Over the years, I have installed Exchange Server probably thousands of times. In big infrastructures, little infrastructures and everything in between. Luckily the vast majority […]
Read moreWelcome to: Exchange General
In this section you will find historic articles that can apply to most versions of Exchange, general observations that I have made over the years or I just didn’t know quite where to file them!
Some of them may apply more to a specific version of Exchange more than another so check the content just in case, but where possible (or where I was paying attention) I have placed them in other categories on the site so they may appear twice depending on where you are looking.
Quick Tip – Running Exchange Based PowerShell script files from the command line or a batch file…
I have been asked this quite a bit over the years, and indeed in most of my articles where I provide PS based scripts I […]
Read moreInstalling & Using the Microsoft PST Capture Tool–Part 2…
In the previous part of this series I explained what the Microsoft PST Capture tool was, described a little bit about its architecture and components, […]
Read moreFor the love of Exchange…
Someone asked me a little while back why I love Exchange so much. This was an interesting question, as even though I have worked with […]
Read moreCreating Mailbox Users in Powershell from a CSV – and then Merging the details into Microsoft Word…
Following on very loosely from my article here which provides a sample of 300 LAB users within a CSV file and a Powershell script to […]
Read moreProblems with the EXBPA on using CCR Clustering on Windows 2008
Whilst on the subject of the EXBPA (previous rambling here http://telnetport25.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/red-herrings-with-the-exchange-2007-bpa-and-windows-2008-in-a-ccr-cluster) I thought that I would pass on a couple of (probably well known) tips […]
Read moreUpdate to Adding Outlook Signatures (Outlook 2000 Fix) …
A little while ago I posted an article on how you can create signatures for Outlook using VBSCRIPT which seemed to function very well until […]
Read moreHow to “Send As” a distribution list…
My company makes heavy use of what we call “generic” mailboxes, where for example the mail items are sent to [email protected] rather than an individual […]
Read moreWhat exactly is an MX record (Mail Exchanger)?
A MX (Mail Exchanger) record in its simplest form is a DNS entry for a domain which when queried by a sending MTA (SMTP Server) […]
Read moreDear John letters from your Exchange Server – Non Delivery Reports…
Ok, most of us are familiar with NDRs and generally we hate the sight of them – however they can be very useful little critters […]
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