Or: How you can use Powershell to create virtual machines! With a few keystroke you can create a virtual machine and attach an existing VHD(X) file to it! I usually look for the fastest and easiest way to get things done. Always manually rebuilding...

So after much waiting and anticipating, server 2012 has been launched! Wooooooohhhhh!!!! Now get on to the real interesting bits, exchange 2013 :p! http://www.windows-server-launch.com/

*repost from my old blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/marcde/archive/2011/11/03/dags-and-reseeding.aspx I worked on a case today which had 2 Exchange 2010 servers in a DAG with about 6 mailboxes, all in healthy status. All but one that is. This DataBaseCopy...

As you might, or not, be aware off there is no item level based recovery in Exchange that is natively supported by Microsoft. So to perform recoveries we need the recovery storage group (captain obvious). The purpose of this is to mount the database you...

During the lifespan of an Exchange server a database can become very, very large in the size it takes on the disk, much larger than the space used by the mailboxes that reside in the database. This is because whilst mailbox sizes will expand and shrink...

*Repost from http://geekswithblogs.net/marcde Exchange is a complex and large product which can have one thousand and one possible issues, one more obscure as the next. The purpose of this guide is to shed some light, where possible, to how things work...

This script will allow you to add all PSTs in a txt file (full path). On error resume next Const ForReading = 1 Dim arrFileLines() Dim objNetwork,ObjFSO,objFile,objNet,objOutlook i=0 Set objnet ...

Building on, this code will remove the mapping that has been done in outlook for ALL PST files. 'On Error resume next Dim objOutlook 'As Outlook.Application Dim Session 'As Outlook.NameSpace Dim Store 'As Outlook.Store ...

One of my clients was in a nasty situation, he had a ton of users with PST files on the fileserver and they wanted that changed. Understandable as it is an unsupported situation . Now the real problem is that every option we went over required a ton of...

Don’t you just hate it when auditing times come around and they ask a list of each and every person who has access to each and every mailbox in your environment  –_-. Since this happened to one of my clients I wrote the following powershell command...

When the worst happens it hits hard. Restoring a server is a lengthy process with users and managers alike breathing down your neck, so we try to help as much as possible where we can. The best advise I can give you is do this in a test environment a...

One of those things you just have to do sometimes is taking a nice backup of your IIS metabase. As we all know, exchange stores its configuration information in active directory but the 2003 version of exchange relies heavily on IIS to be able to function...

The background workings of a CCR can be quite mysterious but are, all in all, not that difficult to understand. First of all we need to know the following things: There are two fundamental elements for the Exchange store: The transaction logs and...