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New Exchange IP for Orchestrator – Icon set

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2 weeks ago
by Bart Timmermans in , , , , , , , , ,

Yesterday I blogged about my new Exchange integration pack (IP) for System Center 2012 Orchestrator. This IP is still in development. Today I created the icon set for the first 20 activities.

Overview and color coding

I have created a color scheme for all the activity icons. I hope this will improve the user experience of the integration pack.

Integration pack activity icons v0.5

Based on the color scheme I have created the following activity icons.

This is how it looks within the Orchestrator Integration Pack Wizard:

Not all activities are included yet. Still looking for the best icon set from a user experience perspective.

Next blogpost will go about the creation of an icon set DLL with Visual Studio 2010.

Any comments or additions are very welcome.

Kind regards,

Bart Timmermans

Exchange 2010 – Move-Mailbox maxthread removed…use New-MoveReQuest

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1 year ago
by Bart Timmermans in , , ,

One of my favorite Exchange 2007 powershell migration cmdlets was the move-mailbox cmdlet in conjunction with the maxthreat parameter. Microsoft has removed the move-mailbox command from Exchange Server 2010. The new command is New-MoveRequest. A lot of people on the internet are complaining because there is no maxthread option when using the New-MoveRequest cmdlet.

The complete move process within Exchange 2010 has changed. The New-MoveRequest can move 5 mailboxes at the same time while Exchange 2007 without the maxthread option only moves one mailbox at a time. If you are responsible for the migration of mailboxes from Exchange 2003 or 2007 to 2010 you would definitely want a solution to move more mailboxes at the same time.

You should update the following file: MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config. This file can be found within the bin folder of your Exchange installation path.

Use the following procedure to improve the performance of you migration/move commands:

  1. Make a backup of MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config.
  2. Open notepad and edit the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file.
  3. Change the MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB entry to 25.
  4. Change the MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB entry to 25.
  5. Change the MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer entry to 25.
  6. Save the file.
  7. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service.

That should be it. If you have any questions regarding this article please feel free to contact me.

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