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MEC 2014 – 2 Weeks And Counting

Wow, time has certainly flown and its now only two weeks until MEC 2014 happens down in sunny Austin, Texas!

My MEC Profile is here.  Currently looking at all the sessions and planning that out!

MEC 2014 Splash Screen

I’m really pumped and am looking forward to meeting a load of virtual friends from a wide range of countries from Sweden, Australia and the UK to name just a few!  Having so many community members in a singl… Read the rest “MEC 2014 – 2 Weeks And Counting”

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Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence

Since we are still in the early stages of the year, and Exchange 2013 SP1 is now available, we will see lots of migrations to Exchange 2013.  Exchange 2013 can be deployed into an existing Exchange organisation where Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 + and/or Exchange 2010 SP3 exists.

Let's look at an issue that can arise in an Outlook Anywhere co-existence scenario with Exchange 2007 and 2013.  After walking … Read the rest “Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101

For the final gripping chapter, here are tips #76 to 101 for your PowerShell pleasure!

For the related articles in this series please see:

Tips 1 – 25

Tips 26 - 50

Tips 51 – 75

Tip of the day #76:

Exchange 2010 uses management role groups and management role assignment policies to manage permissions.
Role groups enable you to grant permissions to groups of administrators and specialist end users. These a… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

Here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 51 to 75.

For the related articles in this series please see:

Tips 1 - 25

Tips 26 – 50

Tips 76 - 101

Tip of the day #51:

Want to determine whether a server is running Exchange Server 2010 Standard Edition or Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition? Type:

Get-ExchangeServer <Server Name> | Format-Table Name, Edition

If you want to view which edit… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU5 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.

The astute reader will note that I did not post about the release of Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 since that was a securRead the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released”

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Exchange 2013 SP1 Released

Exchange 2013 SP1 On Microsoft Download CenterExchange 2013 SP1 has now been released to the Microsoft Download Center!

The build number for Exchange Server 2013 SP1 is 15.00.0847.032

Update 5-3-2014:  If you are using custom transport agents please see Third-party transport agents cannot be loaded correctly in Exchange Server 2013  The script you need to remediate the issue is linked from that KB, and is available directly from the download centerRead the rest “Exchange 2013 SP1 Released”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

Leading on where the previous post left off, here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 26 to 50.

For the related articles in this series please see:

Tips 1 – 25

Tips 51 – 75

Tips 76 - 101

Tip of the day #26:

Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard characters to retrieve all properties that match the part of the name that you specify:

Get-Mailbox | Format-Table Name… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25

The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell.  One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day!

Since I had not see a complete list of the Exchange 2010 ones, I thought I’d jot them down.  Exchange 2007 Tips are listed on TechNet.

Scroll down to the bottom for … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”

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Exchange RBAC Tips N Tricks – PowerShell

Most of the time when working with RBAC in Exchange we are not using large scripts to create and manage roles.  Generally we use one-liners to configure RBAC.  So I thought it would be useful to post some of the ones that I find myself frequently using.

As always please add a comment, or hit me up on the contact page and  tell me want topics you want to see added here!

Where does this Cmdlet Live

Whe

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Exchange RBAC Primer

After publishing some recent articles on RBAC, there was some feedback that a primer on RBAC would also be welcomed.  So here it is!

What is RBAC?

It is not Really Boring Access Control.

RBAC = Role Based Access Control.  As a concept it is not new, however Exchange 2010 was the first time that it has been natively supported in Exchange.  That being said, we still had the concept of roles in Exchange … Read the rest “Exchange RBAC Primer”