New Office Visio Stencil – Janeiro 2015

A versão de Janeiro de 2015 do New Office Visio Stencil foi recentemente disponibilizada para download.

Brief Description
These stencils contain more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. The zip file now includes both stencil sets from 2012 and 2014.

Overview
Creating visual representations of your Microsoft Office and Office 365 architectures, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync is a helpful way to communicate your deployment. These Visio stencils provide more than 300 icons -- many depicting servers, server roles, services and applications -- that you can use in architecture diagrams, charts, and posters. These icons are primarily centered around deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 as well as hybrid Office 365 deployments of aforementioned technologies.
The zip file now includes both stencil sets from 2012 and 2014.

Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool v15.0.995.29

A versão15.0.995.29 (Outubro 2014) da Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool está disponível para download.

Brief Description
Simulate Exchange disk I/O load on a server to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

Overview
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services

Está disponível uma nova (e muito mais poderosa) ferramenta para ajudar no processo de sincronização entre a Active Directory local e a nuvem: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services.

Overview
Azure AD Sync allows you to onboard to Azure Active Directory and Office 365 with a single forest or multi forest on-prem Active Directory.

Microsoft Exchange 2013 Public Folders Directory Sync Support Scripts

A Microsoft actualizou os Microsoft Exchange 2013 Public Folders Directory Sync Support Scripts para a versão 15.00.1017.003.

Brief Description
Scripts to enable creation of public folder related objects in the O365 Active Directory and synchronization of public folder related Active Directory objects between on-premise and O365 directories.

Overview
Use this scripts if you need to do one of the following - - Initial creation of mail enabled public folder objects in the destination Active Directory for public folder migration from Exchange 2007 or 2010 to Exchange 2013 - Synchronization of mail enabled public folder objects from cloud to on-premise Active Directory - Synchronization of mail enabled public folder objects from on-premise to cloud Active Directory - Synchronization of public folder mailbox objects from cloud to on-premise Active Directory

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v6.1

Ross Smith IV anunciou no Microsoft Exchange Team Blog que a ferramenta Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator foi actualizada, agora para a versão 6.1.

De acordo com a página de release notes, estas são as principais novidades:

Version 6.1

• Fixed operator mistake in calcNumActiveDBsSF formula
• Fixed missed validation scenario where the calculator could recommend a copy count that could not be deployed on the custom disk architecture
• Optimized remaining servers formula
• Fixed an issue where single datacenter, multiple databases per volume architecture with lagged copies didn't calculate the correct number of
  copies/volume
• Fixed VirtCPUFactor reference
• Various comment changes
• Improved cell highlights for insufficient disk capacity on storage design tab
• Added additional storage capacities – 1.2TB, 6TB and 8TB
• Fixed database count validation logic to take into consideration dedicated lagged copy servers

Para obter instruções detalhadas sobre a utilização da ferramenta, consultem o documento Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator Readme.

Para fazer download da ferramenta, cliquem aqui.

Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor 2.0

O Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor 2.0 foi recentemente disponibilizado para download.

Overview
The Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX) is a command-line tool that can parse network captures and interpret remote procedure calls made from a client to Microsoft Exchange Server. RPX uses the information provided in the Microsoft Exchange Server protocol documentation to parse RPCs, remote operations (ROPs), and the parameters for each ROP.

Exchange Load Generator 2013 v15.0.805.0

A ferramenta Exchange Load Generator 2013 v15.0.805.0 está disponível para download.

Brief Description
Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, ActiveSync, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange servers.

Overview
Use Microsoft Exchange Load Generator 2013 (LoadGen) as a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, ActiveSync, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange 2013 servers. LoadGen allows you to test how a server running Exchange 2013 responds to e-mail loads. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadGen tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load. LoadGen is a useful tool for administrators who are sizing servers and validating a deployment plan. Specifically, LoadGen helps you determine if each of your servers can handle the load to which they are intended to carry. Another use for LoadGen is to help validate the overall solution.
This version is intended for Microsoft Exchange 2013 Servers only.
Important! LoadGen should be used only in laboratories that have no connection to the production environment. This tool should not be used in any way in a production environment or an environment that is mission critical or contains important information of any kind anywhere in the network.
The tool is provided as-is. At this time, there are no updates or patches planned for future release. No formal support is provided for the tool. Some minimal support may be provided by Microsoft but not all reported issues will be able to be addressed or resolved.

Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook v2.2

A Microsoft actualizou recentemente a ferramenta Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook para a versão 2.2.

Brief Description
The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a program that checks the Microsoft Outlook Calendar and items for problems or for potential problems.

Overview
The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook is a command-line program that checks Outlook Calendars for problems. To use this tool, the Outlook calendar must reside on a Microsoft Exchange Server. The tool does not work with IMAP, with POP3, or with other non-Exchange mail servers.
The tool opens an Outlook profile, opens the Outlook Calendar, and then checks several things such as permissions, free/busy publishing, and auto booking. Then, the tool checks each item in the calendar folder for problems that can cause items to seem to be missing or that might otherwise cause problems in the Calendar.

Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool v15.0.775.8

A ferramenta Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 foi recentemente actualizada para a versão 15.0.775.8.

Brief Description
Simulate Exchange disk I/O load on a server to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

Overview
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.1

A tão aguardada ferramenta Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.1 foi finalmente disponibilizada para download. Tal como era hábito com a sua predecessora, a Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator, foi anunciada por Ross Smith IV no Microsoft Exchange Team Blog.

Há várias novidades nesta nova versão. Tal como devem ter reparado pelo nome, a ferramenta deixou de ser exclusiva para o role de mailbox e inclui agora também client access servers e dimensionamento da componente de transporte (uma vez que esta é agora parte integrante do mailbox role).

Para mais detalhes e instruções de utilização da ferramenta, não deixem de ler Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator Readme.

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0

Foi recentemente disponibilizado para download a ferramenta Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0.

Overview
PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online. PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange. By optionally installing PST Capture Agents on target machines, administrators can determine where .pst files are located and who their file owner is via the PST Capture Console. Administrators can import .pst files via Import Lists to Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Data can be directly imported into the primary mailbox or associated archive mailbox.

System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Vista

• Review the Technical Documentation prior to installation of Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0
• Exchange Server 2010 or Exchange Server 2013, if used to import to Exchange Server 2010 or Exhange 2013 mailboxes or In-Place Archives
• Exchange Online (Office 365) subscription if used to import to Exchange Online (Office 365) mailboxes or In-Place Archives
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or later
• PowerShell 3.0 or later
• Microsoft Outlook 2010 x64 (only required on the host computer where you install the Central Service and Console)

Exchange 2013 Site Mailbox Directory Sync Support Scripts

Na sequência do post da semana passada a propósito dos Exchange 2007/2010 Public Folders Migration to O365 Scripts, a Microsoft disponibilizou recentemente mais um conjunto de scripts bastante úteis: Microsoft Exchange 2013 Site Mailbox Directory Sync Support Scripts.

Brief Description
Site Mailbox Directory Sync Support Scripts enable synchronizing site mailbox objects from Office 365 cloud into on-premise Active Directory to support access for on-premise users.

Overview
Site Mailbox Directory Sync Support Scripts are used to support on-premise users accessing Office 365 site mailboxes. It pulls any changes to the site mailbox objects including property changes, permissions etc. from Office 365 and merges them into the on-premise Active Directory.

Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0

A ferramenta Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) 1.0 foi recentemente disponibilizada para download.

O OffCAT 1.0 suporta análise de configuração aos seguintes programas do Microsoft Office (2003, 2007, 2010 e 2013):

• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word

Brief Description
The Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0 (OffCAT ) provides a quick and easy method to analyze several Microsoft Office programs for common configurations that may cause problems. This can be very useful for busy Help Desk personnel when end-users call for help with Office programs or when you want to proactively identify possible issues.

