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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.
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After publishing some recent articles on RBAC, there was some feedback that a primer on RBAC would also be welcomed. So here it is!
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”
Some folks in the field may have seen this before, but it’s worth bubbling up to make sure everyone is aware of it!
I was sitting with one of my esteemed consulting colleagues today and he remarked that it was talking a long time to run one of his Exchange PowerShell scripts. The customer in question is a global organisation with hundreds of Exchange servers in all corners of the globe. My collea… Read the rest “Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets”
Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.
Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”
Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.
Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”
Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.
The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.
This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”
A long time ago, in a continent far, far away from where I currently live there was a younger, fitter and better looking version of me. One of the few woes that this chap had, was that on a Friday afternoon he would be struggling to delete enough files off a server to allow that day’s event log archive process to run. Site Server 3.0 ( yes, I’m really dating myself now….) was used to replicate th… Read the rest “PowerShell Resources For The Exchange Administrator”
While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of the servers. This met with some muttering and cursing from the nearby fabric covered box as the option to install the Desktop Experience feature is not as obvious as it was on Windows 2008 R2, highlighted below.
30-1-2013 Edit – Link to part 3 is here.
In the Exchange 2007 and 2010 world there are definite scenarios where there is a need to add multiple IP addresses to a server so that we can assign specific IP addresses to different web sites. However we do not want clients resolving the Exchange server to multiple A records and getting into a tizzy.
You can a review a previous blog post that I wrote on new… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Deux”
In the previous articles in this series we looked at the basic aspects of PowerShell and then the underlying mechanisms that are used to connect both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 management tools to Exchange. These articles can be found as follows: