Hello folks,
Two nice videos about Exchange Server 2010 updates for Windows Mobile and a demo (Read and Reply State). Check them out:
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Hello folks,
How about if you want to use Journaling feature using Microsoft Online Services? We cannot see such feature using the web admin interface however we can open a ticket to use it.
More information: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/06/19/how-to-request-journaling-for-microsoft-online-services.aspx
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Hello folks,
Astrid McClean demonstrated the ECP (Exchange Control Panel) feature that is coming in Exchange Server 2010 where users, groups, contacts, transport rules can be created through web interface.
In this visit to Astrid, she showed me a few of the new management features in Exchange 2010. There are many administrative tasks that can now be done via a browser - no management console install required.
There are several things users can now do for themselves, like creating and managing distribution groups, again, via a browser interface.
Watch it here: http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/2/8/2/3/ex2010mgmt_edge.wmv
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
This package can help you out to explain some of the Office Communicator, Communications Server Attendant, Live Meeting through a desktop or web application. It is really helpful if you want to improve your end-user knowledge of OCS using self-training. You can also customize the tool to display only the features that you have deployed in your environment.
The Microsoft Unified Communications "How-To" training tool is a Microsoft Silverlight™ 2 application that provides step-by-step instructions for common UC tasks. You can customize the How-To application to your company's needs based on the UC features you've installed. For example, if you have installed all UC features except Communicator Mobile and Communicator Group Chat, you can modify the XML file so that those features and topics do not appear in the interface.
Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aba240af-b5ba-4e14-bc12-c98eae1f6d15
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
There is a training kit available to help us out to deploy OCS 2007 R2, there are information for IT Pros, Help Desk and trainers. There is also some examples of e-mail messages that you can send to your users to improve their experience during the POC process.
The Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit for 2007 R2 provides guidance and resources for IT Pros, HelpDesk, and Trainers to speed adoption and usage of Unified Communications technologies in the enterprise. The kit includes Planning Checklists, Awareness materials, including Poster, Door Hangers, and E-mail samples, and User Education Materials such as Quick Reference Cards, Flash Cards, and links to Web-based Training.
Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb18d016-64f7-4aae-b491-65636a186c1a&displaylang=en
Microsoft Press is giving away two e-books about OCS, as follows:
Enjoy it!
Hello folks,
Last Friday the Exchange Server 2007 management pack for SCOM R2 was released. Check this out:
The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack is designed to monitor Exchange 2007 key health indicators, collect Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and raise alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage Exchange servers and identify issues before they become critical. The Management Pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management.
Note: This Management Pack requires Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Feature Summary
- A number of synthetic transactions ensure the Exchange servers are available and responding in a timely manner. The synthetic transactions are maintenance-mode aware, so that if the target of a transaction is in maintenance mode, the source will not run the transaction, and not alert unnecessarily.
- This Management Pack includes a Management Pack template that provides a wizard-like interface for configuring synthetic transactions against Outlook Web Access (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync, Web Services, POP3, and IMAP.
- This Management Pack includes a Management Pack template that provides a wizard-like interface for configuring mail flow synthetic transactions between agent-managed Exchange 2007 Mailbox servers.
- This Management Pack provides 30+ reports specific to Exchange 2007 that track availability and performance compared to service level objectives. For the list of reports and for more information about the reports, see the Management Pack Guide.
- All the synthetic transactions in this Management Pack use an Operations Manager 2007 R2 hosting feature for Windows PowerShell technology that provides a performance improvement when running synthetic transactions.
- A significant number of rules and monitors that are not actionable or may be noisy are disabled. Note that many of these rules are still in the Management Pack so that you can enable them if necessary.
- Support for monitoring any number of Exchange organizations using a single Operations Manager 2007 management group.
- Full support for Microsoft clustered configurations. For more details, see the Management Pack Guide.
- Discovery of Exchange 2007 server roles is disabled by default, and no Exchange 2007 monitoring is applied by default. This allows you to discover and monitor your servers gradually, as well as tune the Management Pack as you bring more agent-managed Exchange 2007 servers into the Operations Manager environment.
Link to download it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9f3cd3f-9bc0-45cd-b10f-120e937ee4c4&displaylang=en&displaylang=en
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
A new white paper about troubleshooting UM in Exchange Server 2007 was released and blogged in the MSExchangeTeam blog.
