Month: November 2010

Exporting and Importing Mailboxes or PST Files into Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1

Prior to Exchange 2010 SP1 we used the Export-Mailbox command (Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010) o Dive (Exchange 2003) to export our mailboxes to PST's files. Thanks to Exchange SP1 2010 we'll use 'New-MailboxExportRequest’ and it will therefore not be necessary to have any Outlook on premises. We will perform this procedure on an Exchange server 2010 SP1, We will have to indicate which user or group will be in charge of carrying out these imports or exports, so we will have to add the role of 'Mailbox Import Export'. Otherwise, by default members of the 'Organization Management'’ will have such roles.

Migrating ISA Server 2006 to Microsoft TMG 2010

Those of us who need to upgrade or migrate our previous ISA environments to the new Microsoft product, called Forefront TMG we will need to perform a migration by import/export configuration, since Forefront TMG only works under 64bit systems or Windows 2008 SP2 or R2 and we will not be able to upgrade it from an earlier version of ISA Server, be ISA 2004 or ISA 2006 (since they run on x86). We will also have to manually export the certificates along with their private key to the TMG, since this process simply migrates the configuration.

Configuring Debian+Apache as an OWA Reverse Proxy in DMZ

If we have an Exchange installation and we want to publish OWA abroad, we should never open the ports directly to our Exchange, for this there are proxies located in the DMZ that will present us with our OWA. In this case we are going to set up a Reverse Proxy with DEBIAN and APACHE. To do this, we start from the fact that we have a debian installed in our DMZ with the port 443 of the WAN pointing at it and allowing the port to pass through 443 from our server to the LAN's Exchange CAS.

Setting up Outlook Anywhere in Microsoft Exchange 2010

In this post we will see how to enable in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Outlook Anywhere (formerly called RPC over HTTPS), in order to connect from the outside with our Outlook via HTTPS, an ideal setup for those with mobile devices who use Outlook, we will make a secure connection via SSL to our server or Client Access array, with this we will avoid making VPN connections to open the Outlook. If we do not want to publish our CAS servers directly to the Internet, we will set up a TMG server to make the transfer to us.

Installing and configuring Microsoft Forefront TMG for secure OWA access

In this document, we'll look at one of the most common installations when deploying a Microsoft Exchange Server installation 2010 e ensure your connectivity from the outside through OWA access (or the necessary services) via a TMG host on the DMZ network. We will perform the installation of Microsoft Forefront TMG (Threat Management Gateway) An old ISA Server on a DMZ computer that will only be connected via HTTPS from the Internet, and the server will only connect to the Exchange server with the HUB role (or CAS array).

Using VMware vMA

In this document, we'll look at the VMware virtual appliance called VMware Management Assistance (VMware vMA), is based on a CentOS distribution 5.2 with vCLI, CIM, Java JRE, vSphere SDK for Perl and vSphere SDK for Java, is a script-based management appliance for our virtual environment.. VMware vMA is a great utility to replace the Service Console and be able to manage our ESXi or vCenter hosts more easily and centrally through scripts/tasks, We can configure it as a log server, Backup, ESX distribution via PXE…

Booting HP Firmware Maintenance or HP SmartStart CDs with a USB flash drive

I've been wanting to post this post for a long time, something simple like the previous one but many times we find ourselves (for savings issues) HP servers without CD drive, so before installing the operating system we need to update the firmware of all the components of the server with the HP Firmware Maintenance CD and later with the HP SmartStart CD prepare the boot, install HP utilities and drivers on the machine itself. In the case of not having a server with a CD drive, we can with an HP utility dump them into an external USB drive or a pen drive.