Wow, time sure flies. No posts since end of April; sorry about that! I’m (more or less) caught back up at work from these crazy few weeks (months?) just passed, and I’m even just returning from a week vacation… raring to go! So what’s next? Well… this is a short week, and…
Year: 2007
Why no blog posts lately?
You might have noticed that after several weeks of very regular blog posts, they suddenly and abruptly stopped. I have an explanation: I’m super busy this month at work! This should continue for a few more weeks. But expect to see more regular posts again for a while after that — I’ve got a good queue…
Ack, I’ve been tagged!
Rod got me the other day with a “5 things you don’t know about me” post, so now it’s my turn. Five Things you (probably) don’t know about me: 1) I’m president of my homeowner association. Before that I was secretary. Before that I was secretary of the association in our Charlotte neighborhood. Conclusion: I’m a…
Exchange cmdlets from C#
Vivek had originally posted about how to do some basic Exchange cmdlet access from C# — several months before E2k7 released: Calling Exchange Cmdlets from .Net Code. However, by the time we released, some things had changed in the technique and Vivek’s examples were out of date. Recently, someone pointed me to the updated UE docs that…
Exchange Connections Spring 2007
I’ll be presenting at Exchange Connections (Spring/April 2007) conference at 9:30am on Monday, April 2nd, during “Microsoft Day”. Here’s the session abstract: EMS05: Managing Exchange Server 2007: The New Exchange Management Console and ShellEvan DoddsImagine having a toolset that is flexible enough to easily deploy and administer a single Exchange server and yet powerful enough to completely automate…
More Quota madness – this time MailboxStatistics
In the last post, I walked through how to get mailboxes who met certain quota criteria (including inheriting these values from the mailbox database values). Today, let’s cover this from a different perspective: “who is over their quota”. Sure, it’s possible to get this with a simple one-liner like: Get-MailboxStatistics | fl DisplayName,StorageLimitStatus But, in…
Quota madness
During my MVP Summit session the other day, we talked about mailbox quotas and PowerShell a bit. We ran out of time to do a full demo of some useful oneliners around quotas, but I figure it’ll be just as useful to go over the details here. Mailbox size quotas in Exchange 2007 work just…
Bill’s LDAP->OPATH filter conversion script gets posted
… over at EHLO team blog in this post. Bill’s been working on this one for a month or two, tweaking the conversion logic to make it as effective as possible. So if you are struggling with the manual steps I blogged about to convert your legacy LDAP EAP/AL/DDG filters into OPATH filter format for…
Alternative UPN Suffixes and New-Mailbox GUI
Someone asked me the other day about how to get additional UPN suffixes listed in the UPN suffix dropdown in New Mailbox GUI wizard. My initial instinct was the obvious: Add some additional AD domains to your forest and they’ll show up. Of course, this is not what this person was really asking… they wanted…
MVP Summit Exchange details
My earlier post about the MVP summit this week didn’t really talk much about the Exchange participation because I didn’t have the numbers. Thanks to Melissa’s post at EHLO, now we have the numbers! Approximately every 12-18 months, Microsoft invites the MVPs to Redmond for the MVP Global Summit. This year over 1700 MVPs will…