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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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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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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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While you were out: Scheduling meetings and OOFs

Although it’s been an accepted (and expected) practice to setup OOF auto-responses while you are out of office, I haven’t been a big fan of OOFs in the past. My reasons: 1. I often forget to turn off OOFs once I’m back in the office, or forget to set these up in the first place— […]

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How to forward mail to an external email address

In Exchange Server 2003, mail for a recipient can be forwarded to an alternate recipient by modifying the recipient’s Delivery Options in ADUC | recipient -> properties | Exchange General tab. Figure 1: Use Delivery Options to auto forward email to an alternate recipient in Exchange 2003 If you need to forward mail to an […]

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DST 2007: December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems

The last time we took a look at the timezone changes was when the August 2007 cumulative time zone update was released (Read previous post: “DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems“). The August 2007 update included new timezone data for Caucasus Standard Time, Armenian Standard Time, New Zealand Standard Time, […]

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List mailboxes with Full Mailbox Access permission assigned

In “HOW TO: Grant Full Mailbox Access permission“, we saw how to assign and view mailbox permissions, including Full Access. Here’s how you can get a list of mailboxes with explicitly-assigned (i.e. not inherited) Full Access permissions. You can specify a single mailbox and retrieve the permissions assigned on it by using the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet. […]

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Recipient Policies: Can separate policies for Email Addresses and Mailbox Manager Settings be applied?

Exchange Server 2003/2000’s Recipient Policies can have settings to generate email addresses for recipients, and Mailbox Manager settings to manage mailbox content. (The Exchange Server 2007 equivalents are 1. Accepted Domains + Email Address Policies to generate email addresses, and 2. Managed Folder Mailbox Policies (with default or custom Managed Folders + Managed Content Settings) […]

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Disabled mailboxes: Can they really receive email?

Some truths you live with for a lifetime, like Outlook users cannot send email using an alternate email address (with Outlook in MAPI mode – read previous post: “HOW TO: Send as alternate email address“). Others change as Microsoft Exchange evolves, either through new versions of Exchange server, or service packs and hotfixes. Disabled mailboxes […]

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Bulk mailbox creation revisited: Adding Active Directory attributes

The instructions in Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell allow you to quickly create mailboxes in bulk using the New-Mailbox command. Continuing from where we left off in that post, another scenario is being able to add Active Directory attributes to the new user object created by New-Mailbox. Note, the […]

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