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Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:32 PM

A Somewhat Detailed Look at Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Schema Changes

At Exchange Connections 2011 in Las Vegas, Greg Taylor of Microsoft made a comment about some schema changes coming in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, that were enabling potential future feature content. This led to interest on my part to investigate those...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:17 PM

Exchange 2003 FE Servers vs. Server 2008 Active Directory

I spent eight hours over the last two days figuring out an interesting - but weird - problem. Once I figured out the problem, correcting it was a simple matter. I'll just give you the problem description and then the solution. Hopefully it will save...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:36 PM

More on Active Directory Privileged Groups and Exchange Server

In October of 2008, I wrote the article adminCount, adminSDHolder, SDProp and you! This article discussed why membership in privileged groups could cause permissions challenges. You may want to refer to it before proceeding. With Exchange Server 2010...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010 6:16 PM

Changing Security Groups to Distribution Groups

In Exchange Server 2010, you cannot create a new Distribution Group that is not a Universal group. If your Exchange 2010 installation was upgraded from a prior release of Exchange Server, you may find Distribution Groups created in those earlier versions...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:21 PM

Antivirus Exclusions and Windows

In December of 2007, I made two posts: File Level Antivirus for Exchange and Information Store Antivirus for Exchange . Since that time, there is no question that with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 (and the ongoing advancement of various Internet-based...
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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, 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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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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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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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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Monday, March 30, 2009 5:47 AM

TEC'09 In Review

Last week I attended and spoke at "The Experts Conference" ( www.tec2009.com ) in Las Vegas. I spoke on using VSS with Exchange, and on designing highly available solutions and infrastructure. This was the eighth year for this conference. In...
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Monday, March 02, 2009 1:28 PM

Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager 2007

Just a few days ago, my new book (of the subject title!) started shipping from Amazon. If it hasn't already, it should start appearing in your local bookstores this week. If you want to order from Amazon, you can get it here . Eight months in the...
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