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Sunday, January 06, 2013 11:15 AM

Exchange Server 2013 Gotchas

Exchange Server 2013 reached RTM a couple of months ago and has since reached General Availability (GA). In my personal opinion, Exchange 2013 RTM is not ready for prime time. Microsoft made a decision to release all of Wave 15 (Office desktop applications...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:31 AM

Windows Management Framework 3.0 / PowerShell 3.0 and Exchange

In the last few days, Windows Management Framework 3.0 (WMF 3.0) has begun appearing in Microsoft Update (MU), Windows Update (WU), Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), and on Configuration Manager Software Update Points. This basically means that...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:23 PM

Wave 15 reaches RTM, including Exchange 2013

Wave 15 of Office products reached the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) stage today, October 11, 2012 (10/11/12 - heh). These products include Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, and Microsoft Office 2013. Note that RTM, also...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:23 PM

Security Advisory Affecting Exchange: 2749655

Today Microsoft released Security Advisory 2749655, Compatibility Issues Affecting Signed Microsoft Binaries . I encourage you to read the security advisory. We also saw that Exchange team post the following blog entry Re-released Exchange 2010 and Exchange...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:07 PM

Microsoft Security Advisory 2737111 - Exchange 2007/2010/2013

Well, in case you haven’t seen it, an Exchange Security advisory was released today. “Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Parsing Could Allow Remote Code Execution” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security...
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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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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:57 PM

Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get-ExchangeServer

If you write lots of Exchange scripts (as I do), and have several different versions of Exchange on which you need to run those scripts (as I do); you soon see the need for being able to determine what version of Exchange a particular server is running...
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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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Monday, April 02, 2012 12:51 PM

System Center 2012

The System Center 2012 suite released to web (RTW'ed) today. The suite will be officially announced at the Microsoft Management Summit on April 17th. This includes Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Service Manager, Data Protection Manager...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:48 PM

Enumerating IP Addresses on Network Adapters using PowerShell

Regardless of whether a server is for Exchange, for SQL, or for any other use; a key component of the server's configuration is the set of IP addresses assigned to it. Many organizations apply all addresses (even server addresses) using DHCP. For...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:34 AM

Sending an email to users whose password is about to expire, a PowerShell Rewrite

In September of 2005, I wrote a blog post named " Sending an e-mail to users whose password is about to expire ". Written in VBScript, it was one of my most popular blog posts of all time. I still have clients of mine that use it and I get occaisional...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011 7:52 AM

Installing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 was released-to-web on Monday (December 5, 2011). Containing literally hundreds of code corrections since service pack 1, plus several significant new features, service pack 2 is an important new release. I will not attempt...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:57 PM

Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership, v2

In August of 2010, I posted Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership . For most people, that script worked just fine. However, it had some issues: Large groups would cause PowerShell to generate an error about concurrent pipelines...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:07 AM

Welcome to Third Tier...

I've recently become associated with Third Tier , providing back-end support services along with the rest of their team. Third Tier is a consulting company for consultants. We are a group of senior consultants, providing support for other consultants...
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