There are so many articles that I need to write for myself, but with my workload it becomes difficult.  I’ve resigned myself to posting links to other people articles.  Maybe some day I’ll get back to these. 

This article discusses Mailbox cache limits in Exchange.  If you ever find yourself in a situation where someone like an executive hits their mailbox storage limit and you need to change their limit very fast you might find that it is not an instantaneous change.

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As you know Exchange Management Shell is an extension of Windows PowerShell (PS). Today I found a really useful PS command to generate HTML reports that include data generated through Exchange Management Shell commands. In an effort to create a “Dashboard” for our Exchange environment, I’ve been trying to find a way to gather information in Exchange Shell and publish that data into an HTML report. The ConvertTo-HTML command will do exactly that.

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These are some notes I took at TechEd a couple of years ago.

7 Steps to Secure Environment:

  • Establish a Security Team
  • Security Assessment – What impacts our bottom line? What is normal?
  • Risk Analysis – For the Assets
  • Write a Security Policy. Enforce it.
  • Design Operations Plans and Security Standards
  • Implement Training and Awareness Measures
  • Perform Ongoing Security Management

10 Immutable Laws of Security Patch Management

  • 1: Security patches are a fact of life
  • 2: It does no good to patch a system that was never secure to begin with
  • 3: There is no patch for bad judgment
  • 4: You cannot patch what you do not know you have
  • 5: The most effective patch is the one you do not have to apply
  • 6: A service pack covers a multitude of patches
  • 7: All patches are not created equal
  • 8: Never base your patching decision on whether you have seen an exploit code … Unless you have seen an exploit code
  • 9: Everyone has a patch management strategy, whether they know it or not
  • 10: Patch management is really Risk Management

These are copied from the ArchivingCDRReporter read me…
The following are some user specific SQL query samples that are intended to guide you through extracting relevant reporting user or time range specific information from the Archiving/CDR Database. The general usage queries are already added as part of the tool.

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