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#Exchange2010 Humm, interesting .. it would appear that Support for Exchange 2010 is scheduled to be introduced with BES 5.0.1 MR1 RIM have a few issues with Exchange 2010 and BES 5 SP1 so MR1 is targeted for around the 7th December 2009. Microsoft will then probably release Update 1 for Exchange 2010 around the same time.

Interesting .. http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/12039/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange-Release_Notes--934496-1104102201-001-5.0.1-US.pdf Hightlight for me is: Support for Microsoft Exchange Web Services.  You can configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to use Microsoft Exchange Web Services instead of ...

#Exchange2010 .. Planning on deploying Exchange 2010? .. You have got to check this out: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/5/0/75068B44-0A70-4BBF-9824-01ECF076F7AE/TheTotalEconomicImpact_pdf_11042009.pdf Some highlights are: “Lorimer” is Forresters made up company the ROI for our composite company, computed from hard benefits, is ...

#Exchange2010 .. just found it on Technet .. and MSDN .. Yeah baby it’s in the wild Exchange Server 2010 (x64) - DVD (Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish) Date Posted (UTC): 11/9/2009 6:41:51 AM

so a special pre-TechEd event with two members of the products groups from Redmond enroute to present in Berlin. Astrid McClean is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Exchange group Astrid went through a presentation on the management, new administration capabilities and self service features of Exchange Server 2010 RBAC ...

Cool at last, will probably be the first SP2 Rollup? .. you see “we” do have a voice and Microsoft do listen ! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/04/453026.aspx … Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we have reconsidered.  In the coming calendar ...

#Exchange Missed this .. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS154453+03-Nov-2009+PRN20091103 Trend Micro Announces the Latest ScanMail(TM) for Microsoft Exchange Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:00am EST ScanMail 10, providing the immediate protection of the Trend Micro(TM) Smart Protection Network(TM) with half the administration and twice the ...

Damm November already, where has this year gone? #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from October 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in October 2009 Quick Start Guide for Outlook Voice Access 2010 Outlook ...

Roll up roll up register why you can … in the UK it’s 1800-1900 :-| http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032428203&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Wednesday, November 04, 2009: Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced ...

Check it out, all you need is your name and email address. http://www.red-gate.com/specials/Exchange/esa_exchange2010.htm?utm_source=simpletalkarticle&utm_medium=weblink&utm_content=2010ebookoct09 It’s a 195 PDF doc with five chapters: Chapter 1 is an overall chapter, what’s new in Exchange Server 2010 and what has deprecated with ...

Interesting .. maybe someone will write a PST interface for Outlook Web Access :-o http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx Data portability has become an increasing need for our customers and partners as more information is stored and shared in digital formats. One ...

As you should know by now Exchange 2010 removes certain programming hinterfaces that breaks the likes of BES and Enterprise Vault.  Found this: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/software/server_compatibility.jsp#tab_tab_news October 20, 2009 - Research In Motion (RIM) is pleased to notify you that we are working in close collaboration ...

I know, I know its late, but hey did u c the announcement last night .. "Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability" .. yeah baby! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for ...

Wanted to share this with you .. get the Service Health or all you Exchange 2010 Servers Get-ExchangeServer | where {$_.AdminDisplayVersion.Major -eq 14 –AND $_.IsProvisionedServer -eq $False} | ForEach{$s = $_.Name; "`n$s"; Test-Servicehealth $s | Select Role, RequiredServicesRunning | FT -auto}

Only 114 days until Christmas ;-).  So August the release of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 and Exchange 2010 Release Candidate #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for August 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available ...

Wow not many spare chairs, so this was an Exchange 2010 HA session with Ewan Tsang-MacKellar. Session started with the HA options Exchange 2007 gave us.  Then Ewan introduced us to Exchange 2010 DAG’s (Database Availability Groups). DAG Config information is stored in the AD and the Windows Failover cluster (yeah it’s still ...

Thanks to Ash for pointing me at this: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_perf_exchange-storage-protocols.pdf Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a storage intensive workload used by a large number of IT organizations to provide email for their users. In this paper, a large installation of 16,000 Exchange users was configured across eight ...

Okay been trawling the web and found these: Active Directory Schema Changes (SP2) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221142.aspx What's New in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221150.aspx Exchange Management Shell (SP1 and SP2) ...

Okay the link on the download site doesn’t work, but it should go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221150.aspx Deploying Exchange Server 2010: You can deploy Exchange Server 2010 in your organization … Exchange Backup Functionality: Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 includes a VSS plug-in for Windows Server Backup to support ...

Shame the What’s New link doesn't work! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake ...

Ohhh Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37&displayLang=en Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates ...

At last … Update: The have fixed the link! so you can actually download it now.  Interesting the build number is 14.00.0639.011 Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RC helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your ...

Damm, Silly season already #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for July 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in July 2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta and Outlook Standards Documentation The ...

Check these out: Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=249671 This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also describes the enhancements made over Exchange Server 2007. The clinics ...

This should be a good one! The August 2009 MMMUG Meeting will be on Tuesday the 25th of August in the usual location, the Microsoft offices at Cardinal Place, near London Victoria. This month we have Ewan Tsang-MacKellar from Microsoft who will be diving into all the High Availability options in Exchange 2010. The meeting starts at 18:35 and ...

So I didn’t "really" notice this, but then Patrick mention it and I thought wot? Basically when you try and dcpromo the first Windows 2008 server in a Windows 2003 forestyou get this: so you need to run Z:\sources\adprep>adprep.exe /forestprep but from an existing DC or you get this: Z:\sources\adprep>adprep.exe /forestprep ...

It’s been a while, but I have updated Get-MsxServerPLUS.ps1 aka Get-ExchangeServerPLUS.ps1.  I changed the name as it was annoying me as it was conflicting with get-exchangeserver.  Other updates are: v1.20 10 November 2008    : Changed the script name so it is different from the standard exchange commands. Added Event ...

A whole bunch of demo videos came out on TechNet Edge yesterday Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Nickname Cache Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos Nickname Cache in Exchange 2010. By storing the e-mail addresses of recent recipients, the Nickname Cache helps users address e-mail more quickly by providing a suggested name list as ...

Blimey this is good! Source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/04/08/400.aspx Administrators, users and troubleshooters value the possibility in Outlook 2007 to get status about the connections: by holding the ctrl key while right clicking the Outlook icon in the notification area and choosing “Connection Status” (see also ...

What a scorcher in June was in the UK, and it all down hill now until the end of 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for June 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in June 2009 Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI ...

Funky baby, check out this stuff, training for Exchange 2007 and 2010! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/exchange-server.aspx …  Take advantage of new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 training resources and become an expert on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Exchange Server 2010 is the first server in a new generation of ...

How hard do you think this would be?  well damm hard in fact.  So here is the deal.  I have a Mac Pro running Windows 2008 and VMWare Server.  I had an issue with my graphics card, so I moved my VMWare stuff to Tosh Laptop. So my graphics card is now okay and I removed VMWare and installed Hyper-V.  My plan was to migrate ...

June already and the weather is sweet in the UK.  So lets get on with this … bit of a delay in posting as kbalertz was down :-( #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for May 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available ...

This is really good .. one to keep in the back of your mind! Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/27/451488.aspx In summary … When using an RSG to restore data, and the RSG is created on USB storage, you will need to restart the SERVER service to reinitialise any admin shares for the USB disk

Remember, if your free tomorrow night … http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2009/05/11/mmmug-may-event-2009-introducing-exchange-2010.aspx

Dunno if you have seen these errors on an Exchange 2003 server .. Event ID: 9646 Type: Error Source: MSExchangeIS Description: Closing Mapi session "/o=Organization/ou=Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=user" because it exceeded the maximum of 250 objects of type "objMessage". KBs for this: ...

Okay do you know you can run Get-CASMailbox -Filter {HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true} to get a list of users that have an Activesync partnership. Now if you combine this with Get-ActivesyncDeviceStatistics you can get more details too.  Check it out: Get-CASMailbox -Filter {HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true} | foreach ...

Check these babies out! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/tnexchangeserver.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall Monday, June 01, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability (Level 300)  Welcome to the future!  The future of Exchange high availability, that is.  In this webcast, we reveal the changes and ...

Sweet, about time too, http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx but?!check out this too http://flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2008/06/13/windows-2008-backup-will-support-exchange-2007.aspx its a better way, but will not work on CCR clusters . . .As we mentioned in our Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009 - we ...

This is strange .. my RSS feed picked this but now it’s not on the web! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/11/451281.aspx Any way .. was expecting this a bit earlier .. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server ...

As you will no doubt have heard, Exchange 2010 was launched to the public on the 15th of April. This of course means that there is now a huge amount of new features and functionality to learn. So, to help you get started MMMUG will be running a series of events over the next few months covering many of the key areas. We start on Wednesday May ...

