Essential Exchange

Originally published July 11, 2006 I write many many many Exchange scripts. There are some things that are common in Exchange script - you need to get mailbox sizes, or a list of all the servers in an administrative group, or a list of all Exchange servers, etc. So, I ended up encapsulating all of those...

Originally published April 30, 2005 Given the techniques we learned in this article about working with binary data in VBScript, plus a simple technique for creating GUIDs in VBScript, we are now prepared to use those capabilities in creating Exchange Server objects. A GUID is a Globally Unique Identifier...

Originally published November 18, 2004 It's a common request to set mailbox limits for all the users in a particular OU or for all the users in a group. That functionality is not built-in to Exchange. The following script shows you how to do both and hopefully, is fairly self-explanatory. Option...

Originally published October 5, 2004 OK, I knew there would be bugs. :-) The first bug someone found is that the original script doesn't verify uniqueness of the User Principal Name. As I discuss elsewhere, Active Directory doesn't verify that either (which could be considered a bug in A/D, in...

Originally published September 30, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: this will work with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, but not with Exchange 2007.) Getting back to scripting, I've finally scrubbed and sanitized and cleaned up one of my core provisioning scripts. While finding small example scripts...