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 be on the Global Address List within my Outlook client (Outlook 2010). Now I knew that the user had been created correctly (and had been several days ago), was also […]
Exchange 2010 Articles
Articles focused around Exchange 2010.
Quick 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 aspects of Distribution Lists within Exchange 2010? There was a desire to devolve the management of its Distribution Lists the HR section, therefore releasing a number of members from the […]
Installing & 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 the Exchange Community. In essence the PST Capture tool has two main tiers of operation: PST Capture Central Service The PST Capture Central Service maintains the knowledge of the PST […]
I 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 (or indeed some other days of the week) – so are you tired of setting your Out of Office the night before you are not in the office on a […]
Exchange 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 Management Shell Accepts a single mandatory parameter – 1) ReportFile Reports on the OOF status for each user in your organisation to a text file Download [ GetOOFExchange2010.ps1 – 1KB […]
Exchange 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 Management Shell Accepts two mandatory parameters – 1) Mailbox Name 2) Text file with OOF Messages Sets the Internal and External OOF Messages according to the text file Accepts two […]
Exchange 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. Currently OOOCTA supports both Exchange 2007 SP 1 (and above) as well as Exchange 2010, however the underling code infrastructure is a little complicated to say the least in order […]
It’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 last few months and focus on something a little more technical. I hope that the following will help aid some people in their own Exchange HA deployments. Historically I have […]
Quick 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 R2. Since then as you might expect a number of things have moved on in the world of both Windows and Exchange – therefore I have decided it is probably […]
RUPS 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 it to version 1.3a – nothing too major, just a small bug fix to the logic which detects and then manipulates the MSExchangeIS and MSExchangeTransport services – basically if you […]