Essential Exchange

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...

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...

One of the mailing lists I read and occaisionally post on is named ActiveDir. A lot of heavy-hitters in the AD world hang-out around there. I've learned quite a bit by lurking there. A recent poster had wanted to create a few thousand accounts for testing purposes, and have them all follow a certain...

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...

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 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 March 9, 2005 Recently, I've spent a great deal of time learning to deal with GUIDs and other somewhat arbitrary binary data within VBScript. While it isn't easy to figure out how, and the conventional wisdom says “don't do it”, after establishing some basic rules and...

Originally published December 30, 2004 Today I needed to know if all of my proxyaddresses (that is, the entries on the “E-Mail Addresses” tab in Active Directory Users and Computers) were unique. ADU&C prevents you from entering a duplicate manually, but it's possible for a script or for the...

Originally published July 29, 2007 ADModify is a tool that used to be only available from PSS directly (i.e., you had to place a call to get them to send it to you). It's a great tool for making global GUI-based modifications to your A/D, with a strong focus on those required for Exchange. It's...