Exchange 2007

Enabling POP3 in Exchange Server 2007

As Terry Myerson posted on the Exchange team blog not too long ago (read previous post titled ” Exchange Server 2007 SP1: A bag of goodies!“), the Exchange Management Console will get POP and IMAP management – amongst other features – in Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Till then, the shell is the only option to […]

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HOW TO: Remove values from multi-valued properties using Exchange shell

Related to the previous posts “HOW TO: Add additional email addresses to a recipient” and “HOW TO Update multi-valued attributes in PowerShell” – removing one or more values from a multi-valued property is equally easy (though not a one-liner… ). The following example shows you how to remove a domain from the list of BypassedSenderDomains […]

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Add additional email addresses to a mailbox

In Exchange 2010/2007, you can use Email Address Policies to generate email addresses for your recipients (mailbox users, mail users, distribuiton groups, public folders, etc.). In Exchange 2003/2000, this was done by Recipient Policies. Policies are a great way to assign standardized email addresses across your organization – for example: <firstinitial><lastname>@<domain>. Users frequently request additional […]

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HOW TO: Assign SendAs right using Exchange shell

In Exchange Server 2007 (and Exchange 2010), recipients are managed from the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (aka the Shell). EMC does not have a Security tab for recipients. You can still use Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console to modify permissions on a recipient, as the documentation suggests [“How to […]

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Longhorn Server

Update to the previous post titled “Exchange Server 2007 SP1: A bag of goodies!“, which referenced Exchange product group GM Terry Myerson’s blog post on the Exchange team blog. Terry’s post stated:“On Longhorn Server, we will support Exchange 2007 on native IPv6 networks.” In a follow-up email conversation today, Terry confirmed Exchange Server 2007 SP1 […]

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1: A bag of goodies!

It’s public now – a bag of goodies awaits Exchange folks come Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Terry Myerson, Exchange Server product group GM, just posted on the team blog about some exciting new stuff we’ll get to see in SP1. If you’re in love with the idea of Local Continuous Replication (LCR) for stand-alone/non-clustered servers, […]

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OPATH: Filterable properties that can be used in Recipient Filters

Exchange 2007 uses OPATH filters to filter recipients for things like Email Address Policies and Query-based Distribution Groups. Earlier I’d written about my adventures and annoyances with Exchange’s OPATH filters and the recently added support for memberOf attribute in OPATH filters. Exchange 2007 and later use OPATH filters for filtering recipients in Address Books/GAL, Email […]

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HOW TO Update multi-valued attributes in PowerShell

Multivalued attributes are simply attributes that can have more than one value. Examples include members attribute of groups, or proxyAddresses attribute of recipients. In GUI interfaces, it is simple to add/modify multivalued attributes. VBScript has control codes that allow you to control the interaction with multi-valued attributes – 1 = clear all entries, 2 = […]

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memberOf Attribute can now be used in OPATH filters!

I’ve blogged about OPATH filters before [read previous post “Adventures with OPATH: some annoyances if you’re used to LDAP“], and one of the annoyances was the the fact that it wasn’t possible to use the memberOf attribute to pick up (or exclude) members of certain groups from all the stuff that uses OPATH filters such […]

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Empower Your PowerShell with PowerGadgets

Exchange MVP Andy Webb showed off this great tool called PowerGadgets recently that can help you build cool gadgets – with or without Windows Vista. The gadgets take piped output from PowerShell commandlets and scripts (as well as SQL databases and web services). Why I think this is so cool:– it allows you to visualize […]

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