Christophe sent me a link to this .. a couple of new tools I have not played with Source: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/100132/two-exchange-server-tools-you-should-know-about.html One of the great things about working with Exchange Server is the wealth of available support tools. For virtually every area of administration or management, you can find tools—some commercial, and some free; some from
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Comments Off Interesting topic on Technet Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671175(EXCHG.80).aspx This topic provides guidance about the most useful performance counters to monitor that are common among all Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server roles. When monitoring Exchange 2007 servers, you should know which performance aspects are most important. The common counters and threshold values detailed in this topic can be used to proactively identify potential issues
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Comments Off Interesting but Oooops! .. I like the note at the end “Microsoft will not be providing any hotfixes, engine updates, or program fixes to automatically correct this issue.” Source: http://blogs.technet.com/fss/archive/2008/08/28/microsoft-av-scan-engine-updating-issue.aspx Microsoft is aware of an issue with the Microsoft AV engine not updating on some installations of Antigen and Forefront Server Security products. Not all
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Comments Off I saw this up on Henrik’s blog .. yeah you might say W H A T E V E R, but actually have a scout around the PostPath website is quite interesting. The Cisco site says has the usual stuff “The acquisition of PostPath complements our strategy to develop an integrated collaboration platform designed for
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Comments Off How cool is this $srv=hostname;([ADSI]“WinNT://$srv/Administrators,group”).Add(“WinNT:///”)
Comments Off Has a problem today where I couldn’t RDP to an Exchange 2007 server … so knocked this up Get-ExchangeServer | foreach-Object {write-host $_.name; quser /server:$_}
Comments Off I am sure you all know there is a new Storage Calculator out in the wild not, ver 15.6 I have downloaded and read the article and found a need to pass this script on to you all. Basically about half way down is a link to Collectlogs VBS script Come on! a VBS ..
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Comments Off Saw this up on modaco and wanted to share it, as it’s excellent! Check out the source: http://technivator.blogspot.com/2008/08/props-to-props.html Made me smile
Comments Off So been automating some global configuration in Exchange 2007 today and wanted to share this. I need to enable web distribution of the oab and couldn’t find the Powershell “check box”. But cracked it. You need to just populate the VirtualDirectories entry and it “checks” the Enable Web-bases distribution. The cheat was this: $xOABs =
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Comments Off Interesting Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/19/449621.aspx Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running Hyper-V or hypervisors validated under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). Microsoft
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