I wanted to share some lessons learned recently as a result of working a case where the goal was to create a new mail contact in a remote forest.  Existing contacts were able to be edited, so permissions didn’t appear to be the issue.  I was...

You may have noticed that when you when you run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet, one of the switches available is –IncludeFolders.  With this switch, you can specify the folders to include in the export (duh!).  However, you may also notice that when...

I wanted to get this information out here, as we’ve had a few customers run into this.  The issue does not appear to affect core cluster functionality, but does affect the appearance of the cluster. First, one of my colleagues, Tim McMichael, has...

I’ve run into this a few times now, and wanted to share more details on this issue.  The scenario in which this occurs is perhaps not quite so common, but then again, depending on how you have folks with Delegates set up, it could have more of an...

One of the problems that I’ve seen customers encounter several times now when creating a new Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS), or attempting to recover an existing CMS is a failure during setup when the Network name resource is brought online.  The...

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been super busy.  I wanted to post something that I often have to do with customers. There may be times when in order to further troubleshoot a problem, you need to capture a Network Monitor trace. ...

A while back, I had promised to write another post detailing how to use Import-CSV and then run Move-Mailbox against the users in that CSV file. Well, quite a bit of time has passed since then, and getting this figured out proved a little more difficult...

Part of my job involves supporting the Exchange Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM).  In doing so, we sometimes come across things that don't really make a lot of sense (or at least they don't to me).  Take the following scenario...

Single Copy Clusters are the continuation of how clustering was implemented with previous versions of Exchange.  It is a standard cluster implementation which utilizes Shared Storage (i.e. SAN) and allows all nodes of the cluster access to the shared...

OK. I've heard lots of complaints about Exchange 2007 and the fact that when you run setup, the pre-requisite checks will fail if you have multiple domains in your forest, and one of those domains doesn't have a Windows 2003 SP1+ domain controller. That...

By now, you should be familiar with the day to day Powershell commands, so here is one that uses the foreach command. Foreach is used to loop through a given set of items (an array), and perform an action on each one. As an example, let's say that...

As you no doubt know by now, Exchange 2007 introduces different types of clustering. It still retains the traditional Single Copy cluster where all data is stored in a central location (i.e. SAN). It also introduces the concept of Cluster Continuous Replication...

Sorry folks. I'm starting to see some spam comments with nasty stuff in them. As of now, if you want to leave a comment here, you can no longer do so anonymously.

These guys are hilarious! I first caught on to them when they blended an iPhone (LOL!). Of course the funniest videos are the "Don't Try this @ Home" series. The latest in the series has them blend 6 Bic lighters. Do you think they end up exploding? Watch...

Have you noticed that there are a lot more things that you need to do (or can do) via the Command Shell in Exchange 2007? Do you wish that you could automatically save the session information to a text file? Here's a great tip help you out with that....

As some of you may be aware, the behavior when dealing with disabled user accounts has changed. Prior to these changes, when you disabled a user account, any mail sent to that account would NDR, and accessing the mailbox was not possible. In addition...

So you want to add a new Exchange administrator and set the scope to multiple servers, but the management shell won't allow you to do this? Here is what happens. Add-ExchangeAdministrator -identity <user> -role ServerAdmin -scope "server1...

I've seen a few of these reports recently and worked on one personally, so I thought I would mention this in case anyone else has run into this issue and wasn't sure how to fix it. The environment: ISA server 200x using a Web Publishing Rule to publish...

Now that you have been working with Exchange 2007 for a while, you may notice that in the Exchange Management Console, there are a few new things that you see. One of these is that when you look at objects, you now see a column labeled Recipient Type...

After enduring the many smart-alecky TV commercials that Apple has produced (some are funny, I grant), someone has written up a cartoony comparison of the I-Phone vs a WM SmartPhone. Having worked with Windows Mobile devices for a good long while now...

In working with the series of Daylight Saving Time patches that have been released, I wanted to highlight some of the issue that can be encountered. Thus far, I have found four issues that can be encountered. Each one is fairly unique, and some of them...

This was an interesting and good read. A reporter, who uses a Mac to do his work, switched to using Vista (albeit temporarily). I think the reporter did a good job of writing an unbiased article comparing the two. In the end, he went back to his Mac because...

Paul Flaherty blogs some GREAT information on a series of Webcasts for Exchange 2007. As he mentions, these aren't ordinary webcasts - they have homework. They sounds like a great way to get your skills updated for Exchange 2007. Link to Carpe Diem: Flaphead...

This was something that I just found out about a few weeks ago, so I thought I'd pass it along. You know how Exchange 2000 introduced Recipient Policies as a method of controlling which e-mail addresses get assigned to users. Furthermore, there is always...

My family and I spent Christmas in Cedar City, Utah visiting with my wife's family. During that time, her brother also got married. The wedding was on Wednesday, Dec, 27th, in St.George, Utah. While there had been a little snow in Cedar over Christmas...