• A Great Source for Exchange Scripts

    Posted over 10 years ago
    by GerodS [MSFT]}

    I recently found this blog.  I love to script.  I'm just not that good at it.  But I appreciate a good script when I see it.  And boy oh boy are these sweet.
    Glen has some really nice scripts here.
    Ever want to know how much whitespace is on your database via a script? 
    What about listing the file sizes of your Exchange databases in your entire domain?
    How about recovering deleted items from the dumpster programmatically?  Neat.

  • Outlook Live Released Today

    Posted over 10 years ago
    by GerodS [MSFT]}

    Today Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Office Outlook Live.  Some of the features:

    • 2 GB mailbox
    • 20 MB send and receive limit per message
    • Spam protection
    • Virus protection
    • Outlook application
    • Calendar sharing (even side by side on same screen)
    • Offline mode.

    For more details go here.  For a tour go here.

    So...  I asked my IT guys if I paid them $45 a year if they could offer me the same services...  :)

  • Boy I needed this today...

    Posted over 10 years ago
    by GerodS [MSFT]}

    So we had a thread today about why a customer's email didn't get sent to a recipient that it was intended to,  then Steve Wannenmacher replied:

    "Yeah, I've heard of something like it, waaaayy back in the OL98 days.  Back in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say... Now where were we? Oh yeah--the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
     
    We'd get a mis-indexed OAB on one client, and a message sent from that client would be delivered to the wrong recipient.  Can't for the life of me find the old bug, but I'm pretty sure bpipal found it.  I haven't heard of it in the past few years. 
     
    -Steve"
     
    Man, after the crappy day I had today, it sure felt good to laugh so hard.  Thanks Steve.

  • New update for EXBPA today - 1.6.7.1

    Posted over 10 years ago
    by GerodS [MSFT]}

    This will add about 50 more rules to your list.  You can update from the application or download from the link below:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dbab201f-4bee-4943-ac22-e2ddbd258df3&DisplayLang=en
    You can always get to EXBPA quickly by going to http://www.exbpa.com.