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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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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, December 22, 2009 5:06 PM

Exchange Server 2010 RTM and Organizational Health miscalculation

Exchange Server 2010 is starting to get some traction, with companies beginning to install it and put it into their test labs. An issue - that is obviously a flat out bug - is that the Exchange Management Console (EMC) for Exchange Server 2010 misreports...
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Friday, October 16, 2009 12:57 PM

Exporting Mailboxes Larger Than 2 GB On An Exchange Server

At one point, the MAPI used by Exchange was the same as the MAPI used by Outlook. But many years ago (literally - pre-Exchange 5.5) the MAPI used by Exchange server began to diverge from the MAPI used by Outlook. This isn't particularly surprising...
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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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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:10 AM

Exchange Connections - ONLINE!

I speak at a number of conferences, usually including those put on by Penton Media. Their conferences are called Connections, and a conference is held each fall and spring. During last fall's conference, a bunch of folks got together and convinced...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:28 PM

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate

After a wait of almost 24 hours - the download is available. Yesterday, the Microsoft Exchange team announced the immediate availability of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate with this posting. However.... there was a complication... it wasn't...
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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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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:10 AM

TEC'2009 Berlin (The Experts Conference)

TEC'2009 is coming up soon... I'll be there and I hope you will be too. TEC is a place to get acquainted with some of the top folks in Active DIrectory, ILM/FIM, and Exchange. Here is what Gil Kirkpatrick, the founder of the conference had to...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:36 PM

MAPI in the registry (Or, setting the "use HTTP first" boxes via VBScript)

First off, I didn't use PowerShell because I use the script in this article as a login script - and while I'm sure that the Windows Scripting Host is installed everywhere, I can't be sure that PowerShell is installed everywhere. It will be...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:23 PM

msExchTargetBridgeheadServersDN and msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN Errors with Routing Group Connectors

I'm working with a client this week on migrating them from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Their Exchange 2003 environment is a weird one - a A/A/A/P/P cluster. That's right - Active/Active/Active/Passive/Passive. Whoever sold them...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:33 PM

Removing Old Emailaddresses/ProxyAddresses in Exchange 2007

I have a client who has multiple business units. Each business unit is placed into its own Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory and the business unit has its own unique Email Address Policy (EAP) that (using a RecipientFilter) assigns specific...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:16 PM

Microsoft MVP 2009...

Yesterday I was notified that my MVP was renewed for another year (MVPs are awarded for one-year at a time, and there is a quarterly cycle of Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct). This is my sixth MVP award and part of it is due to you, my loyal readers! Officially, my MVP...
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