Messaging with Communications

  • ADTD Not Drawing Exchange Organization

    Background The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD), also previously called ADMap, is a downloadable tool from Microsoft that can read information about Active Directory as well as Exchange from your AD and then using Visio draw a representation...
  • Outlook, Discovery Mailboxes and Private Items

    So, one of the great features of Exchange 2010 is the Discovery feature, also known as the Multi-Mailbox Search. If you're not familiar with it, this feature provides the ability to search Exchange mailboxes for messages which meet certain criteria. This...
  • Lync and Intermittent AOL PIC Issues

    Background On of the features of the Communications Server product going all the way back to Live Communications Server 2005, is Public IM Connectivity (PIC) . This feature allows you to setup connectivity between Communication Server and three of...
  • Office365 - Exchange 2003 Free/Busy Coexistence Issues

    So, recently we worked an issue for a customer that we struggled with for a long time: Exchange 2003 users couldn't see Free/Busy information for users who had been moved to Office365. This should work and is fully supported as part of Office365 migration...
  • Keeping Up with Office Updates

    A lot of folks do not understand that there are several different types of releases we provide for the Office suite of products. These are: Main Product Release (also known as the RTM version of a product) Service Packs Security, Interim Updates...
  • Enterprise Message Size Limits

    Overview In the ongoing administrator versus user fights, message size limits always seems to come up. Why? Users feel they need to attach that PowerPoint slide deck with movies and sound that is well over 100MB and send it to everyone in the organization...
  • How to Block OWA for External Users

    My customer decided that they needed to block OWA externally but leave it open internally. Why? OWA does pose a security risk having e-mail open to the internet. Yes, passwords, firewalls, etc all provide levels of protection, but it is still an opening...
  • Ever try to Export-CSV but information is missing in the CSV replaced SysInfo

    This came from doing this command but one of the fields was not exporting… [PS] C:\scripts>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus e2k10DB01 | Select @{ n = "OutstandingDumpsterRequests"; e={$_.OutstandingDumpsterRequests}} |export-csv test.txt...
  • How to Manage Exchange 2010 Message Queues

    Queues · Get-Queue · Resume-Queue · Retry-Queue · Suspend-Queue Messages · Get-Message · Remove-Message · Resume-Message · Suspend-Message · Export-Messages ...
  • How to track Message in Exchange 2003/2007/2010

    Message tracking versions · Exchange 2003 o Structure is different, still csv but fields are not compatible to Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 o Message tracking will stop at last Exchange 2003 Server. · Exchange 2007 o Message...
  • Oh no, not another blog...

    Why do we need another blog? Because our team has some pretty unique experiences we would like to share with the world, so hopefully you can use our knowledge to make your lives better, at least as it realtes to messaging! This blog will contain the collected...