Link – Exchange 2013 Load Balancing with CAS servers simply explained
by Steve GoodmanIntroducing Load Balancing in Exchange Server 2013 (Part 1)http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2013/high-availability-recovery/introducing-load-balancing-exchange-server-2013-part1.htmlThanks Steve !
Link - Content Transformation Services + Interaction Management Services – CTS – (Business Logic layer in Exchange 2013)
What are CTS and IMS as referred in the Exchange 2013 architecture slides ? (XSO = Exchange Server Object – structure i.e. properties, attributes, methods associated with the the Exchange Server Object into the AD for example) CTS = Content Transformation Services + IMS = Interaction Management Services both part of the FAST search engine,...
FOPE and EOP differences
Here is what I put together some time ago around internal Microsoft discussions to highlight the key differences between FOPE and EOP:
Spam Confidence Levels / Seuils de probabilité de courrier indésirable
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200686(v=exchg.150).aspx
Exchange Online Protection - EOP/ExO Datacenter location
http://www.microsoft.com/online/legal/v2/?docid=25
Bookmark - SMTP NDR CODEs (Technet)
4.3.1Out-of-memory or out-of-disk space condition on the Exchange server. Potentially also means out-of-file handles on IIS.4.3.2Message deleted from a queue by the administrator via the Queue Viewer interface in Exchange System Manager.4.4.1Host not responding. Check network connectivity. If problem persists, an NDR will be issued.4.4.2Connection dropped. Possible temporary network problems.4.4.6Maximum hop count for a message...
How to take Exchange traces and dumps for Microsoft Engineers – Example for STORE and MSExchange Transport components
Prerequisites We’ll use the ExTra.exe (Exchange 2007/2010 only, not available anymore on Exchange 2013) and ProcDump Tools to take traces that will capture the issue. To take memory dump of Store.exe and EdgeTransport.exe for deep code level analysis. Download ProcDump: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/dd996900 The instructions Scenario Mails get stuck in some servers, not always the same, but the...
Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013 on Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 – Check TCP Chimney Windows settings and status
Hey,If you ever encounter some messages that takes time to be delivered from HUB servers to Mailbox servers (we call this step "Mapi Submission" or "MAPI Delivery") or even from HUB to another HUB in a remote site, and your network don't have bandwidth or latency or general reliability or other configuration issues such as...
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and above – Error putting 2 servers at a time in maintenance mode using StartDagMaintenance.ps1 script
The StartDagMaintenance.ps1 script pauses servers cluster node and blocks chosen servers and databases from being mounted. Here is what it does in the below example, for en environment that has 3 or more Servers with 3 or more database copies per database: Here is the logic used by the script (big thanks to Allan Wang...
Exchange 2010/2013 – How to give permissions to users to manage Universal Security Distribution Lists (must use RBAC)
Users on Exchange 201x who try to update or create a Distribution List may get the following error message: "Changes to the public group membership cannot be saved. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object.” Usually, it’s because they don’t have the permissions (reminder: RBAC only for Exchange...