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As you are probably aware, Exchange 2010 service pack 1 was released last week, on the Internet (a so-called RTW [release to web] by Microsoft) at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog . The release posting was The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange...
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A common request is to get a list of all distribution groups and the members contained in that distribution group. The question came up on a mailing list I frequent today, and my initial response was a PowerShell "one-liner" (actually five lines...
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On a mailing list recently, SBS author and PowerShell MVP Charlie Russel posted how he used PowerShell to check whether a given PowerShell session was elevated. He also used that information to change the background color of the session (elevated shells...
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I recently provided input to Marriette Knap , a Small Business Server MVP, in a blog posting of her's called How to install BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express on a SBS 2008 . I believe that this posting is the best resource for installing BES/X...
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Exchange has a very rich set of objects which are used and created by the various Exchange cmdlets. Unfortunately, these objects (excepting those used by Exchange Web Services) are poorly documented - and the documentation which is available is often...
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In December of 2007, I made two posts: File Level Antivirus for Exchange and Information Store Antivirus for Exchange . Since that time, there is no question that with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 (and the ongoing advancement of various Internet-based...
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Microsoft has finally released detailed documentation regarding load balancing with both Exchange Server 2010 and OCS 2007 R2. There are three VERY interesting documents available that you should give a read. They are: Understanding Load Balancing in...
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You may - or may not - need to register Filter Packs after you install them. As a prerequsite for installing Exchange 2010, you must install the Office 2007 Filter Packs . As noted in a recent blog post of mine, Office 2010 Filter Pack for Exchange 2007...
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One of the prerequisites for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 is to install the "filter packs". The filter packs are responsible for "filtering" the content of Microsoft Office documents and passing those contents back to the Indexing...
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Another Exchange MVP, Pat Richard , posted on Facebook yesterday: It would be nice to be able to import a list of all Exchange related PowerShell cmdlets into the Word and Outlook dictionaries. Being the helpful guy that I am, I responded: You can do...
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Public Folder Contacts Can't Replicate If you have a public folder contact that includes an e-mail address, there is also an e-mail address type field that is associated with every e-mail address. Note: You cannot see this e-mail address type field...
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The TrustedInstaller - Isn't. Generally, when applying patches (whether service packs or hotfixes or rollups), the installation process will automatically acquire all the necessary permissions - if the user executing the process CAN acquire those...
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Incoming e-mail CAN'T come in! This issue is not exclusive to Exchange 2010 - it also exists in Exchange 2007. The default receive connector created by the Exchange setup process does not include permissions to include "Anonymous users"...
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In last week's blog post, Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #1 , I use the Add-AdPermission PowerShell cmdlet to add a set of permissions to each mailbox database. One of those permissions was the ms-Exch-Store-Admin permission. If you've ever installed...
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As I work through migrations to Exchange Server 2010 with my various clients, I'm developing a list of Exchange 2010 "gotchas". Not necessarily things that are earth-shattering, but do have the potential to be surprising to administrators...