Blog
I’ve organized this section into several key categories, in order to make my posts more accessible. Enjoy!
Exchange 2013 Brief – Information Rights Management
Executive Overview: Information Rights Management (IRM) features in Exchange 2013 are used to prevent information leakage or loss of potentially sensitive information, which can be costly to an organization and include financial loss, erosion of competitive advantage...
Exchange 2013 Brief – Site Resilience
Executive Overview: The site resilience features of Exchange 2013 enable an organization to deploy a messaging solution that is able to withstand a site-wide outage. Note that configuring Exchange for site resiliency is but a part of the greater redundancy and...
Exchange 2013 Brief – Unified Messaging
Executive Overview: Unified Messaging in Exchange allows an administrator to integrate Microsoft Exchange 2013 with an Organization's voice infrastructure. Exchange can extend voicemail and auto-attendant functionality that integrates directly with a user's mailbox...
Exchange 2013 Briefs
Hi all! The thought hit me that Exchange has become such a massive beast that it can be extremely daunting for someone to pick up the technology from scratch. So I've decided to put together a compilation of Exchange Briefs: short documents that contain a basic...
Exchange 2013 Architecture Series – Part 2: Message Routing
There's quite a bit to write about regarding the changes to how messages are managed in Exchange 2013, so I've decided to post a separate article on the subject. Notable Changes There are several important things to note regarding how messages are routed in Exchange...
Exchange 2013 Architecture Series – Part 1: Message Transport
In this first article of our Exchange Architecture Series, we will explore the new Transport Architecture of Exchange 2013. I'll try not to repeat a lot of information that is stored on other Sources unless I believe that there is a lot of value to having it in my...
Exchange 2013 Architecture Series
Hello all! I've decided to put up an Exchange 2013 Architecture Series that will feature some of the inner workings and Design Best Practices for Exchange Server. As many of you know, Exchange 2013 is a much more refined beast from previous versions. The management...
Exchange 2013 in Azure Part 4 (Post-Install Configuration)
Okay, so now that we have completed the installation of Exchange 2013 in our environment, it looks like we have a couple more steps before we can actually get email flowing and our users logging in to check their email. ValidationSteps 1. Verify that your installation...
Exchange 2013 in Azure Part 4 (Post-Install Configuration)
Okay, so now that we have completed the installation of Exchange 2013 in our environment, it looks like we have a couple more steps before we can actually get email flowing and our users logging in to check their email. ValidationSteps 1. Verify that your installation...
Exchange 2013 in Azure Part 3 (Installing Exchange 2013)
Okay, now that we’ve gotten past the Installation Prerequisites and we’ve run the setup /PrepareSchema; /PrepareAD and /PrepareDomain scripts and verified that our AD forest is ready for installation, we’re ready for the next step: Installing Exchange 2013. Installing...
Exchange 2013 in Azure: Part 2 (Preparing Active Directory)
In this part of the posting, we will prepare the Active Directory environment for Exchange 2013. Before you begin, make sure to read the posting in the previous section in order to take note of Exchange 2013 prerequisites. Domain Considerations: – If you are going to...
Exchange 2013 in Azure Part 3 (Installing Exchange 2013)
Okay, now that we've gotten past the Installation Prerequisites and we've run the setup /PrepareSchema; /PrepareAD and /PrepareDomain scripts and verified that our AD forest is ready for installation, we're ready for the next step: Installing Exchange 2013. Installing...
Exchange 2013 in Azure: Part 2 (Preparing Active Directory)
In this part of the posting, we will prepare the Active Directory environment for Exchange 2013. Before you begin, make sure to read the posting in the previous section in order to take note of Exchange 2013 prerequisites. Domain Considerations: - If you are going to...
Installing Exchange 2013 in Azure: Prerequisites
*Note that as of this time, production deployments of Exchange 2013 on Windows Azure are NOT supported. This implementation is purely for evaluation and testing purposes. Okay, so how do we go about installing Exchange 2013 in the cloud you might ask? Well the first...
Installing Exchange 2013 in Windows Azure
Following up on Justin Gao’s excellent post on installing Microsoft Exchange 2013, I’ve decided to post a few additional steps for those of you who want to get Exchange up and running in Microsoft Azure. Install Sequence Overview: Microsoft recommends a...
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