How many kilograms is your voicemailbox? Even if you knew, how would you change it? That’s not what this article is about. How would we take a massive number of people’s mailboxes and make changes to them? That’s the ticket, and we’re referring to Exchange Server 2010 hosted mailboxes with Unified Messaging. Yes, some of […]

Moving mailboxes doesn’t have to be difficult  –  all you need is a bag of concrete mix, some water, a good shovel, some good solid posts, and of course the mailboxes in question. Oh wait, am I forgetting something? Right, the wheelbarrow to mix the concrete in and a hacksaw to cut down the old posts. What? That’s […]

As we come to the end of 2009 (already?), it is proper for those of us who support Microsoft-based networks to look back and assess the events of the past year.  2009 has been a challenging year, with the most severe recession in thirty years. Business is down, IT department budgets are under pressure, many […]

Dr. John H. Watson, if not as highly deductive as his friend Sherlock Holmes, was certainly diligent enough to make some significant discoveries. Imagine if your messaging platform could be such a trusty partner and find messages matching certain patterns in the dark of night and save the results for you when you needed them. […]

Just when you thought it was safe to start swimming again in the Exchange certification waters, think again.  Microsoft Learning has released the latest Exchange 2010 certification test  —  70  –  662, TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring. There were certification three tests for Exchange 2007, so I suspect there will be at least three for Exchange 2010 as well. […]

There are so many new Microsoft products that have been released or will be released over the next few weeks.  This fall will see the official release of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, first glimpses of SharePoint 2010 and more.  This is all very exciting  –  lots of new technologies to play with  –  think of […]

A while back, I wrote this post about “Edge Transport is optional… depending on what you want to do” with respect to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 deployments. A reader wrote in the following question: “I am very interested in the actual setup of an Exchange environment sans Edge server. Specifically use with Barracuda, if you […]

Once upon a time, well actually just yesterday, I posted a blog entry about wrapping code or file contents as a Windows PowerShell function. Today, here’s a bit more of the story. First, a little review. Consider the following question: “I’ve typed a lot of great commands in PowerShell just now. How do I save those […]

It was a dark and starlit morning a couple of weeks ago. My students arrived one by one with the usual greetings for the second day of class. The course I was teaching in the Global Knowledge virtual classroom was Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell – more on that later. One of the questions […]

The release of Windows Server 2008 earlier this year marked a long awaited upgrade to the Windows Operating system. For Exchange Server administrators it happened at a precarious moment in time. Many organizations had already deployed Exchange Server 2007 prior to the release of Windows Server 2008. This, of course meant, that they had already […]