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I ran into something really interesting today that took some time to figure out.. Thought I should post in case anyone else is puzzled by the same scenario (and so that I can remember later).
I was running queries for group memberships and found inconsistencies between what I was seeing in ADUC and what my queries [...]

 
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Exchange logs quite a bit of info about ActiveSync device partnerships and you can use this to create reports about the utilization of mobility features in your organization. Getting this data requires a couple of intermediate steps before you can export it to a CSV for processing in something like Excel (or another script). The [...]

How to set the Default Calendar permissions for all users in Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007
Configuring appropriate default calendar permissions globally in an Exchange environment can be accomplished for Exchange 2000, 2003 or 2007 with a handy tool called PFDAVadmin found here:
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Recently our security team asked me if we could delete the rules (server- and client-side) on a mailbox when a user account is disable.  After some research, I found the following utilities, but my conclusion is that there is no easy way of removing rules when a users is disabled.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I went out on Black Friday and picked up an Acer Aspire One netbook for $195. Most of the netbooks I had seen run $300+, so I think this was a pretty good deal. It came with Windows XP installed, so I decided I would install Windows 7. The problem is [...]

At my company we are using Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) for local, highly-available Exchange 2007 mailboxes. Then we use Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) to replicate our mailbox databases and logs to another server in a secondary site to provide Disaster Recovery and site-resiliency.

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This past Monday Ross Smith from Microsoft Exchange Team, posted the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator during one of his sessions at the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas.  This tool is the equivalent of the Exchange 2007 Storage Calculator.  It’s actually a giant Excel spreadsheet.  It’s a useful tool to assist in [...]

If there is one thing I learned early in my career, it is “metrics can show you anything you want them to show”. One metric companies often use to measure the availability or uptime of their systems is “number of 9s”. Computer system uptime is often measured by the percentage of uptime/availability in a year. [...]