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So been automating some global configuration in Exchange 2007 today and wanted to share this.  I need to enable web distribution of the oab and couldn't find the Powershell ''check box''.  But cracked it.  You need to just populate the VirtualDirectories entry and it ''checks'' the Enable Web-bases distribution. The cheat was ...

Interesting Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/19/449621.aspx Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports ...

If you try and access OWA 2007 you may see this error   440 Login Timeout   It would appear that this error happens if the IUSR_<Servername> and / or IWAM_<Servername> accounts are disabled on the server.   Using Computer Mangement on the server, navigate to Local Users and Groups and select the disabled acount and ...

Theses are the mutts nuts.  Good old Ross Smith IV up's the bar again. Check them out here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/07/449497.aspx and here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc533547(EXCHG.80).aspx ...The following Exchange Server installation guides can be used as a starting point for formalizing your server build ...

Rui does it again, this is a sweet article, read it and weep! Source: http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/planning-architecture/exchange-2007-sizing-cheat-sheet.html Implementing a complete Exchange 2007 solution requires not only good planning, but also a good understanding of all the technical requirements and a ...

Just found this up on the Forefront blog http://blogs.technet.com/fss/archive/2008/08/11/forefront-for-exchange-sp1-rollup-3-has-been-released.aspx   Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 has been released.  The fixes that are included with in Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 are as follows. Prior to full publication of Forefront for ...

So every day is a school day and today I learnt two thing, which means that is enough for one week ;-) So first off is BES.  If you use Exchange 2007, you MUST have public folders for BES to work?! Yeah! BlackBerry Enterprise Server obtains free/busy data from the Schedule+Free/Busy Public Folder on the Microsoft Exchange Server. When ...

Update to this script too, basically a change from using Get-ExchangeServer in places to Get-TransportServer.  Also add a size column to the message tab. It will also log data to c:\ps\logs\<datefolder> Let me know what you think ;-)  

So another script .. This is actually a one liner but this is an easy wrapper.  The one liner is: Get-TransportServer | Get-Queue

Recreation of an old script.  Basically this will run get-help for all commands and output it to c:\ps\help .. I like it ;-) ######################################################################################### $AppName = ''Dump-Help.ps1'' $AppVer  = ''v1.0 [7 August 2008]'' #v1.0 6 August 2008 : A script is Born # #This script ...

The Future of Exchange? Well this is an interesting article check it out! http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Microsoft-Exchange-Online-Beta-Performs-Well/?kc=rss Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering is easy to configure, maintain and use, but it's tied too tightly into Windows. In one of the most substantial incarnations ...

So just got this in an email and wanted to share with you: Thank you for registering for and/or attending our Microsoft Certified Master Live Meeting on July 30, 2008. You'll find a link to the session recording and a few other resources below. To those of you who had trouble logging in to the morning meeting due to the incorrect link we sent ...

Damm is that a month already :-| It's all downhill now .. only 146 days until Christmas! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in July 2008 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help [July2008] The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 ...

I Dunno if you remember this and my little picture: BUT, you have spec'ed ur server, you have enough disk, proc and memory.  Any idea on how you know when ur are running out of memory?

Sean pointed this one out to me, and I can't see I had noticed this before.  Check out in perfmon, on an Exchange 2007 Mailbox Role server: MSExchangeIS Mailbox\Messages Queued for Submission and then select _Total or a mailbox database. perfmon says "Messages Queued For Submission is the current number of submitted messages which are ...

Damm, has this script grown up recently. In a nut shell, this is the daddy of all scripts and gathers chunks of information from the Exchange Organisation and each Exchange Server by using a mixture of WMI, .Net and Exchange 2007 Powershell commands. The script can be run for just one server, by appending an server name to the command or with no ...

So I just stumbled upon this blog ... very interesting and one for adding to your favourites for when you need it.

Just discovered this blog and found a freebie ... Can't be bad.  All you need to do is provide an email address you can download the 379 pdf doc that is made up from thses books: Mastering Exchange Server 2007Chapter 2: Exchange Server ArchitectureChapter 6: Scaling Upward and Outward Exchange Server 2007 Infrastructure Design: A ...

Heard a rumour today, that RIM are taking the european datacentre down for 7 hours on Friday (25th July 2008) night! Yeah, you read right, that it they are taking EUROPE out! .. All BES devices that use the European NOC will not be working! Oh my GAWD! time to get those Windows Mobile devices out!  Couldn't find anything on Google about it ...

