Administration

Start Managed Folder Assistant for a single mailbox

When testing Managed Folder Mailbox Policy settings in Exchange Server 2007, you may need to frequently run the Managed Folder Assistant (MFA)) to process a mailbox on-demand, so you can check the mailbox content and MRM logs. However, every time you run Start-ManagedFolderAssistant, the MFA processes all mailboxes on all Mailbox Databases on the server. […]

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Update Rollup 4: The Right Thing To Do

Now that Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 4 has shipped, it’s time to revisit recent events preceding it. A few days before yesterday’s release, a pre-release version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 made its way to Microsoft Update. Customers who had the Automatic Updates feature of Windows Server OS configured to […]

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Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP1

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. Fixes for the following issues are included (details in KB 952580): 942649 Description of the commands that support the UseRusServer option that is imported in Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 944831 You cannot configure Exchange Server […]

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Disable Antispam agents on a Receive Connector

Exchange 2007’s antispam agents are enabled for all Receive Connectors on a transport server. Is there a way to disable the agents on a particular Receive Connector? Although not as simple as turning an agent off for each IP address or Receive Connector, Exchange 2007’s new transport permissions model allows you to do this just […]

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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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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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