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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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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 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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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:01 AM

Exchange Connections - Fall 2008

Next week, in Las Vegas, Nevada is the semiannual Connections conference. The Connections conference is a technical conference covering SQL Connections, Windows Connections, Exchange Connections, etc. There are lots of individual tracks, both for IT Pros...
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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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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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