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 of those installs have gone without a hitch – however, there have been some (and those tend to be the ones that I remember the most) that didn’t go so […]
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 tend to re-iterate the process for running or scheduling them. So rather than continue to cover the process over and over again, I thought that I would put together a […]
Installing & 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, and then took you through how you can install the tool onto a server within your environment. In this part I would like to explain how you can install the […]
For 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 Exchange for many years – I had not really considered why I like it so much as a product until that point in time – or indeed that I really […]
Creating 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 create them within Active Directory, I would like to present to you an article which is based on a more common production scenario – batch creation of Mailboxes. In essence […]
Quick Tip – Be careful with recipient SMTP addressing
It is possible that many of you will read this article and think “yeah I know all about this” – but, considering the havoc that it caused for one of my customers last week I thought that it might be worth doing a post on the subject – just in case!. You might have to […]
Problems 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 on why the BPA can fail or generate warnings when being run against a Windows 2008 based Exchange 2007 server using the “Health Check” option. The Two most common errors […]
Update 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 a chap called Josh mailed me and let me know that although it worked great for Outlook 2002, 2003 and 2007 – when using it with Outlook 2000 it failed […]
How 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 person like [email protected] I have never been the most comfortable with this idea as from my perspective generating mailboxes that are purely used for sending mail in and out are […]
What 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) tells it where the destination MTA is. A properly configured MX will consist of a correctly defined Alias record as MX records cannot be defined from CNAME or direct IP […]