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Free tool - Extracting email addresses from Outlook mail folders

I recently received the request to extract all email addresses from an Outlook pst file, not from the contacts, but from all emails within the Outlook folder structure. I opened the Outlook file (3,5Gb) and found a huge folder Read more

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Exchange 2007 Administration : Antispam and Content Filtering

Enable content filtering on a HUB Transport server

If you want to enable the content filter on a HUB transport server, run the "./install-AntispamAgents.ps1" script from the %Program Files%\Exchange Server\Scripts folder. Next, restart the Microsoft Exchange Transport Read more

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Exchange 2007 Administration : Users, Groups and Mailboxes

Creating mailboxes for existing AD users

Basic command : enable-mailbox –identity "Username (UPN)" -database "SERVER\Mailbox Database" -alias "alias" -ExternalEmailAddress email@adres.com If you want to create a mailbox for all users in a specific OU, use Read more

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Exchange 2007 Administration : Setup and Delegation

Management tools for 32bit OS

Download from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6BE38633-7248-4532-929B-76E9C677E802&displaylang=en. During installation, you need to have access to AD. Furthermore, the tools won't work on Vista. You'll get a similar error when those conditions are not met:    Check Read more

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How to properly restore (objects in) the 2003 AD database

Windows 2000 /Active Directory has been around for more than 7 years now. I've been using AD for almost 7 years, and due to its stability, I never had to recover a deleted object in AD. (Knock on wood). Read more

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Performing AD Schema Updates in a safe way

Updating from 2003 to 2003 R2 & implementing Exchange are 2 common administrative tasks which both require a schema update. Since I've mentioned "updating from 2003 to 2003 R2", I'll take the opportunity to add some "notes from the Read more

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How to backup VMWare ESX virtual machines

Today, I will try to explain 2 techniques that will allow you to backup your vmdk files (virtual machines) on a VMWare ESX 3.0.x server. My lab runs on 3.0.2, but this will work on 3.0.1 (and maybe earlier Read more

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Exchange 2007 : Indexing and searching mailboxes

The Exchange 2007 search engine has much improved over the index/search engines that were available in Exchange 2000/2003. The new search is less resource-hungry, fast, searched inside attachments, and is enabled out of the box.

Enable/Disable search

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Delegating AD Admin tasks to non-Admin accounts

Designing a distributed/international Active Directory is certainly the most important piece of a successful AD implementation. One of the issues that should be dealt with is whether you want to allow other people to be Enterprise/Domain Admin or not. Read more

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How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare

The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I've used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, Read more

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