Essential Exchange

I have a client who has multiple business units. Each business unit is placed into its own Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory and the business unit has its own unique Email Address Policy (EAP) that (using a RecipientFilter) assigns specific email addresses to all users in that OU. The client...

I was recently a guest on the "Get-PodCast PowerScripting" podcast, discussing (primarily) Exchange Server 2010. To listen to the podcast, Episode 73, MVP Michael Smith Talks Exchange . Until next time... If there are things you would like to see written about, please let me know!

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) you could perform this control on a remote workstation...

In UNIX/Linux/whatever there is this little utility called 'od' which makes it trivial to dump the output of a file in multiple formats. Yesterday, I was working on a project and needed something similar. I could've downloaded Cygwin and installed it, or UnixUtils from Sourceforge, but no...

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 would add one fact: the current Active Directory forest...

In my first article on Multi-valued Parameters in PowerShell , I discussed a certain class of array parameters that Exchange 2007 uses many times - the [System.Object[]] (i.e., array of arbitrary elements) class for RemoteIpRanges. Unfortunately, that isn't the only multi-valued type used by PowerShell...

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...

In my article Getting a List of Stores in a PowerShell Script you learned how to obtain a list of all the files involved for the Exchange database stores on a particular Exchange server. In the preceding article, Getting a List of Storage Groups in a PowerShell Script , you learned how to obtain a list...

In my last post, Getting a List of Storage Groups in a PowerShell Script , you saw how to use the information from the Get-StorageGroup cmdlet to discover the particular disk volumes used by a storage group and to build a list of the files that were used by the storage group. Now, that list of files...

In Getting Our Computername in a PowerShell Script , you learned how to do just that - store the running computer name (the short NetBIOS name) into a PowerShell variable. At the same time, you learned WHY and HOW it worked. From this point forward, I'll presume that you've executed this particular...