Might have missed this before, but cor bllimey a fix at last! Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/dynamickc.do?externalId=KB15155&sliceID=1&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=KB15155 Overview Out of Office (OOF) text appears to stop working 20 minutes after selecting this option from a BlackBerry smartphone. Cause ...

Just install forefront and here are the new cmdlets Name Synopsis  Add-FSSFilterListEntry Adds items to an existing filter list. Clear-FSEReport Resets a report about FSE activities. ...

So the idea of this feature is to give your users a mailbox Archive and for it look like a PST, but be stored on the server.  Suppose the idea is also as storage is cheap and this is a free feature in E2010, you won’t need the likes of Enterprise Vault to house your archives. So you can assign a Alternate Mailbox to any mailbox by ...

So April saw the release of Exchange 2010 Beta [that's Twenty Ten, not two thousand and ten ;-)] (Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 with Public Beta) #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for April 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New ...

I have done this before when moving log file locations in Exchange and it’s well cool and make life very easy! Source: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/03/24/clone-ntfs-permissions.aspx NTFS access permissions can be complex and tricky. To quickly assign NTFS permissions to a new folder, you can simply clone permissions from ...

Ohhhh, if ur an administrator, you can log in to OWA, select Options. Then change what you want to manage to “My Organization”. .. goes to the ECP website ;-) Now check it out … Users & Groups Rules .. Yeah transport rules ;-)   Reporting .. only message tracking

Thank gawd for that, the UI is back for Diagnostic Logging aka EventLogLevels Quite a few additions too Exchange 2007 Exchange 2010 MSExchange ActiveSync\Requests MSExchange ActiveSync\Requests MSExchange ActiveSync\Configuration MSExchange ActiveSync\Configuration ...

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=522da65d-5263-4f5d-b929-8428a394b9af The new Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 capacity planning tool helps customers understand what hardware, architecture, and configuration settings will produce recommended system performance and message throughput ...

Just a dump for my reference .. Snapin is called “Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010” get-help * | select name,pssnapin | where {$_.pssnapin -like "*exchange*"}  | sort name Add-ADPermission Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace Add-ContentFilterPhrase Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer ...

I’m doing requests now ;-) This script will dump a list of user accounts that have “Password never expires” checked $CurrentDomain = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::getcurrentdomain() $Forest = $CurrentDomain.Forest.ToString() $Forest = "dc=" + $Forest ...

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=75413&tab=overview Introduction In this online clinic, you are introduced to the new Unified Messaging features and functionalities in Exchange Server 2007. In addition, you learn how telephony and Unified Messaging can be integrated in Exchange Server 2007. This ...

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=117247&tab=overview Introduction This one-hour clinic describes Exchange Server 2010 features, deployment scenarios, and development platform options. It also contains descriptions of tools used for managing Exchange Server 2010. This clinic covers the following ...

It’s free training for you ;-) This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also describes the enhancements made over Exchange Server 2007. The clinics within this collection cover: New features in Exchange Server 2010 Technology enhancements Management tools used in ...

Scott your da maan .. check it out: How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta .. Now that Exchange Server 2010 is available to download and try in Beta format, I wanted to provide a quick blog on how to install the Exchange Server 2010 Beta. .. This is a bit worrying .. ...

Okay when you run setup you will need three additional downloads.  They are: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6&displaylang=en WinRM 2.0 CTP3 https://connect.microsoft.com/WSMAN/Downloads Windows PowerShell V2 Community Technology Preview 3 ...

okay so the official Microsoft press release has come out now too. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/apr09/04-15Exchange2010PR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — April 15, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today released a public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft’s unified communications family ...

yeah baby … source: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/default.aspx The public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft's unified communications family, is now available. Exchange 2010 is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology designed and developed to work on-premises and as an online ...

Ohh, check it out .. Mainstream Support Retired: 14/04/2009 TODAY! http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/Default.aspx?p1=1773 As for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 .. Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first .. that is today then! So Exchange 2003 ...

April already! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available from March 2009 Microsoft Transporter Suite Release Notes Version: 02.26.2009 The Microsoft Transporter Suite Release Notes contains up to date information that is not included in the Transporter Help file. The Transporter Release ...

Tom sent me some interesting links just in case you toast e2k7 users by mistake :-| Not tested this yet, but might just for the fun of it in my lab Undelete the OU/Users/Groups via ADRestore.net (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/guyt/entry12573.aspx) - or - ADRestore v1.1 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963906.aspx ...

Just a couple from today Test the service health for ALL of your E2k7 servers: Get-ExchangeServer | foreach{$_.name;Test-ServiceHealth} Start non running E2k7 services: Test-ServiceHealth | foreach{$x=$_;$x.ServicesNotRunning | start-service} I posted first to my twitter account: http://twitter.com/flaphead

This is really good.  I have used it before and it looks really sweet now Check it out: Announcing the release of Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer and https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ Have you ever installed an Exchange server and wanted to verify your Internet facing services were setup and configured properly? Things ...

About time too! 64bit support and Windows 2008! Source:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en#filelist Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools ...

Well the Exchange team blog says it all: Yes, it has been only 5 weeks since we shipped the last update roll-up on February 10 and usually our gap between roll-ups is about eight weeks. Since the release of update roll-up 6, we have fixed about 50 issues and wanted to go ahead and provide them to customers. … The release of the roll-up via ...

This is is quite a cool property of an object ... The TargetAddress property specifies the delivery address to which e-mail for this recipient should be sent.  So if you have played with the Quest Migration Tools you will know that this magic property is what they use to control where email is sent.  Anyway, I want to see how easy it is ...

this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch).  As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of last week strange things started to happen.  Nothing was logged in any event log, but ...

Is that February gone already! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*New Downloads available from February 2009 Ohh new UI Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1Version: 10.1 Help protect your Exchange server from viruses and other ...

So we all know RU6 is out, but have you checked out what it fixes? .. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959241/en-us Version2.0 says: 950675 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950675/ ) Downloaded .xls file attachments are empty when you open the files by using Outlook Web Access on Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 You use ...

So we have had a bit of snow in the UK, and here is A Month in Exchange for February 2009 ... and it's my Birthday on Wednesday (11th) :-D #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*New Downloads available from January 2009 Microsoft Online Migration ToolkitSample migration planning materials including: project plan, ...

Here is something interesting that Neil found with QMM. When Quest sees that the target server is a CCR cluster, it creates a duplicate of the exported PST data.  Basically it will create two folders (one for each cluster node) for the transmission agent to send to the target. It will copy the data to the passive node first, and then ...

I want to thank Neil for finding this. So in my lab I have a CCR cluster want just wanted to enable circular logging ... I just couldnt get it work, looks like I missed a step :-o http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb331951.aspx You can combine circular logging with continuous replication. In this configuration, you have a new type of ...

Couldn't work out why my Outlook stopped working, then i worked it out .. the damm self signed cert has expired ... (has it been a year already!) So my thanks Bharat for this: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html but I had to add some stuff to get it work properly!!! [PS] C:\PS>Get-ExchangeCertificate ...

So I was asked is there a way to see how your mailboxes grow (You know who you are!)  .. an interesting challenge for this time of the morning, but hey. Here we go, this script uses Get-Mailbox and the does a fudge to get the date only part from the whencreated attribute and creates and array with the name,database and date.  It then ...

Yeah, yeah I know it's not supported and doesn't work out of the box, but hey just got it to work, and it was dead simple. Basically get hold of the 64bit versions of ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll, and vssapi.dll from a Windows 2003 server. Now create folder on a Windows 2008 server that has the mailbox role installed and copy the files to ...

Happy New Year to you all, and lets hope this year is better than 2008! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*New Downloads available from December 2008 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol DocumentationThe Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications ...

This is just for me ;-) to remind me AGAIN about these errors:  Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: MSExchange ADAccessEvent Category: Topology Event ID: 2114Description:Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=2908). Topology discovery failed, error 0x80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC). Look up the Lightweight ...

So this was kinda enlightening ... the AD boys have setup for forest for me and schema / domain prepped too. But when I went to Install Exchange I kept getting: setup /mode:install /role:mt,mb,ca,ht Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup Preparing Exchange Setup The following server roles will be ...

How many shopping days until Christmas? #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available from November 2008 Microsoft Online Services Sign In Tool V1Service Client application that enables single sign-on to Microsoft Online Services. With this tool, ...

Check it out, Doug is back blogging http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/  I used to work with Doug and he knows his stuff and always amazes me with posts that make you go .. I didn't know that! So subscribe to his RSS and be amazed!

So inlight of RU5 I thought I would share this with you.  So we know the issue with the .net framework and the Certicate Revokation List. This script updates the Exchange 2007 .config files inline with 944752: Exchange Server 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange Server 2007 It will add the ...

