A couple of weeks back an online buddy of mine contacted me to ask some advice. In essence his company was performing some major upgrades […]
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Exchange installs and upgrades the good, the bad and the ugly…
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 […]
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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 moreUpdate to my create LAB users Powershell Script–Multiple Domains and 500 more users!…
I have been making some modifications to my home lab over the last few days, one key change has been to add in a child […]
Read moreUsing Powershell to Archive Mailboxes to PST based upon the AD lastLogonTime in Exchange 2007…
A little while ago I ran into a neat little freeware tool for Powershell called the Inactive Users Tracker PowerShell Cmdlet by a company called […]
Read moreQuick Tip– Error Occurred in step: Moving Messages – MAPI or an unspecified service provider – ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code:–1056749164…
Linked to my previous post here after I had solved one issue I was immediately faced with another. Even though I was now past the […]
Read moreQuick Tip– Error –2147221219 Occurred in Step: Approving Object during Exchange 2007 Export-Mailbox Session…
Whilst writing a script for a larger post today I came across the above error. In essence, every time that I tried to use the […]
Read moreContact Master–Bulk Import of Mail Enabled Contacts for Exchange 2007 and 2010…
Edit: This article has been updated to reflect a slightly revised version of the Application. The old version did not correctly load the Exchange 2010 […]
Read moreIntroducing DynaVert for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010…
Whoa Grogie, what the hell is DynaVert? – something to do with Prehistoric lizards? – thankfully no!. DynaVert is a little tool that I have […]
Read moreQuick Tip–Add a member account to all Distribution Groups in your Environment
Today I had the need to add a single user to all the Distribution Groups (around 120) within my Exchange Environment. Thankfully doing this task […]
Read moreQuick Tip–Creating Distribution Groups from a CSV file using Powershell for a LAB environment….
In a previous article, I provided a Powershell script which could be used to create a number of users for use within a Lab (test […]
Read moreOOOCTA 3.5 – Released– Overview, Installation and Video Tape– part 1…
Yes, after years of development (since around 2009) and a little late for the mid-Feb 2011 release date – I am finally (and very proudly) […]
Read moreExchange 2007 – Service Pack 1 – Service Pack 3 Address List Segregation Tool Version 2.2.1 .NET – Part 2 (Adding in a second environment plus additional configuration)…
STOP PRESS… One of the first things that you might have noticed is that there is a change to the version number of the ALST […]
Read moreForging your own cost effective home Exchange lab environment and why…
I have been meaning to write this for a little while but have been trying to find the time to sit down and think it […]
Read moreExchange 2007 – Service Pack 1 – Service Pack 3 Address List Segregation Tool Version 2.2.0 .NET – Part 1 (Installation and initial Segregation)…
Well, it is finally here – after months of development, hard work, swearing, beer, pizza and almost one divorce (mind you if there was two […]
Read moreExchange 2007 Service Pack 2 with the Exchange Plug-in, Recovery Storage Groups and Windows 2008 Server Backup…
Well I guess the title of this article perhaps might belong in a techno nerdy film (or perhaps not); but as it indeed suggests I […]
Read moreQuick Tip – Simplified Message Tracking of Senders to HTML in Exchange 2007…
I have been doing some scripting recently for the current firm that I work for; prior to my jaunt off into the sunset to take […]
Read moreExchange 2007 CCR – Going Pro (as in Production) – Part 2 – deriving production CCR Hardware Specifications for 8000 users…
In the first part of this article – which I wrote many moons ago (located here: Exchange 2007 CCR – Going Pro (as in Production) […]
Read moreExchange 2007 – Tracking and Analysing Large Mailbox Move Reports – using the ExchangeMoveMailboxTaskViewer Tool…
Sorry folks, it has been a while since I last posted, it has been a very busy period for me; not just with rebuilding a […]
Read moreSwitching CCR Storage Groups into Circular Logging during Migration – and why you might want to do this…
Ok, generally speaking – in production environments you would not consider running a Storage Group with Circular logging enabled. But, there are a few occasions […]
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