Udated 10/12/2014 – Ryan Witschger blog address – the most useful and clear article so far in my opinion explaining how to do the best multithreading tasks, using Jobs and using .Net Multi-Threading in PowerShell V2 Using Jobs:           http://www.get-blog.com/?p=22 Using .NET multithreading           http://www.get-blog.com/?p=189  Microsoft documentation about Jobshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878288%28VS.85%29.aspxPowerShell internals and PowerShell threading (using .NET)http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/261193/ps  The [RunspaceFactory] and … Continue reading Powershell V2 : Links for Multi-threading techniques →

 Exchange Server and Update Rollups Build Numbers (en-US)http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollups-build-numbers-en-us.aspxGreat Barghav, thanks ! *New* Specific to Exchange 2013 and its Cumulative Updates:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15776.exchange-server-2013-and-cumulative-updates-cus-build-numbers.aspx   Other links :Exchange Server Build Numbers and Release Dates up to Exchange 2010 SP1 RU1http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh135098.aspx   Sam

•On an Outlook station of a user who complains about Outlook startup latencies : –From the file-level antivirus on the desktop/laptop, Exclude files present in the following directories (whichever is applying to your Windows version (Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7) %userprofile%Application DataMicrosoftOutlook (Outlook system files) %userprofile%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook (Windows XP/Vista, shortcut to "AppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlook" on … Continue reading Outlook 2007/2010–Some basic advice if you experience odd behaviour, startup latencies, calendar item losses … →

  The security update catalog file, wsusscn2.cab (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=76054) The Windows Update Redistribution Catalog, wuredist.cab (http://update.microsoft.com/redist/wuredist.cab) The authorization catalog file, muauth.cab (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43266) Where to copy them ?in Windows Server 2003 : %userprofile%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftMBSACachein Windows Server 2008 :%userprofile%appdatalocalMicrosoftMBSACache

 (Credits for this research goes to Sathya Narayanan, Microsoft Support Engineer)Persistence : http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/high-availability-recovery/load-balancing-exchange-2010-client-access-servers-using-hardware-load-balancer-solution-part1.htmlTroubleshooting long running MAPI connections to Exchange Server 2010 through Network Load Balancers : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2535656How to setup an Exchange 2010 CAS Array to load balance MAPI : http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2009/12/06/how-to-setup-an-exchange-2010-cas-array-to-load-balance-mapi.aspxMicrosoft Exchange 2010 CAS Array – Steps and Recommendations : http://blogs.technet.com/b/omers/archive/2010/10/11/microsoft-exchange-2010-cas-array-steps-and-recommendations.aspxConfigure Static RPC Ports on an … Continue reading Exchange 2010–Links to how to setup CAS Array with a Load Balancer →

[Please check the updated version of this post here] For Windows 7 desktop users : Exclude all files present in  both below directories: %userprofile%Application DataMicrosoftOutlook %userprofile%AppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlook   Or exclude *.nk2, *.dat, *.srs, *.xml, *.otm, OutlPrnt, *.ost, *.tmp, *.obi, *.dat and *.oab files from these directories  

 Right from a discussion internal reflexions (thanks to Ross Smith IV and Brian Day for their help on putting metrics down), here is the final statement.Based on BES documentation :http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/8864/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange-5.0-US.pdfWe calculated that in summary based on their whitepaper for E2010:IO Multiplication Factor: 2.0Megacycle Multiplication Factor 1.5Use these factors in your calculations, for example in the … Continue reading Exchange 2010–Blackberry IOPS and CPU overhead →