The whole universe knows by now that RU5 for Exchange 2007 SP1 has hit the streets. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=652ed33a-11a1-459c-8ffe-90b9cbfe7903&DisplayLang=en Ninob over at the Exchange team blog says that it will be out via Microsoft Update in the next few weeks.  He also ...

Okay I have updates as follows: v1.0 27 October 2008 : A Script is bornv1.1 28 October 2008 : Add ability to expose Server Modelv1.2 31 october 2008 : Added email and commandline v1.3 4 November 2008 : Added option to check recent changesv1.4   6 November 2008 : Days commandline ...

Wow is all I have to say, this is a damm excellent article and script .. check it out: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124359.aspx Basically, it's a script that will recreate your owa virtual directories from a previous xml export! ..I just added a comment .. to create the export run:Get-ClientAccessServer | Get-OwaVirtualDirectory ...

Bit off my normal subjects, but I has an issue with registering Symantec Enterprise Security Manager on my Exchange 2007 CCR Clusters. Essentially when I attempted to register ESM on each node of an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster and I keep getting: C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\ESM\bin\w3s-ix64>register -rAvF -m <Manager> -U register -P ...

Just ignore this, I wanted to store this code snippet somewhere and this was the best place.  But if you are interested this will create a csv file from Get-MailboxStatistics, but with the TotalItemSize in MB ''DisplayName,TotalItemSize(MB),ItemCount,StorageLimitSize,Database,LegacyDN'' | out-file GMS.csv; get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | ...

Another thing I wanted to share.  If you want to say Get-MailboxServer but only want a subset of server you could try this: Get-MailboxServer | Where {$_.Name -LIKE ''*Serv01'' -OR $_.Name -LIKE ''Ex*NYC*''} Enjoy

Just wanted to share this with you all. So I have a number of scripts that I schedule to run either every 10 min, once a day or once a week.  It's simple really, I create .cmd file that I then use the task scheduler or schtasks to create.  Inside the .cmd file I have this: powershell c:\ps\Test-ExchangeServers.ps1 -localhost -testsmtp ...

So I have been creating a few scripts to automate the configuration of exchange, and wanted to use the -WhatIf switch so you can see what would or would not change. -WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]The WhatIf parameter instructs the command to simulate the actions that it would take on the object. By using the WhatIf parameter, you can vi ew what ...

So 16 people made it to this month MMMUG meeting at Microsoft in Victoria for a chat on Virtualization by Clive Watson & Brett Johnson Hyper-V runs  on Windows Server 2008 with Intel VT or AMD-V hardware.  You may need to enable virtualization in a servers BIOS and this may need to power cycle the server (a reboot may not be ...

This script uses Get-ExchangeServer to generate a list of  servers and will enumerate the Exchange Patch information and list the windows updates installed on the server.  This update changes the way the server list is generated and added the ability to check cluster nodes COMMANDLINE OPTIONS-EMAIL .......... Send an Email-Localhost ...

I mentioned this before as a way to script adding tasks to a server.  So I came across an issue the other day, where I ran it once, but then it failed on the second time: ERROR: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the ...

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A while back I posted this , but to have something more ''in your face'' I put a GUI around it, and this is the latest version. The script enumerates all messaging queue and displays it in a GUI. The GUI then refreshes every 10 seconds.THE GUI has four tabs: QueueDisplay the current queue MessageDisplays messages in the queue Top 5 Q’sThis ...

http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=7617&technology=6&prod=&prodfamily=&loc= Part of the Filling the Gaps Webcast SeriesExchange is first and foremost an e-mail server, and when e-mail servers were first designed, no one foresaw the massive dependence that would develop between organizations and their e-mail ...

http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=7495&technology=89&prod=&prodfamily=&loc=Presented by Keri Farrell, Product Manager, eDiscovery It's your job to keep your messaging system operating smoothly, so users aren't impacted.  If that's not enough, you also have to keep your data secure and comply with ...

You know sometimes you need to like automate as much of an Exchange build as possible.  Well I came across this the other day.  This was a small hole that needed to be fixed in my build. So we know that we need a few additional components for Exchange before you can install it.  I discovered the System Optional Component ...

I needed to get a quick list of the hotfixes installed on my Exchange 2007 servers. So I “knocked” this up ..  enjoy

Another silent movie ;-) of something I done a while back and wanted to share!

This is something I done a while back and wanted to share!