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 titled “SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits“. I have just added another script to that post that will reset those mailboxes (with storage limits set individually). Once the script resets storage limits […]

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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. Even if you enter the ldap filter manually using Custom Search, it’s easy to forget about excluding disabled users. End result: users sending mail to QBDGs complain about getting NDRs […]

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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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Move Exchange to a new server

So you’re ready to upgrade your Exchange server. You bought a shiny new box with the latest & greatest CPU, loaded it with as much RAM as you could afford, and bought the fastest, biggest drives. How do you “move” your Exchange over to a new server? Exchange MVP Ed Crowley has this well-documented on […]

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HOW TO: Export all email addresses from a domain

Background: The Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address for objects. You can export the list from ADUC to a CSV/txt file. However, any additional email addresses in the proxyAddresses attribute are not exported. There’s no GUI interface (in […]

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How to create a Recipient Policy based on Company names?

One of the more frequently asked questions in an environment where you want to host more than 1 company’s email on a single Exchange server. Both companies have unique dns domains, let’s say CompanyA.com and CompanyB.com. You typically end up locating thw users from the 2 (or more) companies in their own respective OUs. You […]

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SID error on cloned Virtual Server / VPC / VMWare OSes

If you simply copy an existing Windows OS image to create multiple virtual servers/workstations, and try to log on to a domain controller, you may get the following error: The system or security ID (SID) of the domain specified is inconsistent with the trust information for that domain. This happens because the SID of the […]

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Adding disclaimers to outbound SMTP messages

Disclaimers are increasingly becoming commonplace in email messages sent to external (and at times internal) recipients. Security policies at many organizations require these disclaimers. If you’ve been looking for this feature in Exchange System Manager, it’s not there yet! You need to use a SMTP Event Sink to get this done. Microsoft has couple of […]

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Getting Dell Service Tag using WMI

Need to maintain an accurate inventory of servers in datacenter. Dell servers have a Service Tag that is required when calling Dell support, and it makes sense to include this in the server list. Here’s how to retrieve the Service Tag from the system BIOS. This uses WMI, and therefore works only on Windows servers. […]

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HOW TO: View the Security tab in Exchange Admin tool

Every time I get asked this, I remember the name of the key – ShowSecurityPage – but forget the complete path. It’s easier to simply keep the registry hack in a .REG file, so here it is. Right-click on the link, save, remove the .txt from the filename. ShowSecurityPage.reg If you’d rather do it manually, […]

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