Bharat Suneja

Resource Mailbox Calendar Settings: Configuring resource mailboxes using OWA

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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Microsoft: “High Priest of Secure Software Development”

From a company most frequently bashed for the security woes of the world, Microsoft has morphed into what CNET calls the “high priest of secure software development”, which is now helping others develop secure software. The Trustworthy Computing Initiative started six years ago is paying off. More in ‘Microsoft becomes high priest of secure software […]

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Configuring Deleted Item Retention

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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Unraveled: The Mystery of the Disappearing Exchange Update Rollup 4

Did you really see Exchange 2007 Update Rollup 4 appear and then quickly disappear earlier this week? Scott Roberts explains in ‘The case of disappearing Rollup Update 4‘ on the team blog.

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SCRIPT: Get Storage Group Backup Status

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

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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HOW TO: Prevent annoying spam from your own domain

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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Quarantine Mailbox: Displaying original SCL, sender and recipients

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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Announced: Virtualization support for Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported on Hyper-V and other (read “Non-Microsoft”) hypervisors validated under the Microsoft Server Vitualization Validation Program. Vendors participating in the program: Citrix, Cisco Systems, Novell, Sun Micrososystems, and Virtual Iron Software. The new support policy for Exchange in virtualized environments: Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware […]

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Exchange System Manager and Outlook on the same computer?

With the release of Exchange System Manager (ESM) for Windows Vista yesterday (Released: Exchange System Manager for Windows Vista), there’s been concern about the fact that ESM is not supported on the same computer as Microsoft Outlook. However, the coexistence of the two has not been a supported scenario for long. From KB 266418: Microsoft […]

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