March 2006

Calibri – a new font from Windows Vista

I recently saw a new font installed on my “production” laptop (running Windows XP SP2) – Calibri. Calibri is a beautiful humanist sans serif typeface designed by Dutch designer Luc(as) De Groot, and one I started using immediately as the default in Word documents and email. My earlier attempts at using another font that seems […]

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Infoworld gives a thumbs up to Zenprise 1.0.3

Infoworld just reviewed Exchange monitoring & management tools. The following tools were reviewed: 1. Dys Analytics Email Control 5.0.22. Microsoft Exchange 2003 Management Pack for MOM3. Quest Spotlight on Exchange4. Zenprise 1.03 Zenprise 1.0.3 came out with flying colors. Zenprise doesn’t compete with monitoring & managmenet products like MOM and Quest SOE (in fact, it’s […]

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HOW TO: Reconnect a mailbox to another user

“How do I reconnect a mailbox to another user?” is a question I’ve come across enough number of times that it makes sense to list the steps here and include a video demo. Scenario: UserA has a mailbox. User leaves the organization. UserB joins. You need to create a new user account for UserB, and […]

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IMF Confusion – Store threshold rating text in UI

A major source of confusion regarding the Store threshold value used by Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) is the IMF UI itself. This is documented in Intelligent Message Filter release notes. Figure 1: The text for the Store SCL incorrectly states that messages with SCL greater than or equal to the Store threshold will be moved […]

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SCRIPT: Get Store GUIDs

Background: Exchange Server 2003 SP2 allows raising the Store size limit. If you’re using Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition, the default is raised from 16 Gb to 18 Gb, and the maximum size of a Store has been raised to 75 Gb. To raise the Store size limit, you need to insert the Database Size […]

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Five and a half ways to find an email address in Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory

Every once in a while you try to assign a particular address to a recipient in Active Directory Users & Computers, only to be told someone already has that address! Email addresses need to be unique — two recipients can’t have the same email address. Here are a few different ways to find out whether […]

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