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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

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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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:53 PM

The Experts Conference 2009 (TEC'09)

Earlier this year, I wrote about presenting at Connections'08 in this article . That went so well, I've also applied (and been accepted) to speak at another conference - The Experts Conference (TEC). Up through 2008, TEC was known as DEC (the...
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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

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

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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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:34 PM

Exchange Server 2003 Security Review

The question was recently posed on a mailing list asking whether there was any book that covered the Exchange 2003 security model in depth. The question came up for the poster because of a recent video that is making the rounds on youtube and elsewhere...
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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, April 04, 2008 9:42

Exchange 2007 and Domain Rename

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Wrapping up SLDs and Exchange Server 2007 , anytime after PrepareAD is run, it is too late to run the Domain Rename (rendom) tool. As part of PrepareAD, the Exchange Server 2007 setup tool stamps the Active Directory...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:09

Wrapping up SLDs and Exchange Server 2007

In Single Level Domains and Exchange 2007 service pack 1 , I commented on the fact that Microsoft was no longer going to support single label domains starting with Exchange Server 2007 service pack 1. Then, in More on Single Label Domains and Exchange...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:13 PM

More on Exchange Server 2007 and MS08-003

In Problem Between Exchange Server 2007 and MS08-03 , I wrote about a problem introduced by MS08-003 that affected large Exchange environments. Last week, a hotfix was released for this problem. Surprisingly for many, it was actually an Active Directory...
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