Most Exchange administrators have noticed at one time or another that there are folders they can see and access through admin tools such as Exchange System Manager or PFDAVAdmin, but they can’t see or access those same folders through Outlook or OWA....

I just had a customer who needed to migrate contacts from an external database into a public folder. They could export the contacts from the database to a CSV, but they needed a way to get the CSV into the public folder. Last night, I whipped up this...

In my post Accessing The Information Store From Powershell , I promised I would post a real-world Outlook Object Model example in the future, so here it is. Back in 2008, I posted part 4 of my public folder replication troubleshooting series on the...

Exchange Server setup grants permissions to various groups at various places in the domain and configuration contexts of Active Directory. Since Exchange relies on these permissions in order for everything to work properly, from time to time we see cases...

As announced over on the Exchange Team Blog, an updated version of PFDAVAdmin was released to the download center a few days ago. See that post for details. This updated version has been used internally for a while, but if you notice any problems with...

One of the strengths of the PFDAVAdmin and ExFolders tools is that they can perform an operation against a lot of public folders or mailboxes at once. If you’re doing some sort of export, this can generate a lot of output. So how can you filter the output...

In the course of troubleshooting Exchange issues, one discovers a lot of instances where scripting against the Information Store is useful. There are a few ways to access the Information Store from scripts, but for this post I will focus exclusively on...

Hi! I’m Bill Long, an Escalation Engineer for Exchange Server. If you read the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog , you may have seen some of my posts before. A few of the ones that are still relevant are: Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting - Part...