Overview
The Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) is a program that provides a detailed report of your installed Office programs. This report includes many parameters about your Office program configuration and highlights known problems found when OffCAT scans your computer. For any problems that are listed in the report, you are provided with a link to a public-facing article (usually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article) on the issue so you can read about possible fixes for the problem. If you are a Help Desk professional, you can also save the report to file so that the report can be viewed in the Office Configuration Analyzer Tool on another client where the tool is installed. The Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.0 also includes a command-line version that can be used to collect an OffCAT scan without user intervention.

Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool

A ferramenta Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2013 Tool (v15.0.651.0) já está disponível para download.

Brief Description
Simulate Exchange disk I/O load on a server to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

Overview
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0

Foi recentemente disponibilizado para download a ferramenta Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0 (version 15.00.0641.000). De acordo com um post da equipa de Exchange da Microsoft, Time to go PST hunting with the new PST Capture 2.0, aqui fica uma lista das novidades:

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
• Updated profile generation code to use Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP).
• Fixed Exchange Online import failure issue when PST Capture is not installed on an Exchange server.
• Removed User Interface limit of 1,000 users when performing an import to Exchange Online.
• General performance improvements

Brief Description
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online

Overview
PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online. PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange. By optionally installing PST Capture Agents on target machines, administrators can determine where .pst files are located and who their file owner is via the PST Capture Console. Administrators can import .pst files via Import Lists to Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Data can be directly imported into the primary mailbox or associated archive mailbox.

Novo Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Há alguns dias atrás, a Microsoft anunciou o novo Remote Connectivity Analyzer. É agora possível testar o Lync e o Exchange Server a partir da mesma página.

We are excited to announce the new Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer. This tool is the result of a combined effort by the teams that created the Lync Remote Connectivity Analyzer and the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer.

We’ve eliminated OCS and Lync from the name and have a new way to access the website: http://testconnectivity.microsoft.com. The new tool has all the same great tests for Lync and Exchange available on one website. The previous website redirects to this new site.

Author: Premal Gandhi, Microsoft Senior Supportability PM – LyncTM
Editor: Susan S. Bradley
Publication date: January 15, 2013
Product version: Lync Server 2010, Exchange Server 2010

Office Visio Stencil for Exchange 2013

O Office Visio Stencil for Exchange 2013, versão de Janeiro de 2013, já está disponível para download.

Brief Description
This stencil contains Exchange 2013 specific icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Exchange 2013 deployments, including on-premises, hybrid, and Office 365.

Overview
Creating visual representations of your on-premises, hybrid and Office 365 architectures, including Microsoft Exchange icons is helpful way to communicate your deployment. This Visio stencil provides icons -- many depicting servers, server roles, services, and applications -- that you can use in architecture diagrams, charts, and posters. These icons are primarily centered around on-premise deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, as well as hybrid Office 365 deployments of Exchange 2013.

Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook v2.0

A Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook v2.0 foi recentemente disponibilizada para download.

Brief Description
The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a program that checks the Microsoft Outlook Calendar and items for problems or for potential problems.

Overview
The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook is a command-line program that checks Outlook Calendars for problems. To use this tool, the Outlook calendar must reside on a Microsoft Exchange Server. The tool does not work with IMAP, with POP3, or with other non-Exchange mail servers.
The tool opens an Outlook profile, opens the Outlook Calendar, and then checks several things such as permissions, free/busy publishing, and auto booking. Then, the tool checks each item in the calendar folder for problems that can cause items to seem to be missing or that might otherwise cause problems in the Calendar.

Instructions for how to use this tool:
After you install this download, open a Command Prompt window in the directory that contains the CalCheck.exe file. To obtain detailed instructions, type the calcheck /? command in the Command Prompt window, and then press Enter.
Here is a list of command-line switches for CalCheck.exe:

CalCheck [-P <Profile name>] [-L <path\file>] [-M <LegacyExchangeDN>] [-N <DisplayName>] [-O <path>] [-C <Version>] [-A] [-F] [-R] [-V]
CalCheck –?

