Exchange Server 2013 – Planning for Public Folders mailboxes according to user logon limits

Since there are some limitations for Exchange 2013 Public Folders, we will focus this little note on the User Logons supported limit, which is 2,000. I briefly mentioned this 2,000 user logons limit on the article about Public Folder limits increase since Exchange 2013 CU8 on a previous blog post. In Exchange 2013, you should … Continue reading Exchange Server 2013 – Planning for Public Folders mailboxes according to user logon limits →

Exchange 2013/O365 and Great Powershell Tips from Microsoft colleagues

I- Use “-Filter” parameter where available instead of “where” statements’ For example, the following commands provide the same results: Get-Recipient –ResultSize Unlimited | Where {($_.RecipientTypeDetails –eq "UserMailbox") –and ($_.DisplayName –like "*Zarka")} Get-Recipient –ResultSize Unlimited –Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails –eq "UserMailbox") –and (DisplayName –like "*Zarka")} In a large environment the first command takes an extremely long time to … Continue reading Exchange 2013/O365 and Great Powershell Tips from Microsoft colleagues →

Reminder – Adding Exchange 2010 or 2013 snap-in using Add-PSSnapin not supported – Better use Remote Powershell (From RMilne)

As a bookmark, my buddy Rhoderick Milne has written an excellent article about the best way to invoke Exchange PowerShell environment (other than loading the “Exchange Management Shell” itself from the Windows menus – for example, if you want to use a Windows Powershell session you’re currently in, or simply the Powershell Integrated Scripting Environment … Continue reading Reminder – Adding Exchange 2010 or 2013 snap-in using Add-PSSnapin not supported – Better use Remote Powershell (From RMilne) →

Exchange 2013 CU8 – Public Folders Limits – some limits updated for “modern” Public Folders in CU8

UPDATE 1 3/19/2015: The Exchange Product Team updated the Exchange 2013 CU8 announcement page with the new PF limits I’m also exposing below – see link and pasted update at the end of this post UDATE 2 3/19/2015: The TechNet Public Folders Limit has been updated too with the new limits – checkout the … Continue reading Exchange 2013 CU8 – Public Folders Limits – some limits updated for “modern” Public Folders in CU8 →

Exchange (2010-2013) RBAC how-to – 2 useful links

This post is just to outline 2 very useful articles to understand and use RBAC role model… 1- Daily operations and getting RBAC info (finding admin rights for a user, finding parameters, etc…) from our excellent and beloved Rhoderick Milne such ase in which RBAC role is a specific cmdlet (example, which RBAC role enable an … Continue reading Exchange (2010-2013) RBAC how-to – 2 useful links →

Exchange 2013 CU8 published !

Hi all, Here is the link to download Exchange 2013 CU8, as well as some useful links and useful information. DOWNLOAD link to the Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2013 (KB3030080) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46373 Some notes from the Exchange Product Group Team as well http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/03/17/announcing-cumulative-update-8-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx Exchange 2013 CU8 – some limits updated for “modern” Public Folders http://blogs.technet.com/b/samdrey/archive/2015/03/18/exchange-2013-cu8-some-new-limits-for-modern-public-folders.aspx List of issues fixed: … Continue reading Exchange 2013 CU8 published ! →

Quick note about the impact of FREAK SSL vulnerability on Exchange

UPDATE: Microsoft released a FIX resolving this SSL vulnerability in our software ! MS15-031: Vulnerability in SChannel could allow security feature bypass: March 10, 2015 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3046049 Hi all, Here is a note about the impact of FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Key - CVE-2015-0204) vulnerability on Exchange (Microsoft Security Advisory 3046015 - Vulnerability in … Continue reading Quick note about the impact of FREAK SSL vulnerability on Exchange →

Exchange and Windows – all versions – NetSH neat cheat sheet

Hi all ! Meet the NetSH Cheat Sheet Excel – this Excel spreadsheet is a tool, but also a document, and a walkthru, which is intended to help people to use NetSH to perform common operations on the network interfaces and properties like setting IP addresses, chosing between automatically assign an IP address (DHCP) or … Continue reading Exchange and Windows – all versions – NetSH neat cheat sheet →

Exchange 2013 – Performance counters and their thresholds

Hi all, the official TechNet most important performance counters list to monitor for Exchange 2013 is now available ! The good news is that since Exchange 2013 is now a single box (-ish as separable CAS role is merely just a protocol forwarder), the counters to monitor are now simplified down to … Continue reading Exchange 2013 – Performance counters and their thresholds →

Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 – Powershell script to dump InternalURLs and ExternalURLs of basic Exchange services

Update: added a slightly modified version of the script to dump these way quicker by using the -ADPropertiesOnly switch along with the Get-WhicheverVirtualDirectory commandlets - this switch doesn't work on Exchange 2007, only works on Exchange 2010 and 2013 (and hopefully Exchange 2016 ;-)) and only reads the URLs in the local GC instead of reading … Continue reading Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 – Powershell script to dump InternalURLs and ExternalURLs of basic Exchange services →