Many of you may already have seen the post on Microsoft Exchange Team Blog announcing the availability of Exchange 2010 Architecture poster . you may also have seen Transport Architecture Diagrams published a while ago. If you have not, head over to those links and download those posters as they are great for learning and reference. For those who are mobile and don’t want to carry around printed poster, I have created Deep Zoom versions of the posters. If you have not experienced...

I recently had an honor to go through Microsoft Certified Master program for Exchange 2010 and I am glad to have made it through the course successfully! So for those of you who might be interested in learning what is it like to be in MCM, I am going to try and jot down some of my thoughts. Starting the Process First things first. To become an MCM, you have to start somewhere. The MCM program offers exclusive, advanced training to seasoned IT professionals. One needs to have extensive...

Philadelphia Area Exchange Server User Group is hosting a meeting on September 9, dedicated to Microsoft Exchange Online! Many have been asking what does Microsoft Online offer? What does it mean? How do I upgrade my skills for new type of computing that is gaining popularity rapidly. Well, we are answering the questions by dedicating this meeting specifically to Microsoft Exchange Online offering. We will discuss details, answer questions and demo BPOS-S deployment live! While...

If you are deploying BlackBerry in Exchange 2010 environment, one of the requirements is to change throttling limits on Address Book Service from default 50 to 100,000. While I reserve my judgment to what number is right, you will have to change it to some number above 50 for sure. If you have many CAS servers where you have to change this, it quickly becomes painful because you have to change config file and restart services. Well, sweat no more if you are in this situation....

I recently borrowed a Sony Reader Touch Edition from someone I know to try it out. As I started using Sony’s own library manager, I quickly got bored. I then tried open source Calibre which turned out to be a lot better interface but had a major flaw when it comes to supporting Sony Reader: It didn’t support importing word documents in the library despite of Sont Reader’s capability to read it. It can however import filtered html files which work can produce. Given my lazy nature...

I was recently troubleshooting a script when I came across a problem where a variable with defined scope was not retaining its value even though scope seemed correct. Let’s look at simplified example below: Function Global:Name-ofaFunction { $Global:VariableinQuestion = $null $VariableinQuestion = "Value" $VariableinQuestion } Name-ofaFunction $VariableinQuestion The function “Name-ofaFunction” when called, creates a variable with global scope and sets its value...

This started as a discussion on why System.Net.Webclient does not have a way to ignore SSL trust and how VBScript was easier in trying to check URL and return certain string. It’s the later part which got me going. I wanted to prove that PowerShell is, well, more powerful and easier to use. I want on quest to find the answer and here it is! It wasn’t well documented or easy to find but putting my bing skills to work and tweaking my findings to do what we needed to do, I was able...

If you are like me, you are always looking for ways to not leave your chair, or for that matter, not switch windows. When it comes to install Update Rollups on every Exchange 2010 server you have, the same applies. So I set out to find a way and I found one! Even though this requires some work upfront, it will make it easy ever after. Pre-Requisites: The cost of making it easier for future is the work you have to do now. Well, let’s get to it. In order to be able to connect to...

If you are running Windows 7, you probably know what preview pane is. And if you use PowerShell and create ps1 scripts, you may also wonder how can you enable preview for PowerShell scripts in Windows Explorer. Well, Nate Bruneau shared how to edit registry to enable preview for ps1 scripts. Being a scripter myself, I figured I would wrap it into a nice script and share it with everyone. Thanks Nate for your permission. The scrip runs on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You...