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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:36 PM

A Brief History of Time...(ok ok, let's go with "An Introduction to the Windows Time Service")

Note: This article is written for "modern" versions of the Windows operating system - that is, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For older versions of the Windows operating system, the concepts still...
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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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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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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 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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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:09 PM

Getting the Contents of an Active Directory Integrated DNS Zone

Microsoft has long offered (where "long" means "since Windows Server 2003") the "dnscmd.exe" program to control the actions of a DNS server. And, if you installed the adminpack (RSAT-Tools-DNS on Vista/Server 2008 and above...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:47 AM

Hex and decimal output in PowerShell

In UNIX/Linux/whatever there is this little utility called 'od' which makes it trivial to dump the output of a file in multiple formats. Yesterday, I was working on a project and needed something similar. I could've downloaded Cygwin and installed...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:52 PM

Backing Up Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008

It has been suggested to me that my series on backing up Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 was so complicated that the content was truly inaccessible for the novice admin. For that, I apologize. At heart, I am a techie kind of guy and I spend...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:22 PM

Handling the userPrincipalName in PowerShell

I dealt with the importance of the userPrincipalName in one of my very early blog postings, dated May 26, 2004: The User Principal Name and You . While my company has changed, the basic information contained within that post has not changed at all. I...
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Friday, January 30, 2009 2:14 PM

A Small Patch: Online Exchange Backup

If you only had a single storage group, the script in Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7) would not find any storage groups. The primary reason for that I always have a RSG too! :-) The fix is easy. In getStoragegroups...
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:56 AM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7)

In the first five parts of this series, I've given you the background to understand how Exchange backup works when using VSS and how to acquire the necessary information from your Exchange server to know what you should back up. Today, I present to...
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Friday, January 23, 2009 1:49 PM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Using Diskshadow for Online Exchange Backup (part 5 of 7)

If you hadn't noticed, I've been following a theme the last couple of months with some of the entries on this blog: Part 1: Getting a List of Storage Groups in a PowerShell Script Part 2: Getting a List of Stores in a PowerShell Script Part 3...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:04 AM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Offline Exchange Backup

In my article Getting a List of Stores in a PowerShell Script you learned how to obtain a list of all the files involved for the Exchange database stores on a particular Exchange server. In the preceding article, Getting a List of Storage Groups in a...
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