On september 2012 i wrote a article about mdt displaying the task sequence name.
I MDT 2012 Update 1 you had to change LiteTouch.wsf to fix this.
In MDT 2013 this much easier to do:
Edit customsettings.ini
Add _SMSTSPackageName=%TaskSequenceName%
Thats it!!
On December 2010 i wrote an article: automatically move computers to the right OU.
In MDT 2012 update 1 this was an issue: MDT 2012 settings per task sequence
In MDT 2013 this is still a issue:
How to fix:
I changed DeployWiz_SelectTS.vbs file and it work again 
1. Edit DeployWiz_SelectTS.vbs
2. Add after “Dim sTemplate”
Dim sCmd
Set Oshell = createObject(“Wscript.shell”)
3. Add before “End Function” (bottom of page)
sCmd = “wscript.exe “”” & oUtility.ScriptDir & “\ZTIGather.wsf”””
oItem = oSHell.Run(sCmd, , true)
Download DeployWiz_SelectTS2013.7z
Microsoft released Rollup 5 for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
2963805 FIX: Account lockout alerts are not logged after you install Rollup 4 for TMG 2010 SP2
2963811 FIX: The TMG Firewall service (wspsrv.exe) may crash when the DiffServ filter is enabled
2963823 FIX: “1413 Invalid Index” after you enable cookie sharing across array members
2963834 FIX: HTTPS traffic may not be inspected when a user accesses a site
2967726 FIX: New connections are not accepted on a specific web proxy or web listener in Threat Management Gateway 2010
2965004 FIX: EnableSharedCookie option doesn’t work if the Forefront TMG service runs under a specific account
2932469 FIX: An incorrect value is used for IPsec Main Mode key lifetime in Threat Management Gateway 2010
2966284 FIX: A zero value is always returned when an average counter of the “Forefront TMG Web Proxy” object is queried from the .NET Framework
2967763 FIX: The “Const SE_VPS_VALUE = 2” setting does not work for users if the UPN is not associated with a real domain
2973749 FIX: HTTP Connectivity verifiers return unexpected failures in TMG 2010
The Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1 script is used by Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to detect and correct any excess log growth or Microsoft Exchange database (.edb) file growth that, if unchecked, may cause database downtime. By default, System Center Operations Manager 2007 runs the script every 15 minutes. However, you can use Task Scheduler to configure and run this script to monitor database log and file growth.
The Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1 script performs the following actions:
Note:
To avoid critical issues, make sure the value for the HourThreshold parameter is large enough to give you time to react during normal business hours while enough free space is available. If drives are filling up faster than the value specified, immediate action must be taken to protect the disk.
$true against the specified database. You may need to move mailboxes to a new server to rebalance space.
The default settings used in the Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1 script are defined in the StoreTSConstants.ps1 script.
Command: .\Troubleshoot-databasespace.ps1 -server MBX01 -PercentLogFreeSpace 10 -PercentEDBFreeSpace 10 -HourThreshold 5 -Quarantine
Taskscheduler: powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\exshell.psc1” -command “. ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts\Troubleshoot-databasespace.ps1’ –server EX01 -PercentLogFreeSpace 10 -PercentEDBFreeSpace 10 -HourThreshold 1 -Quarantine”
Here I’ll share some free tools that can help simplify Microsoft Exchange deployment, troubleshooting, and administration. Some of the tools are simple—but still convenient—whereas others provide some powerful functionality.
There are some tools you can use during deployment to ease the process and reduce issues in the future, tools you can use for troubleshooting to reduce down-times, and tools you can use during day-to-day administration to monitor server health and perform tasks.
Microsoft’s Exchange Server Deployment Assistant is an online tool that produces a custom step-by-step checklist you can utilize during a server installation or upgrade. It first asks you questions about your current and desired deployment environment, such as the deployment type (on-premise, cloud, or hybrid), migration questions, desired features/functionality, and other miscellaneous caveats that impact the installation or upgrade.
Microsoft’s Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a website with many tools to help test and troubleshoot connectively of Exchange servers, Outlook, Lync, OCS, Office 365, and POP, IMAP, and STMP email. Plus it offers downloadable Connectivity Analyzer Tools for local testing and a message header analyzer.
PFDAVAdmin and ExFolders
These are tools that enable you to perform tasks on Exchange public folders and mailboxes, such as checking or changing permissions. It can also connect to mailboxes, check the contents, and generate reports. PFDAVAdmin is for Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2007 and ExFolders is the updated version for Exchange 2007 and 2010 SP1 and later.
The Jetstress tool simulates disk I/O load on your server, allowing you to specify the amount of simulated Exchange users and profiles. This can help you verify the performance and stability of your server before installing Exchange and putting it into production-use.
These are calculator tools that give sizing recommendations for your particular Exchange server roles for both client access and mailbox. The 2010 version is focused on mailbox calculations while the 2013 version includes recommendations on sizing Client Access servers too.
This Exchange Environment Report tool is from Steve Goodman and is a PowerShell script that generates an automatic overview of your Exchange environment. It supports Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 servers and database availability groups. It reports the number of and details about the servers, mailboxes, roles, and versions. It also gives you useful status on the Database Availability Groups (DAG) and non-DAG databases.
Exchange Reports offers reports on overall information about your Exchange Environment, supporting Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2013. You can keep an eye on configuration changes and status with Group Reports, Single Group Information, Mailbox Report, Single Mailbox Information, Message Tracking, and Environment Report.
