Assessing Like A Microsoft Technician

2012-03-10 5 min read Active Directory Active Directory Exchange Exchange 2010 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Troubleshooting Like A Microsoft Technician

I have been doing more and more site assessments for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, and VMware. As such, I’ve been slowly refining the toolset that I use to gather data and troubleshoot existing environment issues. Here is a list of site assessment tools I’m finding that I regularly return to for rapid analysis or information gathering at a site. All of these tools are free.

Exchange 2010: Changing an invalid DNS suffixed server

2012-03-01 5 min read Active Directory Active Directory Exchange Exchange 2010 IIS Microsoft Networking Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

I ran into an interesting Exchange 2010/2007 co-existence issue today. After a new Exchange 2010 (all-in-one) server was introduced into the environment traffic would only flow from the 2010 server to the 2007 hub/cas server and not the other way around. The mail queues stated the last error to be

Exchange 2010: Client Access Role Configuration Report

2012-02-04 1 min read Exchange Exchange 2010 IIS Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Ok, so I woke up and was wide awake at 4am this morning. I took it as a sign to lose my mind for a while and get to hacking another script. The result is a client access setting report script which includes all internal and external paths along with their authentication settings. It needs some prettying up and a bit of love but it does exactly what I’ve wanted in Exchange 2010, gives me an overall view of all client access settings (specifically related to IIS). Continue reading

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