Exchange-Genie

If you have been an administrator of an Exchange Server for a number of years you know there has been a few pain points related to OWA logon and expiring passwords.  I have managed system that we sent out regular system messages to the user before their password expired to remind them to change their [...]

All, I am sorry I have not written many posts lately, what you may not know is that I just had my first child a few weeks ago and have been living the new baby life.  The good news is I now have a little assistant that I have already begun his training to assist with [...]

Yesterday Microsoft made an annoucement about a number of features that are being released with Exchange 2010 Sp1 which can be found here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/07/454533.aspx. One feature that a number of people have been asking for is the ability to add a personal archive to Outlook 2007, Microsoft has heard from the masses and will be [...]

Microsoft has provided a nice easy command to show you how large your current databases are,  this one line command can be pipped to a file or used in a report Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | fl name,databasesizes Name         : DB001 DatabaseSize : 141.8 GB (152,220,270,592 bytes)  Name         : DB002 DatabaseSize : 98.17 GB (105,412,362,240 bytes)

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have been Beta testing Exchange 2007 SP2 for many months now along with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft has released the final product as of today. If you plan on deploying Exchange 2010 into your Exchange 2007 envrionment SP2 will be a requirement. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a Whats new: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/11/451281.aspx http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx

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