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Released: Exchange Management Shell | Powershell on Steroids

The first of the three free web chapters of “Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference” was released last week on the book’s companion web site. I also found out about the numerous electronic editions of the book— yes, the Acrobat eBook, MobiPocket Reader, Microsoft Reader and Kindle editions are now available! Thanks to all of […]

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Quick antispam report or status check?

Having received an annoyingly higher proportion of spam in my Inbox this morning, I wanted to quickly check what the antispam agents are doing. Here’s a quick cmdlet (besides the ones to check whether the antispam agents are enabled, checking the Content Filter SCL thresholds, etc.). Get-AgentLog -StartDate “6/16/2008” | group action | ft name,count […]

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What is an Azalia controller?

Last night I got my Media Center PC back from repairs with a brand new motherboard, new hard drives, and a new TV tuner. Yes, that’s almost like a new computer— one of those rare occasions when I’ve bought extended warranty for a computer and actually found it worthwhile. After installing Windows Vista I tried […]

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Updated: Mailbox Server Role Storage Calculator v14.7

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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Announced: Plug-in for Exchange backups on Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008’s new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn’t do Exchange backups out of the box. I’m in Scott Schnoll’s session where he just announced a new Microsoft plug-in that will do Exchange VSS backups. The tool will be released this summer. More notes from this excellent session soon!

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Book Signing at TechEd: Exchange Server 2007 The Complete Reference

Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference started shipping recently. (OK, it’s been a few weeks, so I’m stretching the definition of the word “recently” to cover up for the fact that I didn’t post about this sooner…) As Exchange MVP and coauthor Richard Luckett puts it, “Writing a book, sustaining a career, and spending precious […]

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TechEd IT Pro: A major Exchange announcement in Scott’s session?

Scott Schnoll is presenting two sessions at TechEd this week:1. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1: Tips & Tricks:When: Wednesday, June 11 2:45 PM – 4:00 PMWhere: N220 D What: This session provides an overview of how to gather diagnostic and troubleshooting information for Exchange Server 2007 focused on performance, connectivity, and services, as well as […]

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Exchangepedia: A search hack

Playing with custom error pages early this a.m., and here’s a way to search Exchangepedia. Go to the search page – http://exchangepedia.com/search.aspx, ignore the “this page couldn’t be found” error, and use the search. Note: Sorry, it doesn’t seem to work as a link. You will need to type the URL manually: exchangepedia.com/search.aspx Yes, not […]

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Perfmon counters show up as numbers?

You’re troubleshooting an important issue and fire up Performance Monitor, only to be greeted by this bizarre visual— all your Perfmon counters show up as numbers! You restart Perfmon a few times, try to choose a different performance object – but it’s still numbers. Figure 1: Performance Monitor counters and objects are displayed as numbers […]

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Released: MAPI Client and CDO 1.2.1 for Exchange 2007

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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