• Bulk populate an AD using a CSV file and New-ADUser, including Passwords

    Problem : New-ADUser is n ot working as expected to populate a password coming from a CSV file (the account stays disabled) here is the example and the reason: Prerequisites: Import the Active Directory module on your powershell session using Import...
  • Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Intra-Organization migration

    Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration path Step Step Title Details (migration from Exchange 2003) Step 1 Certificate Acquire new commercial certificate for external client coexistence...
  • Active Directory Schema upgrade procedure - with back-out plan

    The aim of the procedure in this post is to avoid you to dig around the technet to rebuild it. It’s written for Exchange 2010 SP1 here, but can easily be adapted for any product schema updates by replacing the Exchange 2010 SP1 values and links...
  • Exchange Server–Use ExTRA to take traces for search issues

      To diagnose a problem more indepth, we will use the Exchange Troubleshooting Analyzer (from the Toolbox on the Exchange Management Console) : - Select a task - Click on trace control - Click on set manual trace log - On components to trace, choose...
  • Exchange Server 2010 SP1–The replacer of PFDAVAdmin : ExFolders

      To manage your public folders permissions, including the system folders if you still use them with Outlook 2003 clients, you no longer use PFDAVAdmin, but use ExFolders in replacement. Some of the many new features that deserve to be underlined...