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Friday, April 26, 2013 12:17 PM

Reporting on primary and secondary SMTP addresses on Exchange objects

Most companies have a set of primary Internet domains (Exchange accepted domains) that they use to assign to users. However, a constant is that most companies also assign a secondary email address that has a domain which is identical for all of their...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:32 AM

PowerShell Quick Script: Finding the Exchange Schema Version

Every major Exchange release comes with updates to the Active Directory schema. In this case, "major release" means new major version (at RTM), every service pack, and (probably) every Cumulative Update with the new servicing model introduced...
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Friday, May 04, 2012 10:29 AM

Processing Large and Embedded Groups in PowerShell

I'm working with a client that has - over an extended period of time - accumulated thousands of security groups, most of which are mail enabled for use by both Exchange and for setting rights on various objects. Becasue they use embedded groups (that...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:53 PM

Finding Duplicate IP Addresses and Duplicate Names in a DNS Zone

One of the traditional issues associated with cleaning up an Active Directory Directory Services (AD DS) domain in DNS is to ensure that duplicate names in DNS are removed (this is typically an issue caused by not having DNS Scavenging enabled, or by...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:38 AM

Enumerating networks and building routes with PowerShell

I've been working with a company that is in the process of setting up a remote datacenter for disaster recovery. They brought me in to help design their Exchange cross-site resilience, and I've been helping them with a few other things too. Primary...
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Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:32 PM

A Somewhat Detailed Look at Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Schema Changes

At Exchange Connections 2011 in Las Vegas, Greg Taylor of Microsoft made a comment about some schema changes coming in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, that were enabling potential future feature content. This led to interest on my part to investigate those...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:17 PM

Exchange 2003 FE Servers vs. Server 2008 Active Directory

I spent eight hours over the last two days figuring out an interesting - but weird - problem. Once I figured out the problem, correcting it was a simple matter. I'll just give you the problem description and then the solution. Hopefully it will save...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:36 PM

More on Active Directory Privileged Groups and Exchange Server

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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Thursday, September 30, 2010 6:16 PM

Changing Security Groups to Distribution Groups

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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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:21 PM

Antivirus Exclusions and Windows

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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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:07 PM

Where oh where, did my AD site go...[Alternate title: It's the DNS, stupid.]

I recently had a very confusing issue arise at one of my Exchange 2007 clients and I decided to share it with you. At this particular company, an Active Directory site is reserved for Exchange, and there are two domain controllers (both global catalog...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:46 PM

Speeding Reboot When Exchange is on a DC/GC

As I've noted in several previous blog entries (such as here and here ), installing Exchange on a domain controller and/or a global catalog server is not a best practice. However, if you are running SBS (Small Business Server) or EBS (Essential Business...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:19 PM

The Experts Conference - TEC'2010

For the third time, I'll be speaking at the upcoming The Experts Conference, sponsored by Quest. I'll be discussing using Exchange Web Services (EWS) from PowerShell -- and for some reason, my abstract isn't yet posted on the conference website...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 PM

Exchange Server 2010 - Administrative Access to All Mailboxes

In Exchange 2010, the storage group has disappeared. Instead, the properties of a database and of a storage group have merged - the result being referred to as a database. Effectively, a database has been promoted to be as important as a storage group...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 7:45 AM

Mailbox Permissions: Pulling Back the Curtain...

Let's talk about mailbox permissions. People often get a little confused between store-level mailbox permissions and Active Directory-level mailbox permissions. They are similar but not the same. For clarity it may help for us to look at them all...
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