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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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Friday, May 20, 2011 1:00 PM

Black Hole Distribution Groups

I had the question posed to me today: if I have a mail-enabled group (either a security group or a distribution group) that has no members, and it receives an email, why don't I get an NDR? Well - works as intended! Let's have a thought experiment...
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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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Monday, August 30, 2010 8:10 AM

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 and Required Hotfixes

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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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:22 PM

Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership

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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Monday, July 19, 2010 11:32 AM

Exchange Email Address Template Objects in PowerShell

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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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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Friday, May 28, 2010 5:06 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #5

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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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:45 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #4

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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Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:16 AM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #3

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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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:42 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #2

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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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:12 PM

The ms-Exch-Store-Admin permission

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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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:34 AM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #1

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...
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