So Anderson posted this, and my initial thought was huh?  The KB didn't really explain either, so it was time for a test.  So the KB will allow you to remove the circled text below: And it's a nice simple PowerShell Command: Set-TransportConfig WritingBrandingInDSNEnabled $false But you do need to have Exchange 2007 SP1 with RU3

This is a handy little KB from RIM, it enables you to determine the software version of your BlackBerry Enterprise Server ;-)  Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/dynamickc.do?externalId=KB05131&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=KB05131

Not sure how I found this, but have a read.  It is not a very good comparison, as it shuold be Exchange 2007 vs Gmail or actually Windows Live vs Gmail http://lifehacker.com/398778/outlook-vs-gmail++the-definitive-comparision  

I saw this on Jason's Blog .. AstraSync is scheduled to be released in July 2008 at $49 for a one mailbox 12 month subscription. You can register your interest by filling in the form below. Once you have submitted your details our sales team will contact you to provide further information on the product and release date. Could be an interesting ...

Just in case you missed this, Brett posted yesterday. So for the Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) on HP Active Answers go here:http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/561453-0-0-0-121.html Found the Exchange link too ;-) The Microsoft Exchange Server link on HP Active Answers is ...

FYI Event Name: TechNet Webcast: High Availability in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Part 2 of 2): Disaster Recovery and SCR Deep Dive (Level 300) Event ID: 1032381322 We have rescheduled this event for the following date: Date: 08/15/2008Start Time: 09:30 AM PacificOriginally scheduled for 31st July 2008

Check it and register Source: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032380996&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Something new in Microsoft Certification: the Microsoft Certified Master program is opening its doors to highly ...

Did anyone have any issues last night with your Exchange 2007 Edge Servers rejecting all messages by marking them as SCL9?Look like it might have happened after this update?  Product: Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Block List Updates - Update 'Update to 3.3.6710.001' installed successfully. Let me know

Okay so Tuesday and a bunch of us headed to Microsoft's office in Victoria to hear from Gordon McKenna talk about Managing and Monitoring Exchange using SCOM 2007.  Here are my notes from the event ... hopefully its not to disjoined ;-) So eight of us joined Gordon who is actually a Windows Management MVP. Check out the Windows ...

Okay that was a smoother installation than I expected.  So Ari recommended using this from the command prompt Exchange2007-KB949870-x64-EN.msp /quiet /lxv* KB949870.log I Did bit found it a bit scarey that you get no feedback on what is happening so I tried /passive instead.  But what I did find was this in the Application event ...

I found this up on BlankMan's Blog and it's damm cool. ... One of the frustrating realities about OST files is that they become progressively slower as they become older. One of the factors influencing this is fragmentation.  As the Exchange Team blog says: ''We usually recommend no more than about 2500 - 5000 messages in any ...

This makes an interesting read .. Found it up on the Security Vulnerability Research & Defense Blog Today we released MS08-039 which addressed several XSS vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange’s Outlook Web Access component.  While this is an update to be applied to the Exchange server, the clients who use OWA are the computers ...

So we have a KB, Download and a Security Bulletin ;-)  NOTE: This also affects Exchange 2007, but is included in RU3 for Exchange 2007 SP1 and RU7 for Exchange 2007 RTM Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e099c1d1-5af6-4d6c-b735-9599412b3131&DisplayLang=en This update addresses the Microsoft Exchange ...

ohh .. Rollup, rollup (sorry couldn't resist!) HOT off the press! Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB949870)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63E7F26C-92A8-4264-882D-F96B348C96AB&displaylang=en Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in ...

Okay so just for everyone (and for me to blow the dust off a few brain cells .. and what I understand the issue to be) .. This is a problem introduced with Exchange 2007, and affects any BES or Outlook 2003 user that is on Exchange 2007. Essentially, a users Exchange 2007 OoO is actually stored at the top of the information for a users mailbox, ...

So at last RIM confirm they have a problem! .. Rumour control has the fix scheduled for BES 5.0 ... god knows when that will hit the streets!. So esentially you when you migrate a Blackberry user to Exchange 2007 they shouldn't set an OoO from the BES device!? Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/article/458/KB15155_f.SAL_Public.html ...

Boyz & Girlz gentle remind if your interested in spending an evening with Gordon McKenna discussing SCOM 2007 and Exchange 2007. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions. The ...

I just have to share this with you, as I was quite impressed by how quick I knocked this script up.  Basically I wanted to see how much email was queued up on my Exchange 2003 servers.  I had a feeling that a WMI object existed so I ran scriptomatic on a server a behold under root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 was Exchange_SMTPQueue. So the rest ...

