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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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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, December 01, 2008 5:00 PM

Fixing the scripts in Chapter 12 - Exchange 2003 Scripting

A reader recently pointed out to me that several of the last scripts in my post Chapter 12 - Exchange 2003 Scripting were corrupted. I've corrected those. And now you should be able to enjoy them! Until next time... As always, if there are items you...
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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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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 7:26 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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