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Delegates not receiving meeting requests on Exchange 2007

I’ve run into this a few times now, and wanted to share more details on this issue.  The scenario in which this occurs is perhaps not quite so common, but then again, depending on how you have folks with Delegates set up, it could have more of an Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:13 PM by benw | 0 Comments

Exchange 2007 Sp1 Cluster Install/Recovery Issues

One of the problems that I’ve seen customers encounter several times now when creating a new Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS), or attempting to recover an existing CMS is a failure during setup when the Network name resource is brought online.  The Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:25 PM by benw | 1 Comments

Disabling LDAP Encryption and Signing for Netmon on an Exchange server

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been super busy.  I wanted to post something that I often have to do with customers. There may be times when in order to further troubleshoot a problem, you need to capture a Network Monitor trace.  Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 10:45 AM by benw | 2 Comments

Move Mailbox from a CSV Import file

A while back, I had promised to write another post detailing how to use Import-CSV and then run Move-Mailbox against the users in that CSV file. Well, quite a bit of time has passed since then, and getting this figured out proved a little more difficult Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 8:53 AM by benw | 2 Comments

MOM Exchange Management Pack alerts

Part of my job involves supporting the Exchange Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM).  In doing so, we sometimes come across things that don't really make a lot of sense (or at least they don't to me).  Take the following scenario. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 9:12 AM by benw | 3 Comments
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Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster Changes

Single Copy Clusters are the continuation of how clustering was implemented with previous versions of Exchange.  It is a standard cluster implementation which utilizes Shared Storage (i.e. SAN) and allows all nodes of the cluster access to the shared Read More...
Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 8:51 AM by benw | 0 Comments

Exchange 2007 SP1 Setup Domain Controller Requirements

OK. I've heard lots of complaints about Exchange 2007 and the fact that when you run setup, the pre-requisite checks will fail if you have multiple domains in your forest, and one of those domains doesn't have a Windows 2003 SP1+ domain controller. That's Read More...
Posted Monday, December 03, 2007 10:30 AM by benw | 1 Comments

Exchange 2007 Advanced Move Mailbox Powershell commands

By now, you should be familiar with the day to day Powershell commands, so here is one that uses the foreach command. Foreach is used to loop through a given set of items (an array), and perform an action on each one. As an example, let's say that you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:54 PM by benw | 2 Comments

Exchange 2007 Cluster Setup - Did it complete?

As you no doubt know by now, Exchange 2007 introduces different types of clustering. It still retains the traditional Single Copy cluster where all data is stored in a central location (i.e. SAN). It also introduces the concept of Cluster Continuous Replication, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 10:30 PM by benw | 1 Comments

No more anonymous comments

Sorry folks. I'm starting to see some spam comments with nasty stuff in them. As of now, if you want to leave a comment here, you can no longer do so anonymously. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:44 AM by benw | 0 Comments

Will It Blend? Presented By Blendtec

These guys are hilarious! I first caught on to them when they blended an iPhone (LOL!). Of course the funniest videos are the "Don't Try this @ Home" series. The latest in the series has them blend 6 Bic lighters. Do you think they end up exploding? Watch Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:40 PM by benw | 0 Comments

how to save your Exchange 2007 Powershell session transcript

Have you noticed that there are a lot more things that you need to do (or can do) via the Command Shell in Exchange 2007? Do you wish that you could automatically save the session information to a text file? Here's a great tip help you out with that. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:41 PM by benw | 0 Comments

Exchange 2003 and disabled user accounts

As some of you may be aware, the behavior when dealing with disabled user accounts has changed. Prior to these changes, when you disabled a user account, any mail sent to that account would NDR, and accessing the mailbox was not possible. In addition, Read More...
Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 4:03 PM by benw | 1 Comments

Add-ExchangeAdministrator and setting the scope to multiple servers with powershell

So you want to add a new Exchange administrator and set the scope to multiple servers, but the management shell won't allow you to do this? Here is what happens. Add-ExchangeAdministrator -identity <user> -role ServerAdmin -scope "server1","server2" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:13 PM by benw | 0 Comments

Exchange 2003, ISA and attachment size

I've seen a few of these reports recently and worked on one personally, so I thought I would mention this in case anyone else has run into this issue and wasn't sure how to fix it. The environment: ISA server 200x using a Web Publishing Rule to publish Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:33 PM by benw | 0 Comments
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