Essential Exchange

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 text, keep in mind that it was written long before...

A number of parameters for EMS (the Exchange Management Shell - which is just PowerShell v1 plus the Exchange snap-ins) require the specification of a multivalued property. A multivalued property is just what it sounds like - a property that has multiple values. A very common one is the RemoteIPRanges...

Almost everything you can buy in the server market these days is 64-bit capable - whether AMD or Intel. Almost. Much of what you buy in the desktop market is 64-bit capable - whether AMD or Intel. Much. Why do you care? Exchange Server 2007 is only supported in production on 64-bit servers running 64...

Originally published June 28, 2007 This post and the script is Exchange 2003 friendly. As long as you point the “ExchServer” in the attached script to an Exchange 2003 server, this script can work in a mixed environment containing Exchange 2000, Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2003 servers. It will not work...

Originally published November 10, 2006 So, in today's earlier post, I talked about exporting the message tracking logs into XML and then using an XSL sheet to report on that data. What's the problem with that? Well, the ESM Message Tracking Center (MTC) will only export 1,000 entries - maximum...

Originally published November 10, 2006 The message tracking log files that Exchange 2003 generates contain very useful information, especially if “Enable subject logging and display” is enabled. See the image below: Note that the log files are kept, by default, in the folder C:\Program Files\ExchSrvr...

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 little script. Most of the script can be found...

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 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. Especially when used in concert with Outlook...

Originally published December 28, 2005 (Note November 13, 2007: this works with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003; but not Exchange 2007 and above.) I've been promising an update to my Exchange Catchall script, since almost the week it was first released. The number one request has always been for...