-P Profile name (If absent, will prompt for profile)
-L <List File> (file including Name and LegDN) of mailbox(es) to check
-M Mailbox DN Used with -N (if specified, only process the mailbox specified.)
-N <DisplayName> Used with -M (if specified, only process the mailbox specified)
-O <Output Path> (path to place output files - default is the current directory)
-C <Version> Click To Run scenario with Office 2013 - load a specific MAPI version
-A All calendar items output to CALCHECK.CSV
-F Create CalCheck Folder and move flagged error items there
-R Put a Report message in the Inbox with the CalCheck.log file
-V Verbose output to the command window
-? Print this message

Links Relacionados:

• CalCheck - The Outlook Calendar Checking Tool

Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0

Foi recentemente disponibilizado para download a ferramenta Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0.

Brief Description
The Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 (OCAT ) provides a quick and easy method to analyze your Microsoft Office Outlook profile and mailbox for common configurations that may cause problems in Outlook. This can be very useful for busy Help Desk personnel when end-users call for help with Outlook or when you want to identify possible issues with Outlook proactively.

Overview
The Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 provides a detailed report of your current Outlook profile and mailbox. This report includes many parameters about your profile, and it highlights any known problems that are found in your profile or mailbox. For any problems that are listed in the report, you are provided a link to a Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article that describes a possible fix for the problem. If you are a Help Desk professional, you can also export the report to a file. Then, the report can be viewed in the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool on another client computer where the tool is installed. The Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.0 also includes a command-line version that can be used to collect an OCAT scan without user intervention.

System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

This download works with the following Microsoft Office programs:

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (Offline Scans only)
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Outlook 2010 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Outlook 2013 (32-bit or 64-bit)

The following minimum version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is required:

• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0

The .NET Programmability Support feature included with Office must also be installed.

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator v19.9

Ross Smith IV anunciou no Microsoft Exchange Team Blog que a ferramenta Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator foi actualizada, agora para a versão 19.9.

De acordo com a página de registo de actualizações, estas são as principais novidades:

Version 19.9 Updates

Enhancements

• Revised name of Offline Address Book in MailboxDatabases.csv file
• Integrated revised CreateMBDatabases.ps1 script that better handles database creation with large numbers of databases
• Integrated revised CreateMBDatabaseCopies.ps1 script that performs faster
• Added validation check to ensure message profile has a mailbox size limit
• Added 4TB disks as a disk selection option
• Included prompt for 2nd site GC for on DB Export Primary DB List dialog
• Included prompt for 1st and 2nd site GC on Export Copy DB List dialog
• Revised default for GC on Export Primary DB List dialog to use FQDN
• Revised default for Public Folder DB on Export Primary DB List dialog to clarify it is a DB name
• Added problem explanation text to Distribution tab status line to show why the Calculator considers a configuration invalid
• Updated CreateMBDatabaseCopies.ps1 to use GC1 and GC2 from export file
• Added status information to Diskpart.ps1 to show the state of disks before and after script execution

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with "Number of Active Databases / PDC (After Second PDC Server Failure)" formula to ensure that the PDC cannot have more active databases than possible
• Removed rounding on calculating number of active databases / server
• Fixed "DB and Log LUN Design / Server" to accurately calculate /DAG totals when 2 LUNs / Backup Set architecture is chosen
• Fixed conditional formatting issue with Number of Mailbox Servers when the design utilizes standalone Mailbox servers
• Fixed bug preventing running multiple StorageCalc instances from running concurrently
• Fixed bug when saving a workbook under a new name after making changes to the original workbook
• Fixed "Number of Mailbox Cores Required to Support Activated Databases in Secondary Datacenter" to accurately take into account the correct number of remaining servers
• Fixed diskpart.ps1 script to ensure it can be re-executed
• Fixed diskpart.ps1 script to cater for embedded spaces in mountpoints
• Fixed CreateMBDatabaseCopies.ps1 to read input for Primary site and Secondary site DC's
• Fixed Export Primary Databases List to use PF Database instead of PF Server

Para obter instruções detalhadas sobre a utilização da ferramenta, consultem Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator.

Para fazer download da ferramenta, cliquem aqui.