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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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Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:26 AM

Export Mailboxes Larger than 2 GB to ANSI PSTs

I don't often just link to another blog posting for MY blog posting, but this one deserves it. It's not new, but last year fellow Exchange MVP Glen Scales wrote a script which allows you to export large mailboxes to ANSI PSTs. It does this by...
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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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Friday, February 08, 2008 9:44 AM

Multivalued Parameters in PowerShell (RemoteIPRanges in Set-ReceiveConnector)

A number of parameters for EMS (the Exchange Management Shell - which is just PowerShell v1 plus the Exchange snap-ins) require the specification of a multivalued property. A multivalued property is just what it sounds like - a property that has multiple...
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Monday, January 21, 2008 6:13 PM

32-bit or 64-bit - What Is My Processor?

Almost everything you can buy in the server market these days is 64-bit capable - whether AMD or Intel. Almost. Much of what you buy in the desktop market is 64-bit capable - whether AMD or Intel. Much. Why do you care? Exchange Server 2007 is only supported...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:52 PM

A Script for Getting Mailbox Sizes (using WMI in PowerShell)

Originally published June 28, 2007 This post and the script is Exchange 2003 friendly. As long as you point the “ExchServer” in the attached script to an Exchange 2003 server, this script can work in a mixed environment containing Exchange 2000, Exchange...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:43 PM

More Exchange Message Tracking

Originally published November 10, 2006 So, in today's earlier post, I talked about exporting the message tracking logs into XML and then using an XSL sheet to report on that data. What's the problem with that? Well, the ESM Message Tracking Center...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:39 PM

Exchange Message Tracking

Originally published November 10, 2006 The message tracking log files that Exchange 2003 generates contain very useful information, especially if “Enable subject logging and display” is enabled. See the image below: Note that the log files are kept, by...
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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 8:33 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 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 8:23 PM

Exchange 200x Catchall Script, Version 2

Originally published December 28, 2005 (Note November 13, 2007: this works with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003; but not Exchange 2007 and above.) I've been promising an update to my Exchange Catchall script, since almost the week it was first released...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:13 PM

Sending an e-mail to users whose password is about to expire

Originally published September 13, 2005 (Note November 13, 2007: My second most popular blog post ever. Also due for some cleanup and re-write.) This has come up a number of times, and I actually thought I'd blogged about it in the past -- but I guess...
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