Here is the white paper: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=153717
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/06/03/451539.aspx
Hello folks,
RU 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 was released and these are the issues fixed in this new update:
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948856 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948856/ ) Event ID 9667 occurs when you create a new named property on an Exchange Server 2007 server
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952935 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952935/ ) A software update is available that provides the log tracing feature for the LogTruncator tag in Exchange Server 2007
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954639 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954639/ ) Exchange Information Store service stops responding intermittently on an Exchange 2007 server
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955480 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955480/ ) Meeting requests from external senders are displayed as Busy instead of Tentative in an Exchange 2007 environment
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956633 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956633/ ) User calendar permissions are removed after you run the Set-MailboxCalendarSettings cmdlet in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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957640 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957640/ ) The "test-*" command fails when you run it on a site that contains only CAS roles in an Exchange 2007 environment
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958239 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958239/ ) Exchange Server 2007 does not generate an event log message for public folder replication messages even though a property validation exception is thrown and the replications do not occur
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958881 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958881/ ) All HTML content in attachment files of messages is run through an HTML filter when you open or save the attachment by using Outlook Web Access (OWA)
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958938 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958938/ ) The importance attribute of a message is lost when an Exchange 2007 user accesses a high-importance message or a low-importance message from Exchange Server 2007 by using a non-Outlook POP3 client or IMAP4 client
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959510 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959510/ ) A meeting request that is sent from OWA causes a "553 5.0.0 Message-Id header line format error" NDR message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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959748 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959748/ ) An account with the "Exchange View-Only Administrator" permission can review user mailbox contents by using an administrative application in Exchange Server 2007
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959861 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959861/ ) Some clients cannot connect to back-end Exchange Server 2003 IMAP servers after Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 RU2 is applied
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959990 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959990/ ) An error occurs when you try to update a recurring appointment by using an Outlook client that is connected to an Exchange 2007 server
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960178 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960178/ ) You receive an NDR when you send an e-mail using OWA Premium and the ANR cache if the Exchange organization name has more than one space
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960354 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960354/ ) Edge Attachment Filtering does not honor the ExceptionConnectors value in Exchange Server 2007
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960367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960367/ ) Error message when you run the Export-Mailbox command on a folder that has more than 5000 items in Exchange 2007: "-1056749164"
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960495 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960495/ ) The Information Store service crashes continuously on an Exchange Server 2007 server
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960633 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960633/ ) The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on an Exchange Server 2007 that has the mailbox server role installed
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960703 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960703/ ) Extended characters are replaced by question marks when you send an e-mail message that contains extended ASCII characters by using an IMAP4 client in Exchange 2007
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960775 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960775/ ) You receive a "Message too large for this recipient" NDR that has the original message attached after you restrict the Maximum Message Send Size value in Exchange Server 2007
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960869 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960869/ ) A queue that has multiple connections cannot enter a Retry state in Exchange Server 2007
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961152 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961152/ ) The Exchange information store service (Store.exe process) crashes intermittently when you migrate user data from Lotus Notes to Exchange Server 2007
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961347 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961347/ ) Error message when you export an Exchange 2007 mailbox to a .pst file and a filter is defined: "Export-Mailbox : Error was found for <username> (<SMTP address>)"
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961443 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961443/ ) Users cannot use Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2007 to open an address book
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961524 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961524/ ) Some journal messages are stuck in the Submission queue in Exchange Server 2007
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961606 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961606/ ) After you apply Rollup Update 5 for Exchange Server 2007 S961606, Outlook Web Access users find the font size of plain text messages is extremely small when they use some third-party Web browsers
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961693 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961693/ ) Japanese (1 byte Kana) characters in the subject and display name are corrupted when you try to reply or forward task requests or calendar items in Outlook client
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962235 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962235/ ) The date and time information for a "Follow Up" flag is missing if an Exchange 2007 user sends a message to an external recipient
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966535 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/966535/ ) Duplicate messages are sent to an external recipient if the recipient is included in multiple distribution lists in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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967038 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967038/ ) Many log entries are generated in Exchange Server 2007 if you turn on the Exchange log to audit the logons that do not use the primary account for shared resource mailboxes
