Exchange 2013 reverse proxy with IIS + Application Request Routing
If you are looking for an easy way to set up a reverse proxy for not directly publish your CAS on the internet and maybe place it in a DMZ to expose a not domain joined machine, the couple IIS + Application Request Routing (ARR) can do the trick. MRA can also be used to make […]
Exchange 2013 clients get disconnected – The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service terminated unexpectedly
This is a problem that occurred from time to time to a customer with an Exchange 2013 infrastructure consisting of 1 CAS and 2 Mailbox servers. Sometimes, about 1 time per month but sometimes even more frequently, They occurred disconnections by the client whose mailbox was present on one of the mailbox […]
Exchange 2013 enable forward on a mailbox without using contacts
To set up forwarding to an external address on any Exchange 2013 mailbox, you can go to the mailbox properties and configure mailbox features -> mail flow -> enable forwarding. The problem is that the GUI will not allow you to enter a simple address to forwarding to the mail, but you can only configure […]
vExpert 2015 second half announcement
This year, at the suggestion of one of my bosses (Andrea_Mauro) and a colleague (PaoloTTW) I tried to apply for vExpert 2015 because I have now 7 years (more or less) of experience in vmware environment and hundreds of installations, migrations, infrastructures troubleshooting (by which I write an occasional article […]
vCenter in place upgrade from 5.5 to 6
A very simple guide to perform an in place upgrade of vCenter Server 5.5 to version 6. First of all the vCenter machine hardware prerequisites for Version 6: 2 vCPUs 8 GB of RAM At least 15 GB of hard disk space during the upgrade First scaricatevi ISO […]
Get mail enabled public folder list on Exchange 2013
Here are two lines of powershell code to get the list of mail enabled public folders in Exchange 2013, I found a lot of examples around the net, some working but complex other not working at all, others gave back a list in text format but not the real objects… in the end I have put together a few to get […]
Migrating Exchange 2007 -> 2013 “The mailbox server is responsible for generating an Offline Address Book”
When decommissioning an Exchange server 2007 following a migration to Exchange 2013 is likely that you will see this message: The error is clear, you can not uninstall an Exchange server that is responsible for the generation and distribution of an offline address book, so you will first check that all […]
Microsoft online proctored exams
Recently you no longer need to travel to a pearson vue test center to take the Microsoft certification exams. It is in fact beeing enabled the opportunity to take online and supervised exams (Supervised means that you'll have to equip yourself with a webcam through which you will be precisely supervised by a person to prevent someone performs the examination on behalf […]