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Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM

Microsoft Enters Collaboration Hosting Arena

In a move that was likely a surprise to no-one, last week Microsoft announced its offering for hosted Exchange 2007, hosted SharePoint (MOSS 2007, not WSS 3.0), and hosted LiveMeeting. This was the next logical progression from the Microsoft Office Live...
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Monday, February 11, 2008 4:51 PM

Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007

I first got really interested in Exchange Server when I started working on hosting the product for multiple companies (while using only a single server environment). In fact, I started this blog to talk mainly about hosted Exchange. My interests have...
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Monday, December 17, 2007 7:08 AM

Moving from In-House Exchange to Hosted Exchange

In the December 13, 2007 EMO (Exchange Messaging Outlook) e-newsletter, I had an article titled "'Tis The Season To Host - Or Not?" regarding hosting your Exchange services. You can read this article at http://www.slipstick.com/emo/index...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 5:52 PM

Changing User Passwords with Outlook 2003/2007

Generally speaking, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 have a built-in mechanism that allows a user to change their password. In Outlook 2007, you find this (almost) hidden capability at Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced Options -> Custom Forms...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:33 PM

Utility Libraries for Exchange Scripting

Originally published July 11, 2006 I write many many many Exchange scripts. There are some things that are common in Exchange script - you need to get mailbox sizes, or a list of all the servers in an administrative group, or a list of all Exchange servers...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:49 PM

Creating an Offline Address List in VBScript

Originally published April 30, 2005 Given the techniques we learned in this article about working with binary data in VBScript, plus a simple technique for creating GUIDs in VBScript, we are now prepared to use those capabilities in creating Exchange...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:47 PM

Forcing an Offline Address Book to get Updated

Originally published April 26, 2005 I haven't disappeared! I'm writing a book for O'Reilly and that consumes most of my non-work time. A question that I've answered three times in the last week: it seems to take a long time for my Offline...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:14 PM

Setting Mailbox Limits by OU and by Group

Originally published November 18, 2004 It's a common request to set mailbox limits for all the users in a particular OU or for all the users in a group. That functionality is not built-in to Exchange. The following script shows you how to do both...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:53 PM

Adding a Hosted Exchange User With VBScript - Patch 1

Originally published October 5, 2004 OK, I knew there would be bugs. :-) The first bug someone found is that the original script doesn't verify uniqueness of the User Principal Name. As I discuss elsewhere, Active Directory doesn't verify that...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:44 PM

Adding a Hosted Exchange User With VBScript

Originally published September 30, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: this will work with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, but not with Exchange 2007.) Getting back to scripting, I've finally scrubbed and sanitized and cleaned up one of my core provisioning...
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