Category Archives: Exchange

Microsoft – Official PST to Exchange Import Tool

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Microsoft has just announced they have released a tool that allow admins to automatically crawl users computers and import PST files into Exchange Online or Exchange 2010.

Download http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28767

Thanks to the following blog for the info:
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2012/01/out-now-official-pst-to-exchange-import-tool/

 

Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere

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Short article showing the impact of adding memory to the virtual machine running Exchange 2010 on top of vSphere.  As you will see there is quite an impact adding memory can have on the amount of disk I/O generated.  With the I/O numbers generated you certainly don’t need expensive EMC disk either!

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2010/05/exchange-2010-disk-io-on-vsphere.html

The next link is to the first part of the series where they tested the impact of adding virtual cpu’s to the Exchange 2010 server(s).

http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2010/05/exchange-2010-scaleup-performance-on-vsphere.html

What is interesting in both cases is the amount of cpu and disk for 8000 users in both of these test is EASILY within the capabilities of VMware vSphere….so virtualize already!

New version of Exchange Server Profile Analyzer

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Use the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool to collect estimated statistical information from a single mailbox store or across an Exchange Server organization. The collected data can be used for such tasks as analyzing the performance and health of a server that has mailboxes, improving capacity planning models, and improving testing methodologies and tools.

32 bit – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8F575F60-BD80-44AA-858B-A1F721108FAD&displaylang=en

64 bit – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C009C049-9F4C-4519-A389-69C281B2ABDA&displaylang=en