Exchange-Genie

Exchange 2010 RU2 was released today and can be downloaded from the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d3ae3e0-3982-46d6-9e9c-7d7d63fae565&displaylang=en
The link below is a list of fixes included in Ru2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=979611

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)

Thanks to my friend Ilse who has outlined the steps on how to upload a picture for consumption in the gal
http://blogs.technet.com/ilvancri/archive/2009/11/17/upload-picture-in-outlook-2010-using-the-exchange-management-shell-exchange-2010.aspx

I wanted to leave this post open and make is more of a user poll. 
Please leave a post about an item or configuration you think is difficult to manage with Exchange server or if you had one wish what would you add to the product?

I just wanted to drop a little note and wish everyone a Happy and Safe New Year!

Instead of reinventing the wheel I am going to use Devin blog to reference how to do this task.
http://blogs.3sharp.com/deving/archive/2007/01/08/2738.aspx
Using PowerShell to sort mailboxes by size
This weekend I was playing with the Exchange Management Shell while performing some troubleshooting on our Exchange 2007 system and discovered some fun combinations of cmdlets I thought I’d share.
First, [...]

Since I am on the east cost and we are getting a nice little snow storm I thought it woudl be fitting to add the snow theme to the site

For those that use LCS or OCS in you environments, I wanted to make you aware of a potential issue with one of Microsofts  latest security updates that could cause an outage by showing LCS or OCS running as an evaluation version and then noting it as expired.
 The hotfix (MS09-056) is detailed @ http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-056.mspx
 Please refer to the [...]

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

User Message Delivery

Quite often users send emails and do not know what happens after they click the send button, did the message queue on the server, and was the message delivered.

Exchange 2010 has provided users the ability to view delivery reports and track what has happened to their messages.

Once you have logged onto the web [...]