Exchange-Genie

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)

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 that [...]

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 end point [...]

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

Now that we have take an look into a number of new features in OWA (http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/08/owa-2010-part2-calendaring/ and http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/07/owa-2010-part1-inbox/) its time to move onto OWA options that is now called Exchange Control Panel or ECP.  The ECP has a number of new features, as well as some features that were present in previous versions of OWA.
A users [...]

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 the [...]

As the code in Exchange 2010 keeps maturing it will be time for me to start publishing a lot of new articles.
Exchange 2010 builds upon Exchange 2007 yet has made significant changes to the product that I believe makes this the best version of Exchange that has been built to date.  Now that Microsoft and [...]

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 [...]

Installing Exchange 2010 from the command line
In this post I will install Exchange from the command line to show the flexablitly.
I have extracted the bits to c:\ex2010\bits
Microsoft now includes a scripts folder with the extracted binaries which contains several xml files  that can be used to install all of the Windows required componets.
Lets start by creating a [...]