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Exchange 2007 SP3 Released

Exchange Genie — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:15:53 +0000

Microsoft has released Exchange 2007 SP3 which can be downloaded from the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1687160b-634a-43cb-a65a-f355cff0afa6&displaylang=en

You can find out whats new with Exchange 2007 SP3 here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607226(EXCHG.80).aspx

What’s New in Exchange Server 2007 SP3

Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Topic Last Modified: 2010-03-31

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) introduces many new features for each server role. This topic discusses the new and improved features that are added when you install Exchange 2007 SP3.

To download Exchange 2007 SP3, see Exchange Server 2007 Downloads.

New Deployment Options

Windows Server 2008 R2 Support

Exchange Server 2007 SP3 supports all Exchange 2007 roles on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system.

Exchange 2007 SP3 provides support only for a new installation of Exchange on Windows Server 2008 R2. Exchange 2007 SP3 is not supported in an upgrade scenario on Windows Server 2008 R2. For example, Exchange 2007 SP3 does not support the following installation scenarios:

A new Exchange 2007 SP3 installation on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has been upgraded from Windows Server 2008
Upgrading Exchange 2007 SP2 to Exchange 2007 SP3 on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has been upgraded from Windows Server 2008
Upgrading the operating system from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 on a computer that has Exchange 2007 SP3 installed

For more information about the installation prerequisites for installing Exchange 2007 SP3 on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer, see How to Install Exchange 2007 SP1 and SP2 Prerequisites on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista. For more information about the supported operating systems for Exchange 2007 SP3, see Exchange 2007 System Requirements.

Windows 7 Support

Exchange 2007 SP3 supports the installation of the Exchange 2007 management tools on a computer that is running Windows 7. Additionally, Exchange 2007 SP3 provides support for the installation of the Exchange 2007 Management Tools together with the Exchange Server 2010 Management Tools on the same Windows 7-based computer.

Exchange 2007 SP3 provides support only for a new installation of the Exchange Management Tools on Windows 7. Exchange 2007 SP3 is not supported in an upgrade scenario on Windows 7. For example, Exchange 2007 SP3 does not support the following installation scenarios:

A new Exchange 2007 SP3 installation on a Windows 7-based computer that has been upgraded from Windows Vista
Upgrading Exchange 2007 SP2 to Exchange 2007 SP3 on a Windows 7-based computer that has been upgraded from Windows Vista
Upgrading the operating system from Windows Vista to Windows 7 with Exchange 2007 on a computer that has Exchange 2007 SP3 installed

For more information about how to install the Exchange 2007 management tools, see How to Install the Exchange 2007 Management Tools.

Improved Password Reset Functionality

Exchange 2007 SP3 introduces password reset functionality for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7. For more information, see How to Enable the Exchange 2007 SP3 Password Reset Tool.

Updated Search Functionality

Exchange 2007 SP3 includes updates to the Exchange Search (MSSearch) component. MSSearch provides support for creating full text indexes for Exchange stores. Exchange 2007 SP3 updates the MSSearch binary files to MSSearch 3.1.

Schema Changes

Exchange 2007 SP3 includes Active Directory schema changes for certain Unified Messaging (UM) mailbox attributes. For more information, see Active Directory Schema Changes (SP3).

Support for Right-to-Left Disclaimer Text

Exchange 2007 SP3 includes support for Right-to-Left text in e-mail message disclaimers in a right-to-left language, such as Arabic. In earlier versions of Exchange, when you use a transport rule to create a disclaimer in a right-to-left language on an Exchange 2007 Hub Transport server, the text appears incorrectly when you view it from Outlook 2007.

Exchange 2007 SP3 adds functionality to the transport rule setting to fully support right-to-left text in disclaimers

Exchange 2010 RU4 released

Exchange Genie — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:57:00 +0000

Roll up 4 to Exchange 2010 has been recently released and can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b4973e-3a80-4fb9-9f60-5c6e2b7a2727&displaylang=en

Exchange Genie Jr

Exchange Genie — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:14:22 +0000

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 the site. Let me introduce you to my new little helper and Exchange Genie Jr.

The next Exchange Genie

New blog

Exchange Genie — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:10:00 +0000

A former co worker of mine has started a new blog related to Exchange and I wanted to pass along the link http://fishexchange.spaces.live.com

Exchange 2010 RU2 Released

Exchange Genie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:25:57 +0000

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

EMS and how big is my database

Exchange Genie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:32:16 +0000

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)

How to upload a Photo with Exchange 2010

Exchange Genie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:17:52 +0000

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

What do you think is the hardest thing about Exchange Server

Exchange Genie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:55:17 +0000

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?

Happy New Year

Exchange Genie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:23:27 +0000

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

Using PowerShell to sort mailboxes by size

Exchange Genie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:35:21 +0000

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, let’s start with a command that lists all of the mailboxes in a given server, sorted by size. There are two variants for ascending and descending, differing only in the inclusion of the -Descending paramter in the Sort-Object cmdlet in the latter:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server RED-MSG01 | Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize | ` Format-Table DisplayName,TotalItemSize Get-MailboxStatistics -Server RED-MSG01 | Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize -Descending | ` Format-Table DisplayName,TotalItemSize

Pretty simple stuff, really; your basic pipeline exercise. You can also use Get-Mailbox -Server SERVER | Get-MailboxStatistics like I originally was, but since the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet already supports the -Server parameter it would be redundant. If you have some other way you need to define your collection of mailboxes, once you figure out how to define it, pipe the collection into Get-MailboxStatistics and away you go.

Next up, a variant of the same, only this time I want to only show those mailboxes larger than, say 1GB:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server RED-MSG01 | Where {$_.TotalItemSize -gt 1GB} | ` Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize -Descending | Format-Table DisplayName,TotalItemSize

The Where cmdlet gives me access to comparisons against any propertDispy on the collection of objects passed into it, so be careful where you use it in the pipeline. The collection of objects given by Get-Mailbox is not the same collection of objects given by Get-MailboxStatistics, and they will have different sets of properties. And yes, you put multiple Where cmdlets into different places in your pipeline to fine-tune your selections, as the following search for the Kelly brothers illustrates:

Get-Mailbox -Server RED-MSG01 | Where {$_.DisplayName -imatch "kelly"} | ` Get-MailboxStatistics | Where {$_.TotalItemSize -gt 1GB} | ` Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize -Descending | Format-Table DisplayName,TotalItemSize

This would show me all mailboxes whose display name contains the string “kelly” (without considering the case of the characters) and that was larger than 1GB in size. The -imatch comparison is a case-insensitive regular expression match, so I could have gotten fairly fancy in my comparison.

Last one: let’s take the list of mailboxes, in ascending order, and feed it to the Move-Mailbox cmdlet. This way, we’ll be moving the smaller mailboxes first, allowing us to get through more moves in the beginning and saving the real packrats for last:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server RED-MSG01 | Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize | ` Move-Mailbox -TargetDatabase "RED-MSG02\Mailbox Database"

Let me know if you have questions or comments!