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Hello folks, Today’s review will be about a tool called Lepide Exchange Manager developed by Lepide Software (www.lepide.com) and the version that we are using for this review is the version 12. This tool can be used with Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 and 2010. The trial version of the tool reviewed here can be found at http://www.lepide.com/exchange-manager/. First impressions and overview… Lepide Exchange Manager can be considered a Swiss Army knife for a messaging administrator and because of its neat features it allows a recover from a Disaster within a few steps, and besides of the recover capabilities which caught my … Continue reading Product Review: Lepide Exchange Manager

Hi folks, Microsoft Lync Server and Microsoft Exchange Server utilize certificates to manage encryption and authentication. When certificates expire unexpectedly, network administrators are under pressure to resolve the problem quickly. Fortunately, most trusted Certificate Providers inform customers by email before certificates expire. But what happens when certificates are issued by an internal Microsoft Windows Certification Authority? If customers do not have a monitoring solution, such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, to provide status updates on certificate expirations, it is a real challenge to keep track of scheduled certificate expirations. The Certificate Expiration Alerter is a free tool that helps … Continue reading Certificate Expiration Alerting

Hi folks, Today the MSExchangeTeam has just announced the content missing on the first release of the assistant. You can check the assistant out at http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2010 In November, we launched the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant. In the initial version of the Deployment Assistant, content was available for customers upgrading from Exchange 2003. We are happy to announce that today we’ve released content for the following scenarios to http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2010: Upgrading from Exchange Server 2007 Upgrading from a mixed Exchange Server 2003/2007 New Exchange Server 2010 installation Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/13/453795.aspx Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio Twitter: @apatricio Technorati : Deployment … Continue reading Announcing Additional Upgrade Scenarios for the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant

Hello folks, Do you remember Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer (https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/)? Well, now we have a similar tool for OCS as well, check this out: https://www.testocsconnectivity.com/ Summary: Following on the heels of success of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (created by Shawn McGrath and Brad Hughes), Premal Gandhi (UC Support Escalation Engineer), Matthew Fresoli (Supportability Program Manager) and Jason Stine (Senior Lead Program Manager) have been busy designing and writing a complimentary tool: The Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer. The tool is available at https://www.TestOcsConnectivity.com Overview: The Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site for IT … Continue reading Announcing The Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 is a tool that takes a user through a set of interview questions regarding the proposed or current edge server deployment. The tool interviews users about their perimeter network settings as well as some questions regarding their internal deployment. Get it here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/category/1006.aspx

Hello folks, The planning tool provides you prescriptive guidance to get you started with planning your Office Communications Server 2007 topology. The tool asks you a series of interview questions about the features that you are interested in, as well as information about your organization. Based on the answers you provide, the planning tool draws out a recommended topology based on Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 User Model that has been tested. The planning tool also provides customized links to the appropriate documentation to help you plan and deploy your topology. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06793661-cd69-4490-bb4b-e97dd271209d&displaylang=en Best Regards,Anderson Patricio

Hello Folks, A new release of Microsoft Transport Suite was released today. Microsoft Transporter Suite is a set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from Lotus Domino servers or Generic POP/IMAP servers. Overview Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address … Continue reading New release of the Microsoft Transport Suite

Hello folks, Quest (www.quest.com) has released a free tool called ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory that is a set of PowerShell commands (CMDLETs). Inside of this tool we have got some cmdlets to manage the Active Directory environment, here are the list of cmdlets available in the free tool: CONNECT-QADSERVICE DISCONNECT-QADSERVICE GET-QADUSER SET-QADUSER NEW-QADUSER GET-QADGROUP NEW-QADGROUP GET-QADGROUPMEMBER ADD-QADGROUPMEMBER REMOVE-QADGROUPMEMBER GET-QADCOMPUTER GET-QADOBJECT SET-QADOBJECT NEW-QADOBJECT REMOVE-QADOBJECT CONVERT-QADATTRIBUTEVALUE You can get it here: http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/arms.aspxPs.: Registration will be required Tomorrow, we will be visualizing the new tool called PowerGUI, if you don’t like to write cmdlets that will be your perfect tool 🙂 Best Regards,Anderson … Continue reading Managing Active Directory through PowerShell

Hello folks, We usually see in the MS presentation the guys using a lot of cmdlets and they show the information in the browser directly from the PowerShell.. If you have already seen it, I think you might tried before in your lab without success, right? It occurs because the “out-html” and “out-IE” scripts aren’t found in the default installation. These scripts belong to the Exchange Server 2007 Powershell Scriptacular pack  that were developed by (Vivek Sharma and Mihai Jalobeanu). But why I’m talking about it? Because we are going to use those scripts to generate a report  🙂 First … Continue reading Creating a mailbox usage report using the out-html and out-ie