Administration

Bulk mailbox-enabling users using Exchange Shell in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

In Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell, I wrote about how to bulk create mailboxes (including user accounts) from a CSV/text file. This post is in response to readers who asked for a way to mailbox-enable existing user accounts. Bulk mailbox-enabling users using the EMC The EMC allows you to […]

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Update – HOW TO: Find an email address in Active Directory

SKIP THIS POST and head over to Five and a half ways to find an email address in Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory, a comprehensive post that shows all the ways you can find an email address in Active Directory.  (OK, if you must really know, we merged content from this post with a previous […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell

Bulk creation of mailboxes (and the accompanying user accounts) in Exchange Server 2003/2000 involved some elaborate scripting effort. This task can now be done fairly effortlessly, thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The Shell can very easily import/use CSV files saved from a spreadsheet or text editor and create the mailbox-enabled users. Here’s how. […]

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Logging SMTP protocol activity

Like many of my posts, this one also starts with “By default,… “. Like many folks, I’m always curious about the defaults used for almost everything in Exchange/SMTP (and IIS, Windows, AD et al), and at times intrigued by the choices made. One of my pet peeves has been about how installing Exchange changes the […]

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Install anti-spam agents on Hub Transport server

If you’re using Exchange Server 2007 in a topology with an Edge Transport server, the anti-spam agents – Connection Filtering, Content Filter Hub Transport node in the EMC. After the antispam agents are installed, you can see the Anti-spam tab in Organization Configuration | Hub Transport node in EMC. If your console was open during […]

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Address Literals and Microsoft Exchange

RFC 2821 specifies how address literals can be used to reach recipients – particularly useful when DNS resolution doesn’t work for a particular domain or host. This is a literal form of the address which can be used as an alternative to the domain name. For IPv4 addresses, the address literal format is localpart@[1.2.3.4] – […]

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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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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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New user does not show up in GAL

Scenario: You’ve created a new user (or any Exchange recipient that should show up in Exchange Address Books/GAL), but the recipient does not show up in the GAL in Outlook. Are you using Outlook 2003/2007 in Cached Mode? If yes, login using Outlook Web Access and try to send the user an email. Does the […]

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List users with automatic email forwarding enabled

Here’s a script written in response to a newsgroup post today on microsoft.public.exchange.admin. Exchange Server allows you to automatically forward inbound mail for one recipient to another recipient. You can forward messages to the alternate recipient, without delivering a copy to the original recipient (effectively redirecting inbound mail for the recipient), or deliver messages to […]

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