Today's post is to address a question we dealt with fairly recently through a customer escalation. The customer was trying to figure out the best way to programmatically get access to the entries in a MultiValuedProperty collection returned as part of an Exchange object. Specific example we'll use here...

Back in my PSS days, it was a common data-gathering/troubleshooting technique to collect "LDP Dumps" (ie - full AD propertyname+value data for a given object) as a way of collecting data for a troubleshooting investigation. If you're a really long-time Exchange administrator, just pretend I said "raw...

I just heard that (Exchange VP) Terry's going to be giving the keynote at Interact this year, and he's promised the first real public details about ExchangeLabs ! Sweet... this is exciting stuff! Plus -- Robert and Andrew will be presenting the PowerShell Automation talk, so that alone makes the conference...

Aeons ago, Vivek posted about how to get DL membership in Exchange 2007 . He commented that " This can be adapted to do nested membership as well—I’ll leave it to you to figure out how. " At the time, I remember reading this and thinking briefly about how I'd do this, but never really sitting down and...

Dmitry blogs all about it here . I'd been meaning to write pretty much this very same post ever since I attended Devin 's talk on managing Legacy Exchange with PowerShell at ExchangeConnections last November this past April , so I'm glad to see Dmitry write it up!

It turns out that my TechEd Exchange Scripting with PowerShell session was recorded to video, and now it's available for all to download (no more having to provide TechEd credentials!). Link below on the session title to the video of my session and to the rest of the sessions they've just released! ...

Lots of people are asking lots of questions at the ExchangeNinjas wiki ! Glad to see so much participation both from within the Exchange team and also from the broad Exchange community!! This question struck me as pretty interesting, so I figured I'd surface it on the blog as well as answering it...

I realized this week that all of the sessions (and video recordings of each session -- I didn't even realize they were recording ALL of the sessions!) are available online. This means even if you ended up double-booked for two interesting sessions and had to choose just ONE in person, you can still review...

I'm generally very focused on Exchange and our PowerShell cmdlets, but I had an opportunity this week to attend a demo session for the Quest "ActiveRoles Management Shell" cmdlets, one of several PowerShell related tools from Quest . This suite of Cmdlets seems primarily targeted to supporting the Quest...

I didn't get a chance to do this demo in my Exchange Automation with PowerShell session at Teched 2007, mostly due to time. However, I had a conversation with someone prior to my talk and I said that I'd cover it at some point. Well, let's cover it here in the blog and call it done. :) The point of this...

Wolfgang requested a reprint of the details from the "SMTP Demo" part of my TechEd talk last week. Here is (roughly) the transcript of the steps, and my comments interspersed... [PS] C:\>$dl = Get-DistributionGroup SomeGroup Ok, now we've got $dl variable loaded up with a distribution group...

Thanks to all those die-hards who attended UNC309 session this morning at 8:30am, and to those who spent some time at the "Interactive Theatre" (ie - chalk-talk) session afterward for Q&A, much appreciated! The session seemed to go fairly well, although even with placing a clock up on the presenter...

The first Exchange breakout session this morning served as a bit of an "Exchange 2007 Keynote" talk, with our General Manager Terry Myerson doing the delivery. He covered E2k7's features and characteristics end-to-end in 75 mins, and had a couple of us help out with demos to dig in on a few areas (Unified...

Wow, time sure flies. No posts since end of April; sorry about that! I'm (more or less) caught back up at work from these crazy few weeks (months?) just passed, and I'm even just returning from a week vacation... raring to go! So what's next? Well... this is a short week, and then next week (June 4-8...

Vivek had originally posted about how to do some basic Exchange cmdlet access from C# -- several months before E2k7 released: Calling Exchange Cmdlets from .Net Code . However, by the time we released, some things had changed in the technique and Vivek's examples were out of date. Recently, someone...

I'll be presenting at Exchange Connections (Spring/April 2007) conference at 9:30am on Monday, April 2nd, during "Microsoft Day" . Here's the session abstract: EMS05: Managing Exchange Server 2007: The New Exchange Management Console and Shell Evan Dodds Imagine having a toolset that is flexible...

In the last post, I walked through how to get mailboxes who met certain quota criteria (including inheriting these values from the mailbox database values). Today, let's cover this from a different perspective: "who is over their quota". Sure, it's possible to get this with a simple one-liner like...

... over at EHLO team blog in this post . Bill's been working on this one for a month or two, tweaking the conversion logic to make it as effective as possible. So if you are struggling with the manual steps I blogged about to convert your legacy LDAP EAP/AL/DDG filters into OPATH filter format for...

My earlier post about the MVP summit this week didn't really talk much about the Exchange participation because I didn't have the numbers. Thanks to Melissa's post at EHLO , now we have the numbers! Approximately every 12-18 months, Microsoft invites the MVPs to Redmond for the MVP Global Summit...

In this recent post , I blogged about Scope and the ViewEntireForest property of $AdminSessionADSettings variable. In particular, one thing I said in passing bears a bit more explanation: When you're in Forest scope, the admin session talks to a GC for all reads (to get the whole forest view),...

Benp recently posted his "guide to stuff" on the topic of PowerShell manipulation of AD objects , focusing on the use of the [ADSI] wrapper and System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry. This is an area that is quite interesting to understand from an Exchange 2007 administration standpoint, since there...

Matthew Byrd has been providing some insight into a bunch of specific cmdlets at the Exchange Ninjas wiki over the last few weeks. The cool thing about what he's been doing is that he's identifying cmdlets where their usage may be hard to understand ("what is the right syntax for this one?") or those...

I've had a note in my "blog about me" file for a month or two to call out the way to access Exchange "System Folders" with PowerShell cmdlets. I just went out and looked and there appears to be a couple of websites / posts (and probably others) that have already mentioned this briefly in their examples...

Recently I've gotten several questions about the "-ApplyMandatoryProperties" parameter on Set-Mailbox. Here's a quick overview of this parameter - what it does, why it does it, etc. What does ApplyMandatoryProperties parameter do? It applies the mandatory properties to the mailbox. Ok then,...

In the wake of the largest product launch in the company's history (Windows Vista operating system, Office 2007 and -- most importantly ! -- Exchange Server 2007), Microsoft Corp. will host the 2007 MVP Global Summit . The annual event recognizes the value that Microsoft-designated Most Valuable Professionals...