General
- MS Exchange
- Exchange Team Blog
- Answers Microsoft Office
- Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
- Microsoft Security Bulletins
- TechCenter (All Exchange Server Forums)
- Exchange Server and Update Rollups Build Numbers
- Exchange Server 2013 and Cumulative Updates (CU’s) Build Numbers
- Exchange Schema Versions – Common Questions & Answers
Tools
- Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough (GWT)
- Office 365 Mail Flow Troubleshooter
- Exchange Server Mailbox Statistics Tool
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
- Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer (64 bit)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack (more)
- Hybrid Environment Free/busy Troubleshooter
- Exchange 2010 Public Folder Replication Report
- Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator
- Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool
- Multi-Tenancy and Hosting Guidance for Exchange Server 2013
- Exchange 2010 Mailbox Audit Report Powershell GUI
- Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0
- Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant
- Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0
- Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool
- Exchange 2013 Unattended Installation Script
- Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator
- Exchange Tested solutions
- Exchange Server Jetstress 2010
- Install Guide Templates
- Exchange Mailbox Permission Reverse Lookup
- Exchange Automatic Replies Administrator (PowerShell GUI for OoO config)
- Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer
- Exchange Client Network
- Who Can Federate Tool: Check which Outlook contacts have Microsoft Lync
- Bandwidth Calculator
- Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator (description)
- Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Capacity Planning Tool
- Backup Exec calculator
- RBAC Manager R2 for Exchange 2010 SP2
- Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (description)
- Exchange Processor Query Tool (description)
- The Outlook Calendar
- Checking Tool (description)
- Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Tool
- Microsoft Device Emulator 2.0 – Standalone Release
- Exchange 2010 Architecture Report (This script collects information about an Exchange 2010 organization. It generates an output HTML report to present all the collected data. With this report you can see very quickly what is working and what is not.)
- Exchange 2010 Datacenter Switchover Troubleshooter
- Sizing is the key to good performance. Read Exchange 2010 Sizing Cheat Sheet, Understanding Exchange Performance and use some of the many tools available to help you design the solution. The Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator is probably the best one.
- Compliance & Archiving: Exchange, Stubbing, and Database Space Reclamation, Archiving Questions: Do Tiered Storage and Stubbing make sense?, Exchange 2010 Large Mailbox Vision Whitepaper
- Exchange Best Practices Analyzer: one of the bests, should be run regularly.
- Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck): checks Outlook Calendar for potential problems.
- Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator: helps to predict network bandwidth requirements for a specific set of clients.
- Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA): provides a test system for administrators to use to validate external connectivity to Exchange.
- Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT): provides a quick and easy method to analyze Outlook profiles for common configurations that cause problems.
- Microsoft Exchange PST Capture: discover and import PST files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online.
- Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy): generates custom instructions for moving your organization to Exchange 2010 or Office 365.
- MFCMAPI provides access to MAPI stores through a GUI to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a canonical sample for MAPI development.
- Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer: reads Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and/or Exchange topology.
- Z-Hire Employee Provisioning App: Z-Hire automates the IT account creation process for Exchange mailbox, Active Directory, Lync accounts, Office 365 cloud and SalesForce cloud deployments. (AdministrationGuide)
- ReliefJet Essentials for Outlook: It provides free benefit for all Outlook users: Outlook Tweaker. It is available free of charge for everyone and consists of the several handy Outlook enhancements: Repair Hyperlinks, Unstuck Outbox Messages, Advanced Tweaks, Disable or enable warnings, Increase the size of Outlook dialogs, Attachments
- CentralOps (Domain Dossier, Domain Check, Email Dossier, Browser Mirror, Ping, Traceroute, NsLookup, AutoWhois, TcpQuery, AnalyzePath)
- MxToolBox (MxLookup, Blacklists, Analyze Headers, SPF Records, Free Monitoring, DNS Lookup, More)
- Test Exchange Connectivity (Exchange ActiveSync/Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP), Synchronization, Notification, Availability, and Automatic Replies (OOF), Inbound SMTP E-Mail, Outbound SMTP E-Mail + Office 365)
- Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard (This four-step wizard will guide you through the process of creating a new SPF record for your DNS domain)
- Microsoft Knowledge Base monitoring
- TLS check
- IronPort – Cisco SenderBase
- WatchGuard – ReputationAuthority
- Symantec – SSL Certificate Checker
- Symantec – IP Reputation Investigation
- AdFind (Command line Active Directory query tool)
Materials
- Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Poster
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Companion References
- Identity and Authentication in the cloud: Office 2013 and Office 365 (Poster)
- Outlook 2013 Quick Start Guide
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Help
- Free PowerShell books
Scripts
- TechNet – Script resources for IT professionals
- PowerShell Script Repository
- CodePlex (Project Hosting for Open Source Software)
- Exchange 2013 – Cmdlets Road Map
- Get-MailboxDatabaseStatistics.ps1 (more)
- Allow-ActiveSyncDevices.ps1
- CreateADGroupfromCSV.ps1
- Create-HtmlBody.ps1
- EmailFunctions.zip
- Exchange2010 – Get-ExchangeDatabaseInfo (more)
- Get-ActiveSyncUserReport.ps1 (beta)
- Get-DLMembers.ps1
- Get-ExchangeDatabaseInfo.ps1
- Get-OutlookRecipients.ps1
- New-ResourcesExample.ps1
- NoCaseInPrimaryAddress.ps1
- IISLog-Removing&Compressing-v1.ps1
- IPAddressFunctions.ps1
- PowerShell module – EmailFunctions (more)
- Remove-ActiveSyncDevices.ps1
- RemovingFailedJobFiles.ps1
- Set-DistributionGroupOwnersW2K3.ps1 (recursive version)
- Set-mailboxLimitsCSV.ps1
- Video_EmailFunctions_20120807.rar
Visio Stencils
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 Visio Stencil (more)
- Exchange/Lync/Office/Sharepoint 2013 Visio Stencil (more)
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