Essential Exchange

Originally published November 30, 2004 Several months ago I wrote a small script about sending email via the Outlook object model. You can see that article here . The Outlook object model has a couple of problems - it requires user approval, and you don't have access to all the fields you may want...

Originally published November 30, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: this is much easier on Exchange 2007.) A common question on the mailing lists I frequent is “How do I change the text in the warning emails that are generated when a user hits their quota?” Given how easy it is to make so many other changes...

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 November 18, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: were I to rewrite this today, I would get most of this information from Active Directory. Some very small piece of it must come from other sources.) Whenever I come into a new client, I've got LOADS of questions about the Exchange environment...

Originally published November 9, 2004 A very common question on the various mailing lists I read is “How do I grant UserB permission to send email from UserA?” This often comes when a secretary, for example, wants to send mail as if (s)he were the boss. Of course, Microsoft has a KB on this ( KB 327000...

Originally published November 2, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: Paul's e2ksecurity blog is "no more" so that link is dead.) Everytime I think that this particular subject has been “put to sleep”, it gets brought back up again on one of the various mailing lists or newsgroups that I frequent...

Originally published October 25, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: It's easy again in Exchange 2007. I did not verify that these links are alive.) In Exchange 5.5, it was pretty easy to put an outgoing message disclaimer on every piece of email. With Exchange 200x, Microsoft changed the way all that...

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...

Originally published September 14, 2004 One of the common, perrennial and “whaddayamean I can't do this!?!” questions on the mailing lists is about putting Outlook and Exchange (which includes Exchange Admin!) on the same computer. It's not supported. And while it will often (usually) work if...