Month: April 2012

Hi folks, Today I got a weird issue that took me quite a long time to figure it out and I would like to share with you guys. Everything started when a brand new DAG was deployed and everything went just fine during the installation process however during the initial testing I noticed a RPC averaged latency performance counter really high. In the figure below you can see how bad was it and I the server had just a few users that were part of my pre-pilot phase. I’ve done a couple of tests, as follows: – First, I ran … Continue reading RPC averaged latency performance counter really high…

Hi folks, If you are using a load balancer and your design decision was to use Kerberos instead of NTLM for the CAS Array and you are a couple of good reasons for that you may want also to create a procedure to change the password for the Computer and then update the Client Access Server that use that account. During the deployment probably you used a script like this one to set the password, right? RollAlternateServiceAccountPassword.ps1 –ToArrayMembers ArrayName.domain.local –GenerateNewPasswordFor domain.fqdn\ASAAccount$ If you want to change that password every month for example we can run the following cmdlet: RollAlternateServiceAccountPassword.ps1 -CreateScheduledTask … Continue reading How to use a script to change the ASA (Kerberos) password using Exchange Server 2010

Hi folks, In Today’s post we are going over the process to allow a user to send message as a Distribution Group in Exchange Server 2010. The first step is to find out which group we will be assigning the permission and it can be easily done through Get-DistributionGroup name* and using wildcard it’s easy to narrow down the results to get just the name that we are looking for. Now, that we have the name we just need to assign the permission using the following cmdlet Add-ADPermission<Group-Name> -ExtendedRights Send-as –User “DOMAIN\Username” Time to do some testing.. Let’s open a … Continue reading How to configure Send As permission in a Distribution Group

Hello Folks, Exchange Team released a new set of Rollup Updates for Exchange Server 2010 and 2007, as follows: Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2: Released- Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3: Released- Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio Technorati Tags: Exchange,Server,Rollup,Updates,Hello,Folks,Team,Update,Service,Pack,Cheers,Anderson,Patricio,Portuguese,Twitter,andersonpatricio Windows Live Tags: Exchange,Server,Rollup,Updates,Hello,Folks,Team,Update,Service,Pack,Cheers,Anderson,Patricio,Portuguese,Twitter,andersonpatricio WordPress Tags: Exchange,Server,Rollup,Updates,Hello,Folks,Team,Update,Service,Pack,Cheers,Anderson,Patricio,Portuguese,Twitter,andersonpatricio

Hi folks, In this post we are going over a couple of points that you should be aware when using extensions with Lync and I hope it can help you to solve some incoming calls issues when using Lync and extensions at user level when using a Media Gateway. Lync and E.164 recomendation… Microsoft recommendation is to use E.164 when assigning numbers on Lync which means a regular phone in Toronto 416-333-6666 would be something like tel:+14163336666 using E.164. We can also take advantage of extensions using a single main number to all users and that can be done easily … Continue reading How to use extensions for incoming calls in Lync Server 2010

Hi Folks, In some cases the administrator may want to delete content of a mailbox located in Exchange Server 2010. The first step is to create the search query that you want to use and you can use your own Outlook to get the string right. In the following example we are making sure that any message sent or received prior to 01-January-2012 and if the results are the expected you can save the query. The second step is to use the Search-Mailbox and use the string that we tested above with the –SearchQuery attribute and –DeleteContent. The syntax is … Continue reading How to delete messages using Search-Mailbox in Exchange Server 2010