22 Closed Magic Tickets
Exchange
38 Migrations to Exchange 2007
Windows
VUGroupspace
Identified issue with quota software being utilized to manage VUGroupspace. One of the shares is being reported as uitlizing much more space then is actually in use, as reported by Windows. The issue appears to be a bug in the Quota software. Change is in place to update the software to the latest rev.
Exchange
Archiving
Assisted in the process of choosing an archiving solution for the Exchange 2007 Environment. This has included attending various vendor presentations, providing system configuration information and challenging\questioning vendor configurations and abilities.
Cross Training
Assist in cross training new messaging employees with current configuration, setup and procedures for the VU Exchange Environment.
Exchange 2007
OWA Vanderbilt Rebranding work
Installed new test\production CAS for internal testing in the production environment before implementation. This CAS will also be utilized for testing OWA integration.
Finished the OWA Rebranding and put it into production. Continuing the documentation of the .css files on my time for easier modification in the future if the need arises. Modified the test CAS setup to allow for multiple images at the top of the OWA login page to accomodate MC and VU logo’s for the combined environment.
OWA timeout issue
Worked with Peter in identifying the issue that was causing our 2007 OWA timeout issues. Tested solution on the test/production CAS successfully. Peter is putting in a change for implementing ths change on the production OWA Load balanced ip.
OWA integration effort
Worked on identifying issue that is preventing OWA 2007 from connection to VUExchange 2003 mailboxes. Still have not identified the complete root cause, it appears as if it is because the default internal delivery address for the VUExchange users is different from the default proxy address for the Exchange Enterprise. It is still being researched as to why this is happening
OWA 2007 Change Password
Identified the method for disabling the change password option for OWA 2007. This is important so as to not cause confustion issues with end users since this functionality will not work since AD is not authoritative for passwords and current ad permissions do not allow for changing the password in this fashion.
UM
Identified issue with loader process overwriting UM and OCS proxy address information in AD.
PowerShell Scripting
Mailbox Migration
Scripted to help automate the process for larger scale migrations. The tool automatically picks the storage group with the least number of mailboxes currently on it and creates a mailbox move script for moving each user that is listed in the users.txt file that is populated with the users to be migrated from 2003 to 2007. The next portion of the script that I am working on is automating the start of each of the created user move scripts. The tool will run up to 10 migrations at a time and then prompt for the script to be run again. It keeps a list of all the users that were moved and the dates. Passed off portions of the script to Denny for possible use in the new Exchange 2007 loader script.
UM and OCS metrics
Scripted solution to pull a count of OCS users, Voice Users, Federation enabled users, Internet enabled users and UM users and mail out the information to interested individuals. Continuing work on automating this and writing the data out with date information to a database for ongoing automated metrics.