We will use  Get-ReceiveConnector cmdlet.

You can plug this into PowerGUI or run it from EMS as shown below

Working with PowerGUI will teach you real fast how to use PowerShell , here is the video to get you started.

https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=1C8A0DB5C88AB3D2&resid=1C8A0DB5C88AB3D2%21743&authkey=APE7v_TXAR4etF4

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

if you do not have it, you can do quick test

Test-Path $profile

If you do not have it you get it “false”

and to create one

New-Item -path $profile -type file –force

This will force to create folder called “PowerShell” under my documents directory

Now short and sweat modifying profile PS1 is typing below PS

notepad.exe $PROFILE

Okay you can copy and paste the information below…

And below I have created folder called on my C drive Admin and subfolder Script and told my profile to connect there anytime it starts. The rest you can play with and adjust based on your preferences.

$Shell = $Host.UI.RawUI
$Shell.WindowTitle=”E15 PowerWay”
$Shell.BackgroundColor=”Black”
$Shell.ForegroundColor=”White”
$size = $Shell.WindowSize
$size.width=125
$size.height=50
$Shell.WindowSize = $size
$size.width=110
$size.height=300
Set-Location C:\admin\Scripts

Now have configured your PS profile based on your needs and ready to play with some of simple scripts which will help you administration of your environment..

References

• Windows PowerShell Manual
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692764.aspx

• Windows PowerShell Profiles

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb613488%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Best,

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

How does round robin work with Exchange 2010 CAS Array deployment was a question I come a cross and wanted to clarify few things.

Now Lets say you have 4 CAS servers names

Lets say you set your CAS Array and modified RPCClientAccessServer attribute to be

outlook.Telnet25.org and all your databases tagged with same attribute.

Now each time your MAPI client want to connect to their respected mailboxes, they will want to locate this name , which is outlook.Telnet25.org, then your workstation will do DNS query to configured DNS servers on its TCP/IP properties and will ask , hey get me the IP address for outlook.Telnet25.org, I want to connect to my mailbox, the DNS server will go to its database and see there are 4 host records for outlook.Telnet25.org and will provide you the first one first now you get the IP address for outlook.Telnet25.org=10.10.10.101 which is CAS01 and CAS01 will let you connect to you your respected database and you start seeing your mails within outlook.

Now imagine 3 other users will do same and each time they go to DNS DNS will perform round robin and hand out IP address for outlook.Telnet25.org in fair order. So at the end of the day if you have 100 MAPI users your CAS load will be something like this

Now all you have done is, to leverage the CAS load , if any of your servers goes down let’s see what happens ?

If CAS01 goes down , now 75 Users will get ***(Disconnected)*** , You opened DNS console in your DC and delete the A record outlook.Telnet25.org=10.10.10.101=CAS Server IP, until the Client DNS catch expires, the client will keep trying to establish connection to its cached DNS information thus outlook continue to go bananas.

Even if you lower the DNS TTL record for outlook.telnet25.org.

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You can do the math if this is a good configuration or not, or you could purchase HLB and point outlook.Telnet25.org to HLB ( Hardware load balancer) IP and let HLB to handle the MAPI load and deal with situations like above without making your clients get disconnected. You can look it up on the net to see what HLB solutions available, some of them are very reasonable to be honest.

Best,

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Everything you need to know is here in this white paper……..

• Understanding the Autodiscover Service
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251.aspx

Now not to be confused the , if you run below cmdlet you will see the default is empty and there is no need to mess with these URL’s as they do not apply , configuring Autodiscover Service.

For whatever reason you have if you want to fill these in this is what you would do

• Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory  -InternalUrl
• Note just change the –InternalURL to –ExternalUrl to set the external one.

Okay what ever reason you did have and set these and did understand these are not the correct URL , here how you can set them back to normal $Null

*Note change the –IntenalUrl to –ExternalUrl

What you want to configure is this one

* Note as you can see the second server mail2 is showing up on the availability services URL which will cause problems if the certificate installed on the CAS server wont have this common name. Some people does not want to expose internal names to outside by publishing within the Certificate some people wont care. IMO this does not create any security risk at all but many places I worked with use common name in the certificate. This is why ( Split DNS scenarios) you  would set two A record in DNS and point to each CAS server ( assuming you have two) so that you would not see certificate name mismatch error.

