From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Delay Notifications: Informing users about delays in mail delivery

July 29, 2008

Users consider email to be a reliable communication mechanism – not as reliable as the dial tone, but pretty close. Most users expect mail to be delivered within minutes, if not seconds. Many organizations, including those operating in the financial & banking sectors, have strict SLAs for mail delivery which specify mail delivery times granularly— [...]

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PowerShell: Listing multi-valued attributes

July 28, 2008

In previous posts, we’ve taken a look at how to update multi-valued attributes and remove values from multi-valued attributes using PowerShell/Exchange Shell (EMS). Multi-valued attributes have a special significance in AD, and interfaces/APIs used to access AD. Whereas single-valued attributes can be retrieved and updated quite easily, multi-valued attributes come with a twist. Values from [...]

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Where are mailbox last logon, client IP address, and other details in Exchange 2007?

July 24, 2008

In Exchange Server 2003/2000, expanding a Mailbox Database (MDB) provides information about mailboxes in a database, last logon/logoff times and account(s) that logged on to mailboxes (see ‘Displaying Client IP Address in Exchange System Manager‘ for details). Figure 1: In Exchange 2003, the Logons node displays Store logon-related information. Click here to see a bigger [...]

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Powered by Hyper-V: Exchangepedia virtualized!

July 16, 2008

Finally, it was time to bid adieu to the endearing Dell box that served Exchangepedia for >4 years with all of its might (psssst… that means a 400 Mhz. PIII processor with 256 Mb. RAM.. :). Time to leave the world of phsyical servers, and move on to the virtualization world! Today the site was [...]

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Script: Listing Distribution Groups a recipient is a member of

July 15, 2008

It’s easy to get a list of all members of a Distribution Group. The Exchange shell (EMS) ships with the Get-DistributionGroupMember cmdlet that makes it a short one-liner (compared to 100s of lines of code in VBS). However, how do we get all Distribution Groups a user, group, or contact is a member of? There’s [...]

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IIS 7 Authentication: What happened to the IUSR_MachineName account?

July 8, 2008

In previous versions of IIS, the IUSR_MachineName account is created for anonymous authentication. This is an actual user account created on the server (a domain account can be used in domain environments), and like all user accounts— it has a SID, and an account password with the accompanying management costs and risks. One of the [...]

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Released: Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

July 8, 2008

Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. Fixes for the following issues are included (details in in KB 949870): 937436 Error message when an Exchange 2007-based user sends a meeting request to a resource that is located in a Lotus Domino resource reservation database: “Error autoprocessing message” 941770 [...]

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Creating a Dynamic Distribution Group for all mailboxes on a Database

July 7, 2008

I posted about this in Adventures with OPATH: some annoyances if you’re used to LDAP, shortly after Exchange Server 2007 RTMed (Yes, it has really been that long… ). Here’s a quick recipe to create a Dynamic Distribution Group to include all mailboxes on a database. $DB = (Get-MailboxDatabase “SERVER\Storage Group\Mailbox Database”).distinguishedName New-DynamicDistributionGroup MyGroup -RecipientFilter [...]

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Controlling OOFs per domain and per mailbox

July 7, 2008

OOFs can be controlled per domain using Remote Domain settings. By default, setup creates the default Remote Domain for address space *. (As with Connector namespaces, * translates to all domains for which Exchange isn’t authoritative/has an Accepted Domain for, and doesn’t have an explicit Remote Domain for). Figure 1: Remote Domains allow control of [...]

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Released: RDP Client for Mac 2

July 4, 2008

If you’re a Mac user, connecting to Windows servers and desktops just got a lot better. The much anticipated RDP Client for Mac 2 has been released. The RDP Client for Mac 2 is available in 8 languages (including English). Download it here. New features include multi-session support, new Network Level Authentication (NLA) that completes [...]

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