The program doesn’t require any installation, but requires .Net 4.0, Powershell 2.0, and Remote Powershell access to the Exchange Server. Reports can be saved in history and also exported to Excel.
Microsoft’s Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Editor (MFCMAPI) tool provides access to MAPI stores, useful when troubleshooting Exchange and Outlook issues, which can serve as a replacement to the old Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store Viewer. You can open and navigate through the message stores that are exposed through MAPI.
The Free Exchange Monitor from SolarWinds supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and 2003. It keeps tabs on the Exchange server stats, services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. In addition to notifying you of outages it can be useful in troubleshooting Exchange server problems and even help with pro-active monitoring, for instance detecting growing mail queues that can indicate bigger issues like transport failures, Internet connection failures, and virus activity.
This is another monitoring application, but from ManageEngine and supports Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013. It gives stats on server health and Exchange services. It also provides details on the client access server, transport, Active Sync counters, and delivery aspects. You can generate real-time performance reports to be downloaded or emailed in PDF format.
Exclaimer Outlook Photos can help you import staff photos into the Active Directory so they’ll show up in the Outlook People Pane, SharePoint profile, and on Microsoft Lync. It can auto-match pictures from a batch to names or other data in Active Directory, and even automatically crop and center the photos as well.
Exchange 2007 enables SSL within IIS by default, but creating and managing SSL certificates via PowerShell commands can be confusing. However, the Certificate Manager for Exchange 2007 from U-BTech eases the process with a GUI.
You can generate an Exchange 2007 Certificate Signing Request and process the Certificate Authority and enable certificates for Exchange 2007 Services (POP, IMAP, SMTP, IIS, UM). Plus you can include additional subject names in a single certificate. It supports import and exporting as well.
Exchange PST Capture from Microsoft will search your network for PST files and then import those files to mailboxes in your organization. It supports both on-premises Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 and Exchange Online. This tool can help, for instance, during the initial deployment of an Exchange Server, to move local Outlook data files into the Exchange Server.
This is a little cool gem I discovered today: a free toolkit made available by Veeam, Starwind and 5nine software. This toolkit enables anyone to get started with virtualization, completely free. And even better, it’s very well known and high-quality stuff, too.
The most affordable toolkit to meet your goals!
There is no better way to start virtualizing than with a FREE Microsoft Hyper-V environment, free backup, free virtual storage and free management software!
With this free toolkit, you can create your own test lab, run a small business or even scale your production environment up to 1,000 VMs. It’s a FREE way to virtualize!
The toolkit consists of the following software:
Now obviously, since it’s a free bundle, the contained software will be free editions with limited functionality. But for in a lab, or when you’re just getting started with virtualization, it might be very cost-effective.
Finally, here’s the evaluation guides for each of the products.
I think this is a good way to show the world what each of the products have in store, especially now with Hyper-V’s ecosystem evolving and maturing and having vendors like Veeam, Starwind and 5nine integrate not only with the hypervisor, but with each other, too!
Thnx to JOEP PISCAER
Microsoft has released “May 2014″ version of Exchange 2013 Help Files for On-premises and Hybrid Deployments. These help files include information up to date until Cumulative Update 5 . These are offline copy of Exchange 2013 TechNet content and very useful when you want to refer something in your lab environment and don’t have internet access.
Link to Download : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35395
Check out these Curah’s for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013:
With the release of SP1 for Exchange 2013 there is a new feature introduced MAPI over HTTP
Doing some testing in my Demolab. I have 2 Exchange 2013 servers with CU5 installed on Server 2012 (No R2)
Set-MapiVirtualDirectory -Identity “<servername>\mapi (Default Web Site)” -InternalUrl https://<fqdn>/mapi -IISAuthenticationMethods Negotiate
Set-OrganizationConfig -MapiHttpEnabled $true
Test-OutlookConnectivity –RunFromServerId <servername> -ProbeIdentity OutlookMapiHttpSelfTestProbe
I get the following error…. 
After Download & Install DotNet 4.5.2 but still not working… Keep your informed!
Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough – Troubleshooter
http://aka.ms/outlookgwt
Troubleshoot ActiveSync with Exchange Server
http://aka.ms/easgwt
Exchange Server 2010 Datacenter Switchover
http://aka.ms/2010DatacenterSwitchovergwt
Troubleshoot Public Folder Replication for Exchange Server 2003
http://aka.ms/2003pfgwt
Mail Flow Guided Walkthrough for Office 365 – Troubleshooter
http://aka.ms/FixEmail
Office 365 Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough – Troubleshooter
http://aka.ms/outlookconnectivity
Setting up a mailbox that multiple users can access and use
http://aka.ms/sharedgwt
Sending email from another person’s mailbox or from a group in Office 365 Guided Walkthrough
http://aka.ms/sendasgwt
Accessing other people’s mailboxes in Office 365 Guided Walkthrough
http://aka.ms/mailboxaccessgwt
Creating and managing resource mailboxes (conference rooms/equipment) in Office 365
http://aka.ms/resourcegwt
Sharing calendar and contacts in Office 365 Guided Walkthrough
http://aka.ms/sharedfoldersgwt
Hybrid Migration Troubleshooter
http://aka.ms/hybridmigrationgwt
Hybrid Environment Free/busy Troubleshooter
http://aka.ms/o365freebusygwt
Set up Lync Online external communications
http://aka.ms/lyncgwt1
Troubleshooting Lync Online sign-in for admins
http://aka.ms/LyncSignIn
Troubleshooting Lync Online sign-in for users
http://aka.ms/lyncsigninusers