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967097 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967097/ ) Users may receive duplicate calendar items for the updated instance on mobile devices
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967109 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967109/ ) A delegate cannot accept a meeting request for an online meeting in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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967255 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967255/ ) Only the tracing information of the last user is logged when you configure Exchange Server 2007 to trace multiple users at the same time
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968310 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968310/ ) Many log entries are generated on an Exchange Server 2007 computer when you enable the Exchange log to audit user logons that do not use the primary account for their mailbox
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968352 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968352/ ) The W3wp.exe process crashes when you use the Italian version of the spelling checker on a message in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007
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968589 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968589/ ) The managed policy does not work if the ptagProvisionedFid attribute is missing in Exchange Server 2007
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968673 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968673/ ) The EdgeTransport.exe file of Exchange 2007 servers crashes continuously and Event ID 10003 and Event ID 5000 occur
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968745 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968745/ ) Incomplete tasks show in the Complete tasks view in OWA 2007 in an Exchange 2007 environment
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968966 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968966/ ) Many log entries are generated in Exchange Server 2007 if you turn on the Exchange log to audit administrator logons that do not use the primary account for mailboxes
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969690 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969690/ ) Unresolved sender for delivery status notifications after applying update rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
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970687 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970687/ ) A search operation in Outlook does not return a correct result if there is a corrupted HTML message in the target folder in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1f5c8b2-c4f2-4eba-849b-e464d4f2869c
More information about the RU 8: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968012
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
Exchange Server 2010 has tons of new features and using the new permission model RBAC (Role Based Access Control) we can assing a regular user to do legal search on the users' mailboxes. In this post I'm going over this process in the Exchange Server 2010 Beta, our scenario is that we want to use a Mail Enabled Security Group called Legal Group and all users that belong to this group will have the ability to do a search in our Exchange Organization.
Okay, our user responsible to do the legal search is called Auditor, and we need to add him into our Legal Group that we have just created. As soon as we have these steps done, we can assign the DiscoveryManagement role to that group using the following cmdlet:
Now, the Auditor user can run /ECP">https://<cas-server>/ECP, and in the dropdown list (Select what to manage) make sure that My Organization is selected and you you will see on the left site the item Reporting, as demonstrated in the figure below.
Permissions done! Time to create a query to demonstrate the feature. Our legal team is searching for the word gremio (which is the best soccer team in the world! :) If you want to know what I'm talking about, you can check http://www.gremio.net/home/Default.aspx?language=1) and we are going to configure some options in our search.
During the search creation process we have 6 main sections (Keywords, Messages to and From Specific E-mail Addresses, Date Range, Mailboxes to Search and Search Name and Storage Location) and we can play with them to get better results based in all those criterias.
The Keywords, Messages To and From Specific E-mail Addresses, and Date Range sections can be seen in the figure below. Basically, the keywork will be the best soccer team of the world (gremio) and we are not going to speciy who send or receive the message, and we are not going to customize date range for our search.
In Mailbox to Search section we can select all mailboxes or a specific set of mailboxes. Finally, in the Search Name and Storage Location section, we are going to define the rule name and which mailbox will receive the results, we can also configure the search to send a message as soon as it finishes the process. To conclude the process click on Save.
We can see that the status still in progress. Let's wait for the results..
Okay, done! We can see that we have some issues, it happened because the mailbox store wasn't available during the search process.
Let's check the results. Let's log on as Audit user, and we can see that our search name has a folder in the root of our mailbox, and its subfolders represents each mailbox where that string was found. Using some of the new features of OWA, we can see the conversation thread. Isn't cool?
ECP is a really nice interface but sometimes the admin wants to do the process using the well-known PowerShell and we can accomplish the same tasks using Get-MailboxSearch, New-MailboxSearch, Start-MailboxSearch, Stop-MailboxSearch and Remove-MailboxSearch cmdlets. Using those cmdlets we can create the same query that we have just created using ECP interface, also we can some extra options, such as: use the archive, search the dumpster.
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
A new feature that we will be found on Service Pack 2 of Exchange Server 2007 is the ability to protect Exchange data using the Windows Server 2008 backup utility.
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx
Hello Folks,
MSexchangeTeam announced here in TechED 2009 and also in their blog about the Service Pack 2 release of the product, as follows:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. Exchange Server 2007 is the foundation for a dynamic and holistic unified communications experience, and has been designed to meet the challenges and address the messaging needs of today's businesses. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010, which is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. A public beta of Exchange Server 2010 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010.
Customer Benefits
Key new features of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 unveiled today include:
- Enhanced Auditing - New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing process and makes review of audited events easier by segregating audited events in a dedicated location.
- Exchange Volume Snapshot Backup Functionality - A new backup plug-in has been added to the product that will enable customers to create Exchange backups when a backup is invoked through the Windows Server 2008 Backup tool. Exchange Server 2007 didn't have this capability on Windows Server 2008 and additional solutions were required to perform this task.
