A Collection of Random Thoughts

Tips, tricks, thoughts relating mostly to Microsoft Exchange server, but occasionally other things as well.

Dude - why isn't a mailbox being provisioned/created in Exchange Online after licensing?

I've run into this scenario several times, and I wanted to share a common cause for this situation...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2018

Workload Management in Exchange 2013

Workload Management (WLM) is a great new feature that was introduced with Exchange 2013 (well, ok to...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2015

The Mystery of Calendar Permissions explained…

We get to experience a wide variety of issues here in Microsoft support, and some of them can get...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/21/2015

Recent experience with Exchange 2007 and Cross-Forest account management

I wanted to share some lessons learned recently as a result of working a case where the goal was to...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2010

Exchange 2007 and Export-Mailbox with the –IncludeFolders switch

You may have noticed that when you when you run the Export-Mailbox cmdlet, one of the switches...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2010

Exchange 2010 DAG and MaxQuorumLogSize cluster setting

I wanted to get this information out here, as we’ve had a few customers run into this.  The...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 06/15/2010

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 07/28/2009

Exchange 2007 Sp1 Cluster Install/Recovery Issues

One of the problems that I’ve seen customers encounter several times now when creating a new...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2009

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2008

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2008

MOM Exchange Management Pack alerts

Part of my job involves supporting the Exchange Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2008

Exchange 2007 Single Copy Cluster Changes

Single Copy Clusters are the continuation of how clustering was implemented with previous versions...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2008

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2007

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2007

Exchange 2007 Cluster Setup - Did it complete?

As you no doubt know by now, Exchange 2007 introduces different types of clustering. It still...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 08/06/2007

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2007

Will It Blend? Presented By Blendtec

These guys are hilarious! I first caught on to them when they blended an iPhone (LOL!). Of course...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2007

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2007

Exchange 2003 and disabled user accounts

As some of you may be aware, the behavior when dealing with disabled user accounts has changed....

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2007

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2007

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...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 05/03/2007

Exchange 2007 and Recipient Type Details

Now that you have been working with Exchange 2007 for a while, you may notice that in the Exchange...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 04/05/2007

Hi I'm an iPhone. And I'm a Smartphone

After enduring the many smart-alecky TV commercials that Apple has produced (some are funny, I...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2007

Potential issues with DST patching

In working with the series of Daylight Saving Time patches that have been released, I wanted to...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2007

A Mac user switches to Vista - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

This was an interesting and good read. A reporter, who uses a Mac to do his work, switched to using...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2007

24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007

Paul Flaherty blogs some GREAT information on a series of Webcasts for Exchange 2007. As he...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2007

How to temporarily break public folder access via OWA in Exchange 2000/2003

This was something that I just found out about a few weeks ago, so I thought I'd pass it along. You...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/18/2007

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

My family and I spent Christmas in Cedar City, Utah visiting with my wife's family. During that...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/02/2007

Southwest does a good job

Last week on Wednesday, I flew out of Las Vegas destined for Dallas. We had just spent a lovely...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 01/02/2007

Enabling Message Tracking for non-administrator accounts

If you work for a large organization, odds are that you may have people that you want to grant...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2006

Exchange 2003 Unattended Installs

If you have ever played around with doing unattended installs of Exchange, you will know that there...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2006

Incorrect information on MTA Stacks service

I had previously posted about the MTA Stacks service being required in order to configure RBL...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2006

Bulk-editing resource mailboxes with Powershell

This post is the result of an internal question specifically relating to bulk-editing resource...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006

Followup to configuring mailboxes via Powershell

I mentioned at the end of the post about configuring a resource mailbox via Powershell that I...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2006

Configuring Resource Mailboxes via MSH/Powershell

I'd previously blogged here about Resource booking in Exchange 2007 and talked about configuring...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2006

DSAccess issues

If you run Exchange, no doubt you know how important Active Directory is. However, you may not be as...

Author: Ben Winzenz [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2006