A long time ago (in a Galaxy far, far away) I released a tool for Exchange 2007 called the OOOCTA. In essence the OOOCTA allowed […]
Read moreWelcome to: Exchange 2010 Articles
Articles focused around Exchange 2010. There’s quite a lot here around Database availability groups, the OOOCTA (out of office configuration tool), Remove Exchange attributes tool (useful for FUBAR situations).
I loved Exchange 2010 – there was so much to it and the journey that it continued with much better replication and resilience was quite amazing.
Errors Running Get-SetupLog.ps1 script on Exchange 2010
I have been working on a few Exchange installs recently which have not gone completely according to plan. Normally when Exchange setup fails my first […]
Read moreQuick Tip (Revisited) – How to get the physical sizes of Exchange Databases (in different versions of Exchange from a single script)
A couple of weeks back I published a very simple script which I had been using on a few versions of Exchange to determine the […]
Read moreExchange 2010–Get Physical Mailbox Database Size Script
Script Description This PowerShell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange […]
Read moreQuick Tip – How can I get the physical sizes of all my Exchange databases
I have been doing some work recently on pulling capacity management information from Exchange 2010 using PowerShell. One requirement that I needed to satisfy was […]
Read moreExchange 2010 DAG Update Database Copy – Hresult: 0x50d. Error: A database backup is already in progress.
I came back from Hol’s today to an odd issue with one of my production database copies (2010 x 3 node DAG). Whilst I was […]
Read moreExchange 2010 – Moving the Database Path on DAG Servers…
This is a pretty well documented process on the web and indeed on TechNet, but recently I have had to change the database path within […]
Read moreQuick Tip – Exchange 2010 cannot mount public folder database within a dag environment
After some critical patching in within my Exchange environment today I was faced with a problem where one of my Exchange 2010 Public Folder databases […]
Read moreClient Access Array Switchover script…
Let’s kick off this post by considering the following Exchange 2010 DAG Configuration: In summary – the Exchange infrastructure is spread across 3 geographic sites. […]
Read moreGathering Exchange 2010 Client Access Server Configuration data to a Microsoft InfoPath form…
I have been planning an upgrade within an DAG based Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 environment to Exchange Service Pack 2 with Roll up 2. […]
Read moreQuick Tip – Script to collate Exchange 2010 OAB Generation Logs…
The other day whilst trying to send an e-mail to a new starter in my organisation I discovered that their name did not appear to […]
Read moreQuick Tip – Delegating Distribution Group Creation & Management in Exchange 2010…
I was asked the above question the other day – essentially, how do you have a group of people with delegated access to manage all […]
Read moreInstalling & Using the Microsoft PST Capture Tool–Part 1…
The PST Capture Tool was released on the 30th Jan 2012 (see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx for more information) after a fairly long and highly anticipated wait by […]
Read moreI don’t like Mondays (tell me why), I don’t like Mondaaays–get your Out of Office set automatically if you don’t work on a specific day…
As the Boom Town Rats (and Sir Bob) said, I don’t like Mondays. Some of you lucky folks don’t have to work on a Monday […]
Read moreExchange 2010–Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration Sample Script
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange […]
Read moreExchange 2010–Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration sample script
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange […]
Read moreExchange 2010 Out of Office Fun with Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration…
In between some of the other stuff that I have been working on; I have also been thinking about the future of the OOOCTA tool. […]
Read moreIt’s a majority thing, DAG voting explained (a bit)…
I thought that it would be good to take a break from the development stuff that I have been doing on the site for the […]
Read moreQuick Tip–Update to Prerequisites for Installing Exchange 2010 SP1 / 2 on Windows 2008 R2
In around April 2011 I put together an article which made some recommendations for a successful installation of Exchange 2010 SP1 onto Windows Server 2008 […]
Read moreRUPS Tool version 1.3a
Note: The download version of this tool has been updated to reflect the lastest version. Just a very quick update to the RUPS tool, taking […]
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