About Michel de Rooij

Michel de Rooij, with over 25 years of mixed consulting and automation experience with Exchange and related technologies, is a consultant for Rapid Circle. He assists organizations in their journey to and using Microsoft 365, primarily focusing on Exchange and associated technologies and automating processes using PowerShell or Graph. Michel's authorship of several Exchange books and role in the Office 365 for IT Pros author team are a testament to his knowledge. Besides writing for Practical365.com, he maintains a blog on eightwone.com with supporting scripts on GitHub. Michel has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

Windows Phone 7 to support multiple Exchange accounts

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

I seem to have missed the news from a few days back that during a broadcast on the @ch9live development network , Joe Belfiore, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Windows Mobile, confirmed multiple Exchange account support in Windows Phone 7 Series. Goodbye to unsupported hacks or POP/IMAP’ing those additional Exchange boxes. I assume includes all the additional benefits like Direct Push (hello battery life!).

In addition, Belfiore stated that on Windows Phone 7 various calendars will be displayed in a single view using coler coding to differentiate between the calendars (i.e. accounts).

Thanks to fellow Exchange guy Magnus Björk for spotting this one.

Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

A few days ago, Microsoft released an installable Remote Desktop Connection Manager, or RDCMan for short. RDCMan (v2.2) looks like the MMC version of Remote Desktops, but contains additional functionality like grouping and export/import. Great for people working in lab or demo environments where you have to switch back and forth – and manage – a lot of remote sessions.

You can download Remote Desktop Connection Manager here.

W2008 R2 Hyper-V architecture poster

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

Since most of us working with Exchange have – directly or indirectly – to do with virtualization technologies, we would like to inform you Microsoft published a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V architecture poster, much like they did for Exchange 2007 (no sign of Exchange 2010 versions yet).

This poster – in PDF format – is a nice reference for key Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V technologies. It focuses on subjects like networking, storage, live migration, snapshotting and management.

You can download the PDF here.

Public Folder DAV-Admin Tool updated

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

The PFDAVAdmin tool has been updated to version 6.05.8170. As you probably know, PFDAVAdmin can be used to perform management tasks related to Exchange’s public folders and mailboxes and is supported on Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007.

You can download it from here.

Forefront Protection 2010 Capacity Planning Tool

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

The folks at Microsoft released version 1.0 of the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server capacity planning tool. This tool is to aid you in planning and sizing your FPE configuration.

The tool starts with the question if you want to evaluate your current setup or are planning for a new environment. After that you need to select the required architecture, Standard for small to medium sized organizations or Enterprise for large organizations (e.g. combined Exchange Server roles). You can define the required level of protection (i.e. number of engines on Edge, Hub Transport and Mailbox Server roles) and see the predicted effect on the hardware requirements. After completing the questionnaire you receive the recommended hardware configuration.

You can also see the predicted performance for different setups, i.e. virtual or non-virtual setup, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as Exchange level (2007 or 2010).

You can download the FPE capacity planning tool here.