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The following sections offer a different method to find the mailboxes that are homed on a mailbox store. When you have determined that a particular account owns a mailbox on a particular store, you can either move the mailbox or disable the account.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279202

http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/01/17/417611.aspx

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/01/19/417737.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/01/23/417974.aspx

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/10/30/447339.aspx

First, locate ExMerge.exe on your server.  With it you should find the ExMerge.ini file.  Make a copy of the file in case you want to revert settings back.

The ExMerge.ini file is typically marked as read-only.  Make it writeable.  Open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad is fine).  Search for LoggingLevel.  It is set to zero by default.  Change its value to 3 (maximum).  Save the file.  Mark it as read-only again (I’ll explain later).

Launch ExMerge.  The wizard will launch – click NEXT.

The next window selects the type of procedure you want – it is rare that you’ll ever want to perform the one-step process, if for no other reason than to have PST files left over at the end.  Select two-step procedure and click NEXT

The next window indicates which of the two steps to run.  Select Step 1 – Extract data and click NEXT

Enter the mailbox server.  If the INI file wasn’t changed, you don’t have to change any of the options.  Just to be sure, and to give you an idea what tasks you can perform with ExMerge, do the following:

Click the Options button
On the Data tab, default is to have “User messages and folders” checked and none of the others
On the Import Procedure tab, default is to have “Merge data” checked
On the Folders tab, default is to have both lists empty
On the Dates tab, default is “All”
On the Message Details tab, default is to have all fields blank
Click OK
Click NEXT

If you have more than one mailbox store on the server, you’ll see a list of available databases.  Check the databases you wish to search, then click NEXT

You’ll get a list of mailboxes in the database(s) you selected.  You can use shift-click and ctrl-click to make selections if you need.  Click NEXT

Select the appropriate Default locale (you normally don’t have to select this unless you are multi-language corporation and need to ensure the language particulars are maintained) – click NEXT

Indicate the location of the export file, click NEXT

The next window is why I had you mark the INI file read-only.  There will be times you want to save the configuration you just made.  Save it in a different file name.  Marking it read-only will prevent you from overwriting your default settings.  Save it if you want, when you click NEXT, the mailbox(es) will start processing.

When done, click FINISH.

Look for the file EXMERGE.LOG.  That is the log file.  The utility always appends data to the end, so running ExMerge the next time won’t overwrite previous logs.

Many a times we are faced with the task of getting all the members in a distribution group, especially in a large group. It is very easy with Powershell. Run the following command,

Get-DistributionGroupMember –identity “group name”

In order to select the properties we need, pipe the command to format-table with the necessary values.

Get-DistributionGroupMember –identity “group name” | ft name, primarysmtpaddress

As usual, we can export the output to a txt or csv file.

Get-DistributionGroupMember –identity “group name” | ft name, primarysmtpaddress | Export-CSV c:\members.csv

http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/10/get-members-of-exchange-2007.html

Here is an interesting find I just made:

NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g. FISMA). http://nvd.nist.gov/

Perform a Search for Software Flaws: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search

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 

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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.

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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 that most netbooks don’t have CD-/DVD-ROMs; therefore I would need to image it using a USB flash drive. This article describes the steps I took to upgrade my Aspire One, but I suppose it would work on most systems.

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