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Exchange Management IP for Orchestrator 2012 released today!
01 day ago
Today I released my Exchange Management IP for Orchestrator 2012. It is currently available for download at the Microsoft Technet Galleries: GET IT HERE
This integration pack is an addition on the already available Exchange Mail and Exchange calendering integration packs. This IP will allow you to automate all (or at least most of them) Exchange (2010) related management tasks. For example:
- Adding and removing mailbox permissions
- Changing the Quota of a mailbox.
- Mailbox database and DAG management.
All activities are aware of your Exchange environment. There is no need to select a specific server. A server is automatically selected based on availability. There is also no need to install the Exchange Management Console or Powershell cmdlets. All activities use remote Powershell to connect to your Exchange environment.
Documentation is included in the ZIP file which explains most of the features including input parameters and published data. Integration with Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager is possible.
If you would like to have features added please drop me a line. Also you can follow me on twitter (@Bart_Inovativ) to receive updates on my development work and more System Center stuff.
Enjoy!
New Exchange IP for Orchestrator – Icon set
22 weeks ago
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
Orchestrator and Exchange better together – Sneak preview
03 weeks ago
Currently I am working on a new Exchange IP (Integration Pack) for System Center 2012 Orchestrator. With this IP you will have the ability to automate the process of almost all Exchange related tasks. A couple of examples:
Activities are still added day by day. So don’t worry if you are missing some activities.
All activities are aware of your Exchange environment. There is no need to select a specific server. A server is automatically selected based on availability and Active Directory Site. There is also no need to install the Exchange Management Console or Powershell cmdlets. All activities use remote Powershell to connect to your Exchange environment.
Within this blogpost I will give you a sneak preview about one of the activities which are part of the IP.
Changing the mailbox quota of a user
For the Change Mailbox Quota activity three input properties are required.
- Mailbox (the username, alias, DN of the mailbox you would like to change)
- Mailbox Quota (the size in MB of the quota)
- Warning Percentage (when should a user be alerted)
Within this example we are going to change the mailbox quota of my own mailbox. Currently I don’t have a quota applied to my mailbox (lucky me).
Below a screenshot from my Exchange mailbox properties.
Features for the Exchange 2010 IP for Orchestrator 2012
03 weeks ago
I am currently working on a new or extended Orchestrator 2012 integration pack for Exchange Server 2010.First (test) release will hopefully be released next friday (april 27th). It will include the following activities:
| Enable-Mailbox |
| New-Mailbox |
| Delete-Mailbox |
| Disable-Mailbox |
| New-AcceptedDomain |
| Remove-AcceptedDomain |
| New-ReceiveConnector |
| Remove-ReceiveConnector |
| New-SendConnector |
| Remove-SendConnector |
| New-DistrubtionGroup |
| Remove-DitritibutionGroup |
| New-ClientAccessArray |
| Remove-ClientAccessArray |
| New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup |
| Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup |
| New-MailboxDatabase |
| Remove-MailboxDatabase |
Current release schedule:
- First beta (0.1): April 27th
- Second beta with additional features (0.2): May 7th
- Release Candidate with bug fixes (0.5): May 20th
- Final first release (1.0): May 27th
If you would like to see additional features for this integration pack or want to take part of the testing phase please let me know @twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/Bart_Inovativ)
Microsoft releases SP2 for Exchange Server 2010
05 months ago
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.
- Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company's unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
- Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
- Protection and compliance – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company's communications and meeting regulatory requirements.
You must accept the license terms for the software before you are authorized to use it. There is no product support for the trial edition of the software. You are welcome to participate in the forums to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice.
Exchange Powershell: How to import accepted domains from CSV file
07 months ago
During migration projects a lot of customers asks me how to import all accepted domains the easy way. The script I provide below is very basic but it will save you a lot of time.
But first create a CSV file with on the first line AcceptedDomains. Insert all your accepted domains on seperate lines starting from the second line.
$File = Read-Host "Please enter location and filename of the CSV file (example: D:TempAcceptedDomain.CSV)"
# Reading of all lines within the specified CSV file.
$list = Import-Csv $File
foreach($entry in $list) {
# Reading the AcceptedDomain variable from the CSV file.
$AcceptedDomain = $entry.AcceptedDomain
# Running the powershell command for creation of all Accepted Domains.
New-AcceptedDomain -Name $AcceptedDomain -DomainName $AcceptedDomain
}
Microsoft releases rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1
011 months ago
Source: Microsoft Exchange blog
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center.
This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU1. See 'KB 2509910: Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1' for more details. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:
- 2519359 Unable to Create a 'Reply With' Rule on Public Folders Even With Owner and Send As Permissions
- 2394554 Generating DSN fails if original mail uses non-support encoding charset.
- 2490134 Outlook 2007 does not deliver "Delayed Delivery" Messages against an Exchange 2010 Server in Online mode with any additional Transport loaded in the Outlook Profile
Some of the above KnowledgeBase articles are not replicated/live at the time of writing this post. Please check back later in the day if you can't reach them.
Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 is currently scheduled to release in August 2011.
General Notes
Note for Exchange 2010 Customers using the Arabic and Hebrew language version: We introduced two new languages with the release of Service Pack 1, Arabic and Hebrew. At present we are working through the process of modifying our installers to incorporate these two languages. Customers running either of the two language versions affected are advised to download and install the English language version of the rollup which contains all of the same fixes.
Exchange 2010: Remotely create a mailbox
11 year ago
I have created an script which will remotely enables a users mailbox.
# This powershell script creates a remote mailbox.
# Created by Bart Timmermans
$Server = Read-Host "(Please enter the hostname of your Exchange 2010 Server)"
$User = Read-Host "Please enter the username (domainuser)"
$ServerFull = "HTTP://" + $Server + "/Powershell"
# Start session to remote Exchange 2010 server.
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri $ServerFull -Authentication Kerberos
Import-PSSession $Session
# Create new mailbox
Enable-Mailbox -identity $User
Upcoming articles
11 year ago
Next week you can expect the following articles on this blog.
- How to deploy Microsoft Certificate Services on a Windows Server 2008 R2 core server (3 parts for the Root CA and 2 parts for the Issuing CAs)
- How to encrypt drives on a Windows Server 2008 R2 core edition without an TPM.
- How to automatically deploy machine certificates (WPA(2)-Enterprise, SCCM native mode) using Active Directory Certificate Services.
- SharePoint and Opalis better together 1: How to create users with Exchange mailboxes using SharePoint 2010 and Opalis.
- SharePoint and Opalis better together 2: How to create a workflow which will authorize users to a product specified within a SharePoint 2010 form.
- How to create custom Opalis Integration Packs (OIP) to execute commands on Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010.
Microsoft released roll up 2 for Exchange 2010 SP1
01 year ago
Microsoft released the second roll up for Exchange 2010 SP1.
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB2425179.
Download the roll up here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0059546f-f43d-4c7e-8367-81c6d5642bf3&displaylang=en
