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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)
Exchange 2010 – Move-Mailbox maxthread removed…use New-MoveReQuest
01 year ago
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:
- Make a backup of MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config.
- Open notepad and edit the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file.
- Change the MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB entry to 25.
- Change the MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB entry to 25.
- Change the MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer entry to 25.
- Save the file.
- 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.
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 RTM
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft System Center Team Blog
System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations with a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.
The main addition to this second System Center Essentials release is the seamless integration of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 technology, making it quick and easy for midsize business to begin realizing the cost-cutting benefits of server consolidation using virtualization. SCE 2010 will enable you to rapidly move from a physical to virtual server environment while maintaining the control and simple management you have come to expect from the product.
Download management packs here.
Microsoft releases Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
02 years ago
by Bart Timmermans
in Uncategorized
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 guide, updated for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of System Center Operations Manager. The reader is guided through the step-by-step process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification and design of the required management groups are presented in simple, easy-to-follow steps, helping the reader to design and optimize management infrastructure.
Microsoft releases System Center Essentials 2010 beta 1
02 years ago
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.
You can download the beta here.
Watch the video on TechEd 2009 with all new features.
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft Storage Team
Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and included a demo running FSCT with the HomeFolders workload.
If you are not familiar with FSCT, the download page offers this overview: “File server capacity planning and performance troubleshooting are critical aspects of high-level network administration. Central file servers and distributed client workstations are now the norm in most corporate networks. This structure reduces storage capacity requirements, centralizes backup, increases the availability of files, and simplifies the document revision and review process. However, because data storage and access are centralized, performance limitations impact the entire network population. Accurately projecting the number of users that hardware can support under a specific workload, and understanding when and where bottlenecks occur, are critical to making efficient improvements to the server configuration. File server capacity planning tools can be valuable in choosing new hardware for purchase, identifying the capacity of existing hardware, locating existing bottlenecks, and planning for resource expansion in advance of resource exhaustion. The throughput capacity of a file server can be expressed either as the maximum number of operations per second or a maximum number of users supported by the configuration. These values are influenced by several factors, some of which include processor speed, available memory, disk speed, network throughput and latency, and the speed with which SMB requests are processed.”
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