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Ask the Perf Guy: How big is too BIG?
We’ve seen an increasing amount of interest lately in deployment of Exchange 2013 on “large” servers. By large, I mean servers that contain significantly more CPU or memory resources than what the...
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Booking Delegation Vs. Classic Delegation
Calendar delegation can be assigned in two different ways, each for a specific scenario. However, any mailbox, usually rooms, can be assigned both and this causes confusion when managing delegation of...
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Deep Sixing PST Files
A little over two years ago we wrote about removing PSTs from your organization and gave you a tool to assist you with that endeavor. .PST, Time to Walk the Plank. Since then, we’ve updated the tool...
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Hybrid deployment best practices
Many Office 365 customers are using our hybrid deployment option since it offers the most flexible migration process, the best coexistence story, and the most seamless onboarding user experience....
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Ask The Perf Guy: What’s The Story With Hyperthreading and Virtualization?
There’s been a fair amount of confusion amongst customers and partners lately about the right way to think about hyperthreading when virtualizing Exchange. Hopefully I can clear up that confusion very...
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Namespace Planning in Exchange 2016
If you are like the vast majority of our customers, you already have some version(s) of Exchange deployed in your environment. Depending on the version, you may have different namespace requirements...
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Load Balancing in Exchange 2016
Like Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 does not require session affinity at the load balancing layer.To understand this statement better, and see how this impacts your designs, we need to look at how...
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The Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture
The Preferred Architecture (PA) is the Exchange Engineering Team’s best practice recommendation for what we believe is the optimum deployment architecture for Exchange 2016, and one that is very...
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Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator Update
v7.8 of the calculator introduces support for Exchange 2016! Yes, that’s right, you don’t need a separate calculator, v7.8 and later supports Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016 deployments. Moving forward,...
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Ask the Perf Guy: Sizing Exchange 2016 Deployments
Uh oh. You are probably thinking to yourself, here comes another one of those incredibly long blog posts about sizing. Thankfully, it’s not. If you want to fully understand the sizing process for...
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Enabling BitLocker on Exchange Servers
The Exchange Preferred Architecture, for both Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016, recommends enabling BitLocker on fixed data drives that store Exchange database files. Over the years, there...
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Exchange 2016 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication
With the release of Exchange Server 2016, I thought it would be best to document our guidance around utilizing Kerberos authentication for MAPI clients. Like with the last two releases, the solution...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Exchange...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various client connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Exchange...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a deployment...
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Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2016 Coexistence Environment with Mixed...
Our goal with this article is to articulate the various connectivity scenarios you may encounter in your Exchange 2016 designs. To that end, this article will begin with a walk through of a deployment...
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Modern Attachments for Exchange 2016 Hybrid Customers
There is a new option that has been made available for our Office 365 customers that allows you to take advantage of integrating the OneDrive for Business attachment experience directly from your OWA...
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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant Updated with New Exchange 2016 Scenarios
We’re happy to announce the latest addition to the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant! You can now use the Deployment Assistant to help you configure an Exchange 2016-based hybrid deployment in...
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Remote PowerShell Proxying Behavior in Exchange 2013 CU12 and Exchange 2016
In Exchange 2013 CU11, we introduced a change to the way Remote PowerShell (RPS) functioned.Prior to CU11, Exchange 2013 routed Remote PowerShell requests by finding a random mailbox that is either...
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Lagged Database Copy Enhancements in Exchange Server 2016 CU1
The high availability capabilities of the lagged database copy are enhanced in the upcoming release of Exchange 2016 Cumulative Update 1. ReplayLagManagerAs you may recall, lagged copies can care for...
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Important notice for Office 365 email customers who have configured connectors
If you’re an Exchange Online or Exchange Online Protection (EOP) subscriber and you have configured connectors, this post contains important information that might impact your organization. To make...
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