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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:45 PM

Exchange Disk Space, version 2.1

It was pointed out to me, by a party that shall remain nameless, that I depended in today's earlier post Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange Version 2 , that I ASSumed that msExchCurrentServerRoles would never be higher than 64 and that that was a...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:36 AM

Finding Disk Space Used by Exchange, version 2

In July of 2006, I had a blog entry named Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange , and it was quite well received and it worked well for most people. However, it had a few issues: It doesn't work with Exchange Server 2007 because the streaming file was...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 2:30 PM

Creating Many Users with PowerShell and Admod

One of the mailing lists I read and occaisionally post on is named ActiveDir. A lot of heavy-hitters in the AD world hang-out around there. I've learned quite a bit by lurking there. A recent poster had wanted to create a few thousand accounts for...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:18 PM

Chapter 12 - Exchange 2003 Scripting

Over three years ago, a particular publisher in the computer field contracted me to write a book - which I did. They paid me for it, but they chose to never publish it. It was written with Exchange Server 2003 service pack 1 in mind - as you read the...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:36 PM

Displaying Security on Active Directory, Exchange, and Registry Objects

Originally published July 19, 2006 A common request is “how do I determine what security applies to a given [user | mailbox | registry value]”? The attached script shows you how to do that. None of this is unique to me, I just put it together in a pretty...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:30 PM

Finding disk space used by Exchange

Originally published July 11, 2006 I apologize for the long absence, but I've been tied up in Exchange 2007 testing and learning. If you haven't seen it yet - just wait. You'll be very impressed, especially from the administrator's perspective...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:45 PM

Working with Binary Data (GUIDs) in VBScript

Originally published March 9, 2005 Recently, I've spent a great deal of time learning to deal with GUIDs and other somewhat arbitrary binary data within VBScript. While it isn't easy to figure out how, and the conventional wisdom says “don't...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:26 PM

Checking ProxyAddresses for Duplicates

Originally published December 30, 2004 Today I needed to know if all of my proxyaddresses (that is, the entries on the “E-Mail Addresses” tab in Active Directory Users and Computers) were unique. ADU&C prevents you from entering a duplicate manually...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:06 PM

ADModify now generally available

Originally published July 29, 2007 ADModify is a tool that used to be only available from PSS directly (i.e., you had to place a call to get them to send it to you). It's a great tool for making global GUI-based modifications to your A/D, with a strong...
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