can download them. 

 

Below you can find links to all sessions:

 

  •  What’s New in Exchange 2013: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J. Peter Bruzzese – In this session we will take a quick down memory lane as we review these enhancements and bring us right up to our day with Exchange 2013. We will focus on major new features like the new Exchange Admin Center, modern Public Folders and more and walk through the interface to ensure you have a clear picture of the scope of Exchange 2013 before you dive deeper with the sessions to follow.
  • Load Balancing Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 – Johan Veldhuis - n this session we will have a look at how we can load balance our Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 environment. First we look at the some load balancing essentials where I will discuss which terms are important. Once we completed this part we will have a look at how to configure your load balancer for Exchange 2010: which configuration options are available,  which things must  be configured on the Exchange side and followed by a demo where I will let you see how to do it. As final part of the presentation we will look at Exchange 2013: what are the differences, which things are important to keep in mind and a demo where I will let you see how to do the load balancer configuration.
  • Exchange Server 2013 Site Mailboxes – Serkan Varoglu - This session presents an overview of Site Mailboxes, a new feature in Exchange Server 2013, as well as a demonstration of the setup and functionality of Site Mailboxes.
  • Upgrading to Exchange Server 2013 - Jaap Wesselius – This session presents an overview of the migration paths for upgrading from Exchange 2007 and 2010 to Exchange Server 2013.
  • Identity and Access Management in Office 365 – Michael Van Horenbeeck – This session covers identity integration solutions for Office 365 hybrid deployments, including a demonstration of setting up ADFS for a hybrid deployment.
  • Exchange Server Tips from the Trenches – Paul Cunningham - This session walks through some real world, hands on tips for managing Exchange Server environments.

 

 

Troubleshooting Lync-Skype Connectivity wiki page

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 14/06/2013 - 02:53 |
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On website community.office365.com you can find website with information about problems with Lync-Skype connectivity.

You will find there information how to resolve common problems like:

  • A Lync user does not receive a contact request from a Skype user
  • A Lync user removes a Skype user, but the Skype user can still see Lync user’s presence and send IMs
  • When a Lync user calls a Skype user, the call sometimes fails
  • Office 365 Small Business customers have External communications turned on, but can’t connect to Skype users
  • Skype users signed in with a new Microsoft account notice a delay of several minutes in seeing the presence status of a newly-added Lync contact

 

You can find there answers on Lync-Skype connectivity problems, and peruse a bevy of tips, tricks, and workarounds for people who are having trouble getting connected.

All information are available here:

 Lync Online Wiki:Troubleshooting Lync-Skype Connectivity

 

Microsoft Lync 2013 TechEd NA 2013 online sessions

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 13/06/2013 - 03:40 |
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Below you can find links to online sessions from TechEd 2013 North America.
All sessions are about Microsoft Lync Server 2013.

 

Microsoft Lync Hybrid Scenarios

Abi Maggu – This session examines the use of Microsoft Lync Online in a hybrid environment for user access, now possible with the release of Lync 2013 to Microsoft Office 365. For existing deployments, using Lync infrastructure already deployed, customers can easily expand their environment into Office 365. New deployments can also benefit by decreasing the on-premises Lync footprint and hosting users online. Benefits of using Lync Online in a hybrid configuration include being able to leverage global infrastructure to provide ease of access, a reduced on-premises server footprint, being able to consume cloud services at your pace, additional capacity on demand, and hosting users in highly available and secured datacenters. Lync Online through hybrid provides both a model for easy expansion and a model for cloud services at your own terms.

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TechEd NA 2013 Exchange 2013 Sessions on Channel9

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 12/06/2013 - 03:20 |
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Just finished TechEd North America 2013, and already you can see through Channel9 sessions that took place there.

 

Below you can find almost all of Exchange 2013 sessions presented at TechEd North America 2013:

Understanding Compliance in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Office

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Bharat Suneja

Organizations are increasingly in need of solutions that help them to meet compliance requirements and protect information. Come learn about our overall Office-wide investments in Compliance in Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Excel, etc.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Managed Availability

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Ross Smith

In this session, learn about managed availability. With managed availability, internal monitoring and recovery-oriented features are tightly integrated to help prevent failures, proactively restore services, initiate server failovers automatically, or alert administrators to take action. The focus is on monitoring and managing the end user experience rather than just server and component uptime to help keep the service continuously available.

