Administration
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…
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Exchange Server
Active Directory
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…
Active Directory
SCRIPT: List Distribution Groups
I was able to modify this script I wrote a while back for general use. What it does: Lists mail-enabled groups in a domain including…
Administration
Troubleshooting IMF: Important performance counter
Earlier today I saw some strange behavior with Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) v2. Incoming internet mail wasn’t getting scanned by IMF. Outlook did not show…
Administration
SCRIPT: Reset Mailbox Limits
I had posted a script that reports all users with their mailbox storage limits set individually on the user account properties in my earlier post…
Administration
Troubleshooting email problems costs companies over $1 million annually
Osterman Research recently conducted a study, sponsored by Zenprise, Inc. (my employer), that will be of interest to CIOs and messaging groups in corporate IT…
Active Directory
Query-based Distribution Groups and Disabled Users
Another issue with Query-based Distribution Groups – when admins create these, typically using a GUI – there’s no obivious way of excluding disabled user accounts.…
Active Directory
All Groups address list and Query-Based Distribution Groups
You create new Query-Based Distribution Groups but they don’t show up in the All Groups address list in Outlook clients – cached mode or not.…
Administration
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…
Exchange 2003
Exchange Server 2003 gets Common Criteria certified
Your favorite messaging server – Exchange Server 2003 (don’t tell me it’s NOT Exchange Server 2003 as of now… though that may change some time…