Administration

Creating a Dynamic Distribution Group for all mailboxes on a Database

I posted about this in Adventures with OPATH: some annoyances if you’re used to LDAP, shortly after Exchange Server 2007 RTMed (Yes, it has really been that long… ). Here’s a quick recipe to create a Dynamic Distribution Group to include all mailboxes on a database. $DB = (Get-MailboxDatabase “SERVER\Storage Group\Mailbox Database”).distinguishedName New-DynamicDistributionGroup MyGroup -RecipientFilter […]

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Controlling OOFs per domain and per mailbox

OOFs can be controlled per domain using Remote Domain settings. By default, setup creates the default Remote Domain for address space *. (As with Connector namespaces, * translates to all domains for which Exchange isn’t authoritative/has an Accepted Domain for, and doesn’t have an explicit Remote Domain for). Figure 1: Remote Domains allow control of […]

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Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 Performance: Perfmon counters and thresholds

Monitoring mission-critical services such as email is a necessity in most organizations. Whereas monitoring software like Microsoft System Center Operations Manager can use Exchange monitoring expertise and rules encoded in Management Packs and many third-party monitoring solutions ship with some embedded Exchange knowledge, if you’re setting up a monitoring system or creating a home-grown monitoring […]

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Released: New Whitepapers on Continuous Replication and Planning for Large Mailboxes

New whitepapers have been released today on TechNet. Whitepaper: Continuous Replication Deep Dive– written by Ross Smith IV and Scott Schnoll This whitepaper discusses the different components of Continuous Replication— used by LCR, CCR and SCR, how replication works, backups and log file truncation, what happens during scheduled and unscheduled outages, and how Continuous Replication […]

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Exchange Quick Audit: mailboxes created in last 7 days

I remember writing plenty of scripts to report on different things such as user accounts created every week/month, user accounts modified, accounts disabled, etc. for SOX compliance. Some of those scripts used to be rather long, and in hindsight— involved a lot more lines of code than an administrator should have to write. Although I […]

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Released: Transporter Suite v08.02.0053

An updated version of the Transporter Suite— a set of tools for interoperability and migration from Lotus Domino and generic POP/IMAP servers to Exchange Server 2007, has been released. Download Transporter Suite v08.02.0053 from here. Updated release notes are here. If you’re getting started on an interop or migration project, take a look at Resources […]

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Modifying Display Templates and additional attributes

Recently got a question about customizing the GAL and my previous post that talks about it: “HOW TO: Modify Display Template to make default email address appear in Address Book/GAL“. In Exchange 2010/2007, the new Details Template Editor can be found in EMC | Tools. The editor makes it much easier to modify templates and […]

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List Exchange ActiveSync users and device information in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

One of the requirements for managing mobile devices in an organization is reporting on users with a mobile device, the model or type of device, and optionally other information such as the DeviceID, the time of the last successful connection. In How to get a list of Exchange ActiveSync users we list Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) […]

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Exchange Server and UPN Suffixes for an OU

What’s a UPN? Back from the Windows NT days and NetBIOS-style NT domain names, we’ve been used to logging in using the DOMAIN\Username format. With the shift to Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server, we have the ability to use a User Principal Name, which is a login that looks like (and can be generally […]

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Starting Task Manager in RDP or VM sessions

You have a RDP (Terminal Services) session or a Virtual Machine session open, where the CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination fires up the Windows Logn/Security dialog on the host computer rather than the RDP or VM session you have open. Getting to the Task Manager involves some mouse-clicks in such situations— Start -> Windows Security -> Task […]

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