Okay now hot to set the Autodiscover Service, I recommend reading the white paper first and getting good understanding how it works.

In a very common scenario this would be sample configuration……

• You are running in split DNS model ( split DNS means , your internal name space matches your external name space) in my Lab I do have split DNS and my internal name space is telnet25.org my external DNS name space is also telnet25.org
• You do have valid certificate , in this certificate you do have your common name, in my example I used mail.telnet25.org, and this is included into your certificate.
• You have installed the certificate correctly on your CAS server or servers
• You Set CAS array and did configure DNS to perform round robin , you most likely configured something like this RpcClientAccessServer=outlook.mycompany.com
• You read and understood how SCP works

Okay here are the samples showing how to configure the basic

Modify the Autodiscover URL in the Service Connection Point

*Note make sure fallowing is configured based on your scenario

• https://webmail.smtp25.org  ( Change this , according to your scenario)
• CAS01  ( Change this , according to your scenario)

***

Modify the InternalUrl attribute of the EWS Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity "CAS01\EWS (Default Web Site)" –InternalUrl https://webmail.smtp25.org/ews/exchange.asmx

***

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog )
http://telnet25.spaces.live.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

• Hybrid Configuration Wizard,
• Address Book Policies,
• Outlook Web App Mini and
• Cross-Site Silent Redirection, 

but not limited……Check it out if you have not seen I yet….

Here is download link

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/09/01/3410888.aspx

• now from the link above

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/09/01/3410888.aspx

Identify the GUID of the database that is being added using this command:

On the server specified in the add command, using the database GUID identified, remove the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

• SOFTWARE
• Microsoft
• ExchangeServer
• v14
• Replay
• State
• <db-guid>
• DumpsterInfo

Now compare the GUID’s and delete the ones matches from registry as shown…

Save registry and exit. you should be able to add mailbox database copy now, if Data Bases added goes into suspended mode, just make right click and update DB copy, it will take some time depending upon how big is the DB etc.

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Problem: Install attempt RU XX on Exchange 2010 server is failing with above or similar error

Solution: Run the setup file with Administrator privileges

Cause: Most likely UAC turned on ( no need to try to turn it off )

Now here is the big secret , in old days we were able to say copy and paste into CMD window without typing the full path of the install file, you will quickly realize this is not working on Windows 2008 and you are like come on (-:

on the install file hold “SHIFT” key down and left click to get option “ Copy as path”

Open CMD as administrator and “paste” will work now , Wowwww got to love this, whom ever though of making such improvement into Windows 2008,

Now install will work flawless.

Oz Casey , Dedeal

MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +

Http://smtp25.blogspot.com (Blog

Http://telnet25.spaces.live.com (Blog)

Http://telnet25.wordpress.com (Blog)

Team Calendars , star popping up from people outlook. –Reason: the
AD Attribute called “Manager” is populated see picture
When manager is listed for given user,  outlook is automatically creating calendar in this format  Team: Name of the manager Calendar inside peoples outlook see picture

Fire up reg edit on the problem workstation…..Drill down to fallowing directory

• [HKEY_CURRENT_USER
• Software
• Microsoft
• Office
• 14.0
• Outlook
• Options
• WunderBar

Create reg key if one does not exist “Value disablereportinglinegroupcalendar”

• This policy setting prevents Reporting Line Group Calendar from appearing in the navigation pane.
  If you enable this policy setting, Reporting Line Group Calendar will not appear in the navigation pane.
  If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, My Reporting Line Group Calendar will appear in the navigation pane.

Before

After

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Possible solution: If topology service is not able to figured out what subnet the Exchange server belong too. Simple way to check and fix this will be adding the subnet for the Mailbox server into ADSITE and services. Perform IPconfig /all on the Exchange server figure out what subnet it is sitting on and add the subnet in ADSITE and services, you will need to reboot or , restart net logon and Exchange Services.

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

• Now here how the output would look like

• to export this into CSV file add the fallowing at the end of PS

Export-Csv c:\scripts\DBSize.csv

• Full Script would be like this

• Finally we will plug this into PowerGUI

• Give it a name

Respectfully,

Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)

http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)

http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)