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Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Overview Poster PDF

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 11/06/2013 - 10:51 |
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Exchange 2013 Architecture poster presented on TechEd North America 2013 now can be downloaded.

Exchange Team just released a downloadable PDF version of Exchange Server Architecture Poster.

This poster highlights the significantly updated and modernized architecture in Exchange 2013, and highlights the new technologies in Exchange 2013, such as Managed Availability, the new storage and high availability features, and integration with SharePoint and Lync.  In addition, it illustrates the new transport architecture in Exchange 2013

Poster can be downloaded here:

Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster

 

Exchange2013_Poster

 

 

Exchange 2013 CU2 – mailbox databases limit changes

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 11/06/2013 - 03:06 |
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Administrators of Exchange 2010 who have more than 50 databases can now be happy.

Exchange 2013 enterprise has limit of 50 databases per server, but not with CU2 !!!!

Exchange Team has released that many of us have Exchange 2010 environments with more than 50 databases. And during migration to Exchange 2013 enterprise it could be a problem to decrease number of mailbox databases to 50 per server.

So when you install CU2 for Microsoft Exchange 2013, mailbox databases limit for enterprise version will be increased to 100.

CU2 is expected later this summer.

CU2 won’t change number of databases pers server for standard edition, and it will be 5 per server.

More information you can find on Exchange Team Blog:

Per-Server Database Limits Explained

 

 

Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator v20.8

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 10/06/2013 - 01:56 |
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Few days ago we wrote about new version of Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator which has fixed CAS and HT memory calculations formulas to not report #NAME when designing site resilient topologie.

Now we have new version, on 06/07/2013 Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator version 20.8

This version has fixed an error with secondary CAS CPU calculations.

Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator v20.8 can be downloaded here:

Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator v20.8

 

and list of changes can be found here:

Updates to the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator

 

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – script

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 07/06/2013 - 04:00 |
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Till now we wrote two articles about Adminstrator Audit Log.

First described how to enable and configure Administrator Audit Log:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

in second we explained how to search Administrator Audit Log:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – search logs

 

Now we will describe how to automate search of Administrator Audit Log.

During Administrator Audit Log configuration we set, how long audit logs will be stored in a hidden arbitration mailbox.

The command you to configure how long the logs should be kept are presented below:

Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogAgeLimit 60.00:00:00

 

To specify a value of days, use the format dd.hh:mm:ss so in this example logs will be kept for 60 days.

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Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – search logs

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 06/06/2013 - 02:12 |
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We wrote how to enable Administrator Audit Log on Exchange 2010 in last post:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

 

Now we want to explain how can we search logs or export them.

 

We can see logs and export them using:

  • ECP console
  • CMDlet Search-AdminAuditLog or New-AdminAuditLogSearch

 

Using ECP console to search and export logs:

Run ECP console and choose:

  1. In the drop-down list box next to Mail > Options, click My Organization from the Select what to manage list.
  2. Click Reporting, click Auditing, and then click Export Configuration Changes.
  3. Select a date range using the Start Date and End Date fields.
  4. Select the recipient who should receive the XML file using the Select users to email the audit log to field.
  5. Click Export.

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Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 05/06/2013 - 04:20 |
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If your Exchange organization has more than one administrators, and sometimes you need to know who did what, then you should use Exchange Administrator Audit Log.

When you enable Administrator Audit Log it will help you to keep a track of the changes made to any Exchange configuration like:

creating new mailbox, changing receive connectors, transport rules etc.

 

Those information are quite important during troubleshooting your Exchange environment.

In Microsoft Exchange 2010 RTM, Administrator Audit Log logged all operations to mailbox. When you enable audit log then you need to use parameter AdminAuditLogMailbox to specify mailbox to store all audit logs.

But with SP1 for Exchange 2010 you don’t need to use mailbox anymore.

Now all logs are stored in a hidden, dedicated arbitration mailbox.

 

To check if Administrator Audit Log is enabled we should use following command:

Get-AdminAuditLogConfig | FL

 

we will receive information about audit settings like below:

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