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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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Troubleshooting Exchange Performance: Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool

September 3, 2008

Interested in monitoring and troubleshooting Exchange Server performance? Check out the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool on CodePlex. PAL creates some great reports that provide a better analysis of Exchange performance data than actually looking at perfmon counters all day. Mike Lagase has more details in his blog post “Performance Troubleshooting using the PAL [...]

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Quarantine Mailbox: Displaying original SCL, sender and recipients

August 20, 2008

In Exchange Server 2007, messages delivered to the quarantine mailbox show up as DSNs sent by the postmaster address of the default domain. In HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages, we modified the QTNE.cfg form for Microsoft Outlook to reveal original senders and recipients. Although the original sender and recipient fields [...]

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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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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: New Whitepapers on Continuous Replication and Planning for Large Mailboxes

July 1, 2008

New whitepapers have been released today on TechNet. Whitepaper: Continuous Replication Deep Dive- written by Ross Smith IV and Scott Schnoll This whitepaper discusses the different components of Continuous Replication— used by LCR, CCR and SCR, how replication works, backups and log file truncation, what happens during scheduled and unscheduled outages, and how Continuous Replication [...]

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Modifying Display Templates and additional attributes

June 20, 2008

Recently got a question about customizing the GAL and my previous post that talks about it: “HOW TO: Modify Display Template to make default email address appear in Address Book/GAL“. In Exchange 2010/2007, the new Details Template Editor can be found in EMC | Tools. The editor makes it much easier to modify templates and [...]

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Updated: Mailbox Server Role Storage Calculator v14.7

June 12, 2008

An updated version of the Mailbox Server Role Storage Calculator (let’s just call it Storage Calculator or StorageCalc? :) has been released. More details about v14.7 in Ross’ post on the team blog: Updates to the Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

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Released: MAPI Client and CDO 1.2.1 for Exchange 2007

June 2, 2008

The Exchange Server 2007 base package does not include MAPI client libraries and CDO components that can be used by applications. MAPI and CDO are used to programmatically connect to Exchange Stores. These have been released as a web download. Download ExchangeMapiCdo.MSI from microsoft.com.

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