The Exchange team has updated the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role requirements calculator. It’s now in the ver. 3.2. Read Ross Smith’s latest post about the new version here. Download the calculator here.
The Exchange team has released the ExLogAnalyzer, it’s an enhancement of a bunch of VB scripts released earlier for creating reports based on the message tracking logs. It looks like a cool tool, which can come handy in a lot of scenarios. The main shift in this model, compared to the previous script, is that ExLogAnalyzer is built as a framework that can be used to analyze Exchange as well as possibly any other log …
The Form Based Authentication page for OWA, can be modified on the ISA 2006 (or TMG) server. Fellow Exchange 2007 MCM Kay Sellenrode has made a cool tool to modify the FBA page. I have created a tool that a lot of ISA/TMG users will like. It is a Simple tool to edit the Forms Based Authentication page and make it different than what’s default. Read more at Key’s blog and get the tool here.
HP has released their sizing tool for Exchange 2010. This successor to the Exchange 2007 Sizing tool does recommendations for deployment and sizing of servers and storage and includes a (HP) bill of materials. The tool supports multi-site deployments, Database Availability Groups (DAG), DAS or or SAN-based storage and high availability and client options. As with the 2007 version it uses a combination of technical and business requirements and projects best practices for high available …
The Exchange Team has made a blog post about ISA 2006 SP1 configuration with Exchange 2010. While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010. Read it here.