A Collection of Random Thoughts
Tips, tricks, thoughts relating mostly to Microsoft Exchange server, but occasionally other things as well.
Dude - why isn't a mailbox being provisioned/created in Exchange Online after licensing?
I've run into this scenario several times, and I wanted to share a common cause for this situation...
Date: 09/18/2018
Workload Management in Exchange 2013
Workload Management (WLM) is a great new feature that was introduced with Exchange 2013 (well, ok to...
Date: 01/30/2015
The Mystery of Calendar Permissions explained…
We get to experience a wide variety of issues here in Microsoft support, and some of them can get...
Date: 01/21/2015
Recent experience with Exchange 2007 and Cross-Forest account management
I wanted to share some lessons learned recently as a result of working a case where the goal was to...
Date: 11/02/2010
Exchange 2007 and Export-Mailbox with the –IncludeFolders switch
You may have noticed that when you when you run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet, one of the switches...
Date: 07/26/2010
Exchange 2010 DAG and MaxQuorumLogSize cluster setting
I wanted to get this information out here, as we’ve had a few customers run into this. The...
Date: 06/15/2010
Delegates not receiving meeting requests on Exchange 2007
I’ve run into this a few times now, and wanted to share more details on this issue. The...
Date: 07/28/2009
Exchange 2007 Sp1 Cluster Install/Recovery Issues
One of the problems that I’ve seen customers encounter several times now when creating a new...
Date: 02/19/2009
Disabling LDAP Encryption and Signing for Netmon on an Exchange server
It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been super busy. I wanted to post something...
Date: 12/15/2008
Move Mailbox from a CSV Import file
A while back, I had promised to write another post detailing how to use Import-CSV and then run...
Date: 06/02/2008
MOM Exchange Management Pack alerts
Part of my job involves supporting the Exchange Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager...
Date: 03/31/2008
Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster Changes
Single Copy Clusters are the continuation of how clustering was implemented with previous versions...
Date: 03/28/2008
Exchange 2007 SP1 Setup Domain Controller Requirements
OK. I've heard lots of complaints about Exchange 2007 and the fact that when you run setup, the...
Date: 12/03/2007
Exchange 2007 Advanced Move Mailbox Powershell commands
By now, you should be familiar with the day to day Powershell commands, so here is one that uses the...
Date: 08/28/2007
Exchange 2007 Cluster Setup - Did it complete?
As you no doubt know by now, Exchange 2007 introduces different types of clustering. It still...
Date: 08/06/2007
No more anonymous comments
Sorry folks. I'm starting to see some spam comments with nasty stuff in them. As of now, if you want...
Date: 08/02/2007
Will It Blend? Presented By Blendtec
These guys are hilarious! I first caught on to them when they blended an iPhone (LOL!). Of course...
Date: 07/26/2007
how to save your Exchange 2007 Powershell session transcript
Have you noticed that there are a lot more things that you need to do (or can do) via the Command...
Date: 07/24/2007
Exchange 2003 and disabled user accounts
As some of you may be aware, the behavior when dealing with disabled user accounts has changed....
Date: 07/09/2007
Add-ExchangeAdministrator and setting the scope to multiple servers with powershell
So you want to add a new Exchange administrator and set the scope to multiple servers, but the...
Date: 05/23/2007
Exchange 2003, ISA and attachment size
I've seen a few of these reports recently and worked on one personally, so I thought I would mention...
Date: 05/03/2007
Exchange 2007 and Recipient Type Details
Now that you have been working with Exchange 2007 for a while, you may notice that in the Exchange...
Date: 04/05/2007
Hi I'm an iPhone. And I'm a Smartphone
After enduring the many smart-alecky TV commercials that Apple has produced (some are funny, I...
Date: 02/27/2007
Potential issues with DST patching
In working with the series of Daylight Saving Time patches that have been released, I wanted to...
Date: 02/16/2007
A Mac user switches to Vista - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
This was an interesting and good read. A reporter, who uses a Mac to do his work, switched to using...
Date: 01/30/2007
24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007
Paul Flaherty blogs some GREAT information on a series of Webcasts for Exchange 2007. As he...
Date: 01/23/2007
How to temporarily break public folder access via OWA in Exchange 2000/2003
This was something that I just found out about a few weeks ago, so I thought I'd pass it along. You...
Date: 01/18/2007
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
My family and I spent Christmas in Cedar City, Utah visiting with my wife's family. During that...
Date: 01/02/2007
Southwest does a good job
Last week on Wednesday, I flew out of Las Vegas destined for Dallas. We had just spent a lovely...
Date: 01/02/2007
Enabling Message Tracking for non-administrator accounts
If you work for a large organization, odds are that you may have people that you want to grant...
Date: 12/08/2006
Exchange 2003 Unattended Installs
If you have ever played around with doing unattended installs of Exchange, you will know that there...
Date: 12/08/2006
Incorrect information on MTA Stacks service
I had previously posted about the MTA Stacks service being required in order to configure RBL...
Date: 11/27/2006
Bulk-editing resource mailboxes with Powershell
This post is the result of an internal question specifically relating to bulk-editing resource...
Date: 11/02/2006
Followup to configuring mailboxes via Powershell
I mentioned at the end of the post about configuring a resource mailbox via Powershell that I...
Date: 10/25/2006
Configuring Resource Mailboxes via MSH/Powershell
I'd previously blogged here about Resource booking in Exchange 2007 and talked about configuring...
Date: 10/24/2006
DSAccess issues
If you run Exchange, no doubt you know how important Active Directory is. However, you may not be as...
Date: 10/19/2006