This arrived in my inbox Event Name: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Storage Deep Dive (Level 300) Event ID: 1032379718 We have rescheduled this event for the following date: Date: 07/18/2008Start Time: 08:00 AM PacificEnd Time: 09:30 AM Pacific You are still registered for this event and will continue receiving ...

Just found this on the EV blog (https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=EV_team_blog&message.id=65#M65) Shame I can't get to the FTP link and give you more info.  Once I do i will be back There are also Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Symantec Compliance Accelerator 6.0  and Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Symantec Discovery ...

Thanks to Ari for this nugget ;-) The following events are visible:Event Source: Service Control ManagerEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7000Description:The Microsoft Exchange Monitoring service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.  Event ...

Damm is that a month already :-| It's all downhill now .. only 176 days until Christmas!#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in June 2008 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes (June2008)The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release ...

Sweet .. this is basically ExMap but built in to Visio 2007.  but I found it doesnt work :-|  It baiscally says that is it no a ''valid Office Add-in'' Anyone else get it working? Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0140bc6d-1c51-41f6-a473-d0e04690ee5e&DisplayLang=en Although Exchange Management are ...

Noticed some updates to this site (thanks Ari) that have happened so far in 2008. Looks what I just found too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc655656(EXCHG.80).aspx and http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/category/11153.aspx Planning for a Simple Exchange OrganizationTopic Last Modified: 2008-03-13 ...

Looks like an update over the weekend, but no details on what has been updated! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1A83E112-8677-4E03-83C3-F1B7EBFC3A4B&displaylang=en The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2007 events, collecting Exchange ...

oh, oh, oh, oh get ur web browsers at the ready ... just seen this on Henriks Blog. Start here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/default.mspx The new Microsoft Certified Master series offers advanced technical training and certifications on Microsoft technologies that go beyond any product training offered outside of Microsoft today. ...

Interesting Mr Bond .. via Scott & Rui, basically the Windows Server Backup utility that ships with Windows 2008 will support Exchange 2007 backups.  ..Although streaming backups have been deprecated for Exchange Server 2007, it is still possible (and supported) to use this kind of data protection with the NTBackup utility from Windows ...

Humm so maybe an iPhone 2.0 is going to be my new phone? Source: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/messaging_collaboration/applemicrosoft_friendly_exchange.html ... In March, Apple announced that iPhone 2.0 software would support Microsoft's ActiveSync, offering full synchronization fidelity with Exchange Server. The update is coming soon, ...

Bit late this month .. so here we go#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in May 2008 Title Release Date Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up Tool Determine error values from decimal and hexadecimal error codes in Microsoft Windows® operating systems. 5/29/2008 Swett ...

I know you already know about this, but this is for my reference, so I remember to look here in the morning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687789(TechNet.10).aspx Find here Microsoft IT's early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of Messaging solutions within our global enterprise. ...

Do you know how sometimes you write a script and the output looks lovely, but for some stupid reason a yellow warning message ruins it. Well my school day learning from today is that you can turn them off! So lets say I run this [PS] C:\PS>get-mailboxdatabase -server ...

Just stumbled across this: https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=EV_team_blog&message.id=58#M58 Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)Build Number: 7.5.3.2138Documentation link -  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304302Installation link -  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/304217 Symantec ...

The king of exchange powershell scripting .. so here is v5 of the awesome mailbox size gui script by Glen.  This time he has added mailbox growth history.  Check it out and download it! http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/version-5-of-mailbox-size-gui-script.html

ooh ooh ooh a new version update as of 29th May 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be596899-7bb8-4208-b7fc-09e02a13696c&displaylang=en&tm  

As they say, every day is a school day ... todays lesson was learnt while trawling Exchange 2003 Servers and finding a while load of .ifs file in the database folder. So a bit of googling and I discovered this!?! Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260532 Files ending in .ifs may appear in folder containing database log filesDuring the ...

I wrote this a while back, and just blew the dust off it. Meet get-PerfCounters.ps1  Basically you feed the script a csv file that has ''ServerName'' on the first line the first. The script will then loop the servers and get the following perf counters System\System Up TimeMemory\% Committed Bytes In UseMemory\Committed BytesMemory\Commit ...

Off the back of Eileen's post, I just couldn't resist a new ebook. So Exchange Management Shell: TFM is a 386 page secured! PDF document, with the last 8 being adverts for Sapien Press!.  The secured bit is a a major pain in the butt as you can't copy from the PDF doc.  So a PDF ebook, that has code snippets becomes kind like a paper ...