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Long ago and far away (way back in 2006) I wrote an article for finding the disk space used by Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, Finding disk space used by Exchange . While this worked through a few Exchange 2007 betas, by Exchange 2007 RTM, the STM file...
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Each January, April, July, and October Microsofts recognizes certain individuals who - at no payment - assist in providing support to other Microsoft customers in various online forums, mailing lists, news groups, etc. Microsoft calls these people MVPs...
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In October of 2008, I wrote the article adminCount, adminSDHolder, SDProp and you! This article discussed why membership in privileged groups could cause permissions challenges. You may want to refer to it before proceeding. With Exchange Server 2010...
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Yesterday was a major day for patch releases in the Exchange and Outlook world. For Exchange, Exchange 2010 SP1 got UR2, Exchange 2007 SP3 got its UR2. Exchange 2010 RTM got UR5, and Exchange 2007 SP2 got its UR5. For detailed information about the Exchange...
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In Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, added functionality in Move-Mailbox (and New-MoveRequest), along with the support of online mailbox moves have reduced the requirement of moving entire databases around very much (it's easier to just move all the...
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In Exchange Server 2010, you cannot create a new Distribution Group that is not a Universal group. If your Exchange 2010 installation was upgraded from a prior release of Exchange Server, you may find Distribution Groups created in those earlier versions...
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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...