Essential Exchange

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 earlier years it was known as DEC (Directory Experts...

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 making, this book was a labor of love. Including information...

The userAccountControl attribute, which resides on each user and computer object in an Active Directory forest, is responsible for, well, controlling lots of things about those accounts. For example it controls whether an account is locked out, or whether an account is disabled, or whether the password...

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 Directory Experts Conference) and it focused exclusively...

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 would like me to talk about, please drop me a line...

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 and Devs. I'll be speaking next week at the...

Quick Synopsis Ever had the permissions on a user object keep changing and you don't know why? Well, this article tells you why and how to fix it. If you just want to know how to fix it, page down to the Resolution section, and skip the Technical Explanation . Technical Explanation One of the many...

I'm working with a new client and this client is a "wholly owned subsidiary" of another company and is getting ready to be spun off as their own company. One of the things we are doing is configuring their network to be standalone and not part of the corporate Active Directory. That involves...

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 bad assumption on my part, for reasons that shall...

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 removed from Exchange If a Recovery Storage Group...