PowerShell

And Monad is now Windows PowerShell…

Close on the heels of Exchange Server “12” getting its official product name – Exchange Server 2007, the cool new shell environment so far known as Monad got its official name. Yes, Monad (aka “MSH”) is now called Windows PowerShell. No comments on this renaming – I neither love nor hate it. On the brighter […]

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Five and a half ways to find an email address in Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory

Every once in a while you try to assign a particular address to a recipient in Active Directory Users & Computers, only to be told someone already has that address! Email addresses need to be unique — two recipients can’t have the same email address. Here are a few different ways to find out whether […]

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New user does not show up in GAL

Scenario: You’ve created a new user (or any Exchange recipient that should show up in Exchange Address Books/GAL), but the recipient does not show up in the GAL in Outlook. Are you using Outlook 2003/2007 in Cached Mode? If yes, login using Outlook Web Access and try to send the user an email. Does the […]

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