Exchange-Genie

Let me start out with this is not a supported item by Microsoft however is vary functional! Today in Exchange 2010 when a user logs onto OWA and selects the options button they are taken into what is now called the Exchange Control Panel or ECP which has added some functionality for users.  One problem [...]

Today Mircosoft released its first rollup (RU1)  for Exchange 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=371add31-d7a0-4c8b-8325-a6fced2d05e6&displaylang=en  One of the biggest advantages to RU1 is allowing functionality with RIMs BES servers, however RIM is suppose to release an MR1 soon for Exchange 2010 intergration that will be required on the BES servers Changes http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=976573   RIM information to configure Exchange 2010 and BES [...]

I just tossed togethor a quick little script that will easily display the database names and user count per database   //this scripts gets all the database names and counts the number of users per database  $dblist=Get-MailboxDatabase ($dblist | %{write-host $_.name (get-mailbox -database $_.name).count})

Today Oct. 8th the best versions of Microsoft Exchange has been offically released! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability We are happy to announce that Exchange 2010 is Code Complete!  Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to our early [...]

Updated 8/18/2010 One of the major changes with Exchange 2010 is related to the mapi end point. In all previous versions of Exchange the Outlook client (using mapi) would connect directly to an Exchange mailbox server, with Exchange 2010 the Outlook client will connect to an Exchange server running the CAS role as its mapi [...]

As with most people I am primarily an Outlook based user and only use  OWA for  quick access to my mailbox. Today one of the guys I work with was trying to send a 6mb attachment from OWA but kept getting the following error. My coworkers first reaction was  hey, why are the sending limits [...]

Per the following article http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/10/iphone-os-3-1-now-enforces-exchange-encryption-policy-may-block/ users that have an Iphone that is not a 3GS may not be able to sync when connected to Exchange 2007 SP1+ system due to the encryption policy.

In my last article I briefly touched on the fact that everything in Exchange 2010 is now controlled by EMS and RBAC and can be controled by creating custom roles and assigning them to users.  In this article I am going to go over the default view a user will see in ECP without any [...]

Today Microsoft has released an RC build of Exchange 2010 build 639.11, if you have used the earlier Beta there are a large number of changes to the product since the Feb Beta release. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/08/17/451974.aspx

As we work our way through the OWA web UI the next  stop will be the calendar. There hasnt been a large number of changes to this feature so you might ask why I decided to write an article about it? One of the major product enhancements is the ability to share ones calendar from [...]