Essential Exchange

The authors of the upcoming "Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit" asked me if I wanted to write a script for them for a section named "From The Field". I said sure! I based the script on one I wrote a long time ago, which you can access here . So the readers have 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...

I'm in the process of tech-reviewing an important book (you'll want it on your shelf once it is released), and one of the things I did today was spend a while figuring out how to do Attribute Scoped Queries in PowerShell. If you develop in C# or C++, or use adfind to do your searches, those tools...

I don't often just link to another blog posting for MY blog posting, but this one deserves it. It's not new, but last year fellow Exchange MVP Glen Scales wrote a script which allows you to export large mailboxes to ANSI PSTs. It does this by copying each item in a source mailbox to a destination...

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...

If you are a regular reader, then you know I've been working on a major SharePoint/MOSS upgrade the last couple of months. It's finally winding down to a close and should finish up this week. One of my duties as part of this process has been to produce a series of scripts that automate the upgrade...

In March of 2006, I authored this blog post, Finding Services Using non-System Accounts , with the script being written in VBscript. Two years later, most of my environment is now in PowerShell. So, I've decided to update that post with the PowerShell equivalent. The VBscript version of the utility...

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...