Ok, so I was thinking (which is always a very dangerous thing!) – after my last post on how you can programmatically count Mailboxes per Exchange Database – I was wondering how you can programmatically get a list of all Exchange Mailbox Databases in Active Directory via their distinguishedName. Why was I thinking this? – [...]

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Ok, I know that the above is pretty easy using Powershell. In fact it is possible to also implement this using Automation Runspaces (again executing Powershell cmdlets from within the C# project) to achieve the same thing. But for a program that I am writing at the moment I needed to take a slight different [...]

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So as some of you will know I have been working on a number of programming projects over the last few years. Admittedly some are better than others – but the one thing that has always bothered me is how I can provide a better setup and configuration experience for my readers. Most of my [...]

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WinWOL (Windows Wake on LAN)–Version 1.1

by Andy Grogan April 27, 2013

In January I released a very simple tool called ‘WinWOL’ (Windows Wake on LAN) which, as the name suggests is a Windows based Wake on LAN manager. Over the last few months I have been looking at the software again and wanted to change how it worked to make it a little simpler to use. [...]

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Released– Exchange Bulk User Creation Tool v2.0 (EBUCT 2.0)…

by Andy Grogan April 26, 2013

I guess that I never really finish a tool. There is always something that I can think of to add or a suggestion that someone makes that I want to code in! This is especially true for the Exchange Bulk User Creation Tool v2.0 (EBUCT) where hot on the heels of version 1.2 – I [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 9: Cumulative Update 1

by Andy Grogan April 7, 2013

Ok, yes I know – I said that Part 8 was the last in this particular series – but then Microsoft went and released Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for Exchange 2013 (on April 2nd) which left me feeling that if I did not cover this – then the LAB series was not properly completed. For [...]

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MVP Award for 2013 – half a decade ~ wow!

by Andy Grogan April 1, 2013

Wow, and I really mean wow! – here in the UK it has been a 4 day holiday due to Easter ~ However, to round off what has been a very cool four days with my family – I received the following e-mail just a few moments ago from Microsoft: Dear Andy Grogan,Congratulations! We are [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 8: Users, Mailboxes, Distribution lists and Public Folders…

by Andy Grogan March 24, 2013

Ok, we are now in the final straight in this series with this being the final part of creating a test lab from scratch with Windows Servers 2012 and Exchange 2013. I could in truth perhaps go on forever as there are loads of things that I have not covered. But that is the beauty [...]

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Distribution List Reporting Tool (DLRT) 2.5

by Andy Grogan March 17, 2013

I have been adding a few features to the Distribution List Reporting Tool which I thought that would be useful and I am pleased to announce that I think that it is ready. Hope that you like it. Change History Version 1.0 Initial release Version 1.1 Added in handling for environments where there are no [...]

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Building an Exchange 2013 LAB Environment using Windows Server 2012 from scratch – Part 7: Setting up DAG Databases and SSL…

by Andy Grogan March 16, 2013

Wow – part 7 – this is now (I think) officially the longest running series that I have written and not forgotten to finish it (don’t worry this is not the end, there is one more part to go). Took a little while to get this one off the deck as there are a few [...]

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