I used to run Exchange 2003 in my test lab. After adding a new 2007 Server (HUB, CAS and Mail) in my AD and moving the mailboxes to the 2007 server, I started seeing problems in my Outlook 2007 Read more

Exchange 2007 offers a set of features that allow for centralized management of policies and limitations. These policies and limitations should help to setup and control mail flow, mailbox sizes, compliance (retention) and so. You'll need an Enterprise CAL Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To enable Read more