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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, August 16, 2010 4:31 PM

BlackBerry Enterprise Express (BES/X) on an Exchange Server and/or Domain Controller

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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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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Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:14 AM

Unified Communications (Exchange, OCS) Load Balancer Information

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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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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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:58 PM

Office 2010 Filter Pack for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

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...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:19 PM

Simplifying Life for Exchange Authors

Another Exchange MVP, Pat Richard , posted on Facebook yesterday: It would be nice to be able to import a list of all Exchange related PowerShell cmdlets into the Word and Outlook dictionaries. Being the helpful guy that I am, I responded: You can do...
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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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Monday, February 15, 2010 8:00 AM

Exchange Server 2010 IPC

IPC stands for, in this case, Information Protection and Control. Last week, I gave a presentation for Microsoft TechNet Webcasts on IPC functionality present in Exchange Server 2010. Several folks have told me it's pretty good. It's about 53...
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