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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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Monday, November 07, 2011 8:58 AM

Creating Explicit Credentials in PowerShell for WMI, Exchange, Lync, Remoting, etc.

When creating PowerShell cmdlets for any Microsoft technology - WMI, Exchange, Lync, etc. - it is common to need to provide credentials that are different from the default credentials. This can be even more important when you are using PowerShell remoting...
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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, 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 22, 2011 2:35 PM

Exchange 2010 Licensing Survey

Paul Robichaux, a personal friend and another Exchange MVP is a regular writer for WindowsITPro . While performing research for an upcoming article, he found out some interesting factoids about Microsoft Exchange 2010 licensing. I and other MVPs found...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011 6:40 AM

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Announced!

I originally wrote this article for CDOLive - Slipstick.com and it is republished with permission. The original article is available here . The article was written on May 19, 2011. Earlier this week, at TechEd in Atlanta, Greg Taylor of the Exchange Product...
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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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Friday, January 07, 2011 4:19 PM

Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange, v2

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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Friday, January 07, 2011 12:05 PM

Counting Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals

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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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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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:29 AM

Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 Update Provides Support for Exchange 2010 Personal Archives

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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Friday, November 19, 2010 8:28 AM

Moving a Mailbox Database Path

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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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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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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