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A good PowerShell resource.

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Posted by Dave on 05 May 10 - 0 Comments

 
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Reporting on ActiveSync

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Posted by Dave on 26 Feb 10 - 0 Comments

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

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Posted by Dave on 11 Jan 10 - 0 Comments

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:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424&displaylang=en 
 

Deleting rules for a disabled user account.

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Posted by Dave on 06 Jan 10 - 0 Comments

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.

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.

E2K7: SOAP APIs

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Posted by Dave on 12 Nov 09 - 0 Comments

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb408417.aspx

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 [...]

E2K7: How to Change the Recipient Scope

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Posted by Dave on 25 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

When managing Exchange 2007, the recipient scope for Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and Exchange Management Console (EMC) defaults to the domain where the Exchange servers are located. Recipient scope refers to the specified portion of the Active Directory directory service hierarchy that the Exchange Management Console and the Exchange Management Shell uses for recipient management. When [...]

E2K7: Determining Status of Database Backups

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Posted by Dave on 27 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

While running some reports on Exchange backup success I could not figure out why when I ran get-mailboxdatabase | fl Name,LastFullBackup it would return a blank LastFull Backup.  In Exchange Management console I could look at the properties of the database and see the Last full backup and the Last incrementation backup times.

 
After some search, [...]

E2K7: Mail Routing Fails Over Cisco PIX Firewall

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Posted by Dave on 25 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

 

 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277550.aspx