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Managed Folders: Why aren’t Calendar items expired?

February 3, 2009

You’re testing Exchange 2007′s Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization’s messaging retention policies. You create a new Managed Folder for Calendar items, and then create a Managed Content Setting for it to expire Calendar items in 1 year. Next, you create a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy and add the Managed Folder to [...]

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Returning all recipients from the Forest in recipient cmdlets

December 9, 2008

If you’re trying to get recipients from the whole AD Forest using the Exchange shell, there are two things to be aware of: 1. Session scope: By default, the scope of your shell session is set to the Domain of the computer you’re running the session on.2. Result size: By default, shell cmdlets return 1000 [...]

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Start Managed Folder Assistant for a single mailbox

November 4, 2008

When testing Managed Folder Mailbox Policy settings in Exchange 2007, you may need to frequently run the Managed Folder Assistant (MFA)) to process a mailbox on-demand, so you can check the mailbox content and MRM logs. However, every time you run Start-ManagedFolderAssistant, the MFA processes all mailboxes on all Mailbox Databases on the server. Of [...]

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Disable Antispam agents on a Receive Connector

September 29, 2008

Exchange 2007′s antispam agents are enabled for all Receive Connectors on a transport server. Is there a way to disable the agents on a particular Receive Connector? Although not as simple as turning an agent off for each IP address or Receive Connector, Exchange 2007′s new transport permissions model allows you to do this just [...]

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Resource Mailbox Calendar Settings: Configuring resource mailboxes using OWA

September 26, 2008

Have you been using the Set-MailboxCalendarSettings cmdlet to configure scheduling settings for resource mailboxes? Wish there was a graphical interface to configure these settings? [PS] C:\>get-mailboxcalendarsettings cf-oahu | fl AutomateProcessing : AutoAcceptAllowConflicts : FalseBookingWindowInDays : 180MaximumDurationInMinutes : 1440AllowRecurringMeetings : TrueEnforceSchedulingHorizon : TrueScheduleOnlyDuringWorkHours : FalseConflictPercentageAllowed : 0MaximumConflictInstances : 0ForwardRequestsToDelegates : TrueDeleteAttachments : TrueDeleteComments : TrueRemovePrivateProperty : [...]

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Configuring Deleted Item Retention

September 16, 2008

After a user empties the Deleted Items folder, although these items disappear from the view of the mailbox, they are not completely deleted. They are retained till the Deleted Item Retention period expires in what’s fondly referred to as the Dumpster— not to be confused with the Transport Dumpster maintained by Hub Transport servers. Deleted [...]

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SCRIPT: Get Storage Group Backup Status

September 10, 2008

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Databases expose backup-related properties using the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet: Get-MailboxDatabase “My Database” -status | select *backup* | fl What you get back:BackupInProgress :SnapshotLastFullBackup :SnapshotLastIncrementalBackup :SnapshotLastDifferentialBackup :SnapshotLastCopyBackup :LastFullBackup :LastIncrementalBackup :LastDifferentialBackup :LastCopyBackup : Here’s a quick shell script that dumps each Storage Group and its backup-related information. I haven’t had the time to build in [...]

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HOW TO: Prevent annoying spam from your own domain

September 3, 2008

One of the more annoying types of spam is the one that seems to be coming from your own domain; or worse— from your own email address! Of course, users from your own domain don’t generally spam each other— unless you’re using one of the free web-based email services. And most of us don’t spam [...]

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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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