A new version of the configuration utility is now posted on the web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21E5A788-5993-40A9-BD35-B14D414E3E16&displaylang=en IMPORTANT : Before installing the new version of the configuration...

You know how some people set their OOF message and voicemail when they're going to be on vacation: “I won't have any access to email or voicemail...” and then check email and voicemail religiously throughout their entire vacation? Well, normally...

Blogs are pretty useful and I never cease to be amazed by the great info available out there on other people's blogs. With any luck I'll put some useful information here at some point.

In addition to the “Trouble upgrading your cluster to Exchange 2003 SP1?” steps posted to the blog a few weeks ago, here's another error I've seen posted on the newsgroups recently and a few common solutions: The network path was not found...

I have replied to this question a few times on the newsgroups previously, but I never did go ahead and post it on the blog. Here's the scenario: Attempt to run through Internet Mail Wizard (IMW) in Exchange 2003 ESM. Click "Next" to proceed beyond Server...

If you're not watching the EHLO (MS Exchange Team) blog , you're missing some great Exchange 2007 Systems Management related blog posts! It's been a while since I last posted the round-up of our SysMgmt posts here on my blog, but today let me bring you...

I've arrived safely in Las Vegas for the Fall 2006 Exchange Connections conference. I'll be presenting on Tuesday (Microsoft Day) a session about the new ITPro administration experience in Exchange 2007 -- session EMS301. Here's the abstract: EMS301:...

I'd previously blogged about Vivek posting the details and a link to the "Scriptacular Demo Pack" . This download can be very useful in preparing/provisioning an environment to use for demos, and then knocking the socks off your audience with the coolness...

The first part of the demo I describe in my previous post was to introduce the crowd to the basics of interacting with the Exchange cmdlets in PowerShell: [PS] C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>Get-ExchangeServer Name Site ServerRole...

Continuing from the previous post , during the second part of the demo I introduced the details on how to interact with other .net objects, along with some of the PowerShell glue that makes manipulating Exchange objects so powerful: [PS] C:\Program...

Continuing on from the previous post , in the third part of the demo I talk about using help and "finding things" in PowerShell. as well as introducing the concept of Exchange identity and filters (both traditional PowerShell client-side and Exchange...

Continuing from the previous post , in this final part of the demo I explain how I provisioned the environment, and demonstrated a script to "rip out" the environment and then effortlessly "regenerate" it again: [PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft...

... 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...

During my MVP Summit session the other day, we talked about mailbox quotas and PowerShell a bit. We ran out of time to do a full demo of some useful oneliners around quotas, but I figure it'll be just as useful to go over the details here. Mailbox size...

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...

Exchange 2007 has some very powerful cmdlets which can be used to generate fairly effective reports, out of the box. However, sometimes they're just a bit TOO powerful, and it leads to some confusion about how to get out the data you want. Example of...

Someone asked me the other day about how to get additional UPN suffixes listed in the UPN suffix dropdown in New Mailbox GUI wizard. My initial instinct was the obvious: Add some additional AD domains to your forest and they'll show up. Of course,...

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...

Wow, so this is interesting: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-daylight20.html . Evidently congress is/was considering changing Daylight Saving time in the upcoming “Energy Policy Act of 2005”. By this proposal, it would start in March and end...

Looking for KB.867624? It’s been replaced and retired (and removed)... I had previously blogged about the “ Upgrading to E2k3 SP2 on a cluster ” process, and in that posting I had referenced the KB.867624 article about how to upgrade...

Jim McBee recounts a recent experience with this , and how forgetting to do a “setup /reinstall” on the cluster node led to Exchange thinking it was a beta/evaluation version of Exchange. Excellent point to make: if you ever evict one of the (Exchange...

This question came up yesterday on a list I read, so I figured it might be of interest out here. Do you remember the “Setup Shall Install the Clustered Version of Exchange” pop-up in Exchange 2000? This was the pop-up you’d get when installing the...

As we closed out the first week of posting our flood of “Exchange 2007 Administrative/System Management” blog posts to the EHLO blog , I’m excited to say that we posted four blog topics from my team. With many more on the way…...

Ross just posted a detailed view of the permissions required to do both cross-site and intra-site mailbox moves over at the EHLO blog: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/08/29/428781.aspx . Great post if you’re looking for more info on what...

It’s been blogged a couple of places, but now that I’ve spent a little time out there adding some content, making corrections, etc I want to make sure it gets a mention here also… There’s a new Exchange 2007 Wiki in town! Are...