- Dynamic Active Directory Schema Update and Validation - The dynamic AD schema update and validation feature allows for future schema updates to be dynamic deployed as well as proactively preventing conflicts whenever a new property is added to the AD schema. Once this capability is deployed it will enable easier management of future schema updates and will prevent support issues when adding properties that don't exist in the AD schema.
- Public Folder Quota Management - SP2 enables a consistent way to manage quotas by improving the current PowerShell cmdlets to perform quota management tasks.
- Centralized Organizational Settings - SP2 introduces new PowerShell option that enable centralized management of many of the Exchange organization settings.
- Named Properties cmdlets - SP2 enables Exchange administrators to monitor their named property usage per database.
- New User Interface for Managing Diagnostic Logging- SP2 enables Exchange administrators to easily configure and manage diagnostic logging from within the Exchange Management Console.
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/11/451281.aspx
Hello folks,
Today we are going over a new administrative feature found in the Exchange Management Console of Exchange Server 2010. In the new version we are able to change more than one user' attributes in a single step like we already have in the Active Directory users and computers tool.
Let's disable the IMAP protocol of a couple of users using Exchange Management Console, let's select the designated users and click on Properties.
Click on Mailbox Features, and when we have <current status> value means that the values will not be changed on the selected mailboxes even though if they are different.
Let's Disable IMAP4 procotol as can be seen on the picture below.
When you click on OK or Apply you will be prompted with a Bulk Edit Summary window containing all settings that will be applied and also the number of recipients that will be affected by that change.
Note:
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
I read about this kb on the Office Communications Server Team Blog (http://communicationsserverteam.com) and the following kb http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968802 has a descriptive list of all updates for OCS 2007 R2 and its use for each server role.
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
Exchange Server 2010 brings a lot of new features, today we will go over some of the new capabilities that we can have in a Disclaimer Transpor Rule rule.
Using Exchange Server 2010 we can add HTML and Active Directory information in a Transport Rule, isn't cool?
To use an Active Directory attribute we have to use double dollar sign before and after the attribute name, for example: %%Company%%, it will bring the Company attribute of the user to the disclaimer. We can also combine HTML and AD attributes, in this post we are using some basic HTML in our disclaimer rule.
Okay, time for a test, let's create a new Transport Rule that adds disclaimer to the messages, and in the disclaimer text, we are going to add the text of the figure below.
Okay, we are using the following attributes: DisplayName, StreetAddress, Company and Phone. My user which is going to send a message has all those attributes filled out as show in the following pictures:
Company's attribute of my user
Street Address and Phone atributes
Now, my user is going to send a message, the user who receives my test message will see a personalized disclaimer based on user's AD attributes.
By the way, if you want to learn how to create a disclaimer transport rule in Exchange Server 2010, you can follow this Exchange Server 2007 article that I wrote last year http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Using-Transport-Rules-Creating-Disclaimers-Exchange-Server-2007.html.
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
Nice posts about a new Exchange Server 2010 feature: Mail tips! You can check this out at: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/04/28/451193.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
Microsoft Canada has a great blog for IT Professionals that is the IT Pro Connection (http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro) and last April 18th Sasha Krsmanovic blogged about a tool that we spoke here in this blog before: Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer and he also added a video about the tool. Good stuff!
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2009/04/18/mvp-s-build-exchange-server-remote-connectivity-analyzer.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
In this new Exchange Server version PowerShell got a lot of new tricks! :) We can use Windows PowerShell Command Log to track down all the cmdlets used in Exchange Management Console in detail. To enable the functionality click on View.. in the Toolbox Actions and click on View Windows PowerShell Command Log...
Let's click on Action menu item and then on Start Command Logging
Time to play with Exchange Management Console, let's navigate on some roles properties, user properties, and so forth. Afterwards, let's go back to View WindowsPowerShell Command Log and we will be able to see all cmdlets performed during our last trip to the Exchange Management Console. For each cmdlet ran in background we can see the status, start and end execution time and the details of that command. We can stop this trace clicking on Action and Stop Command Logging
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
Hello folks,
A nice feature of the new Exchange Server 2010 (former E14) is the Show Exchange Management Shell command which is a small button located on the left corner of Exchange Management Console and we can see that
Let's play with this feature, let's get properties of any user and change any attribute, in our example, we are going to tick the option Hide from Exchange address listand after that we can hit the Show Exchange Management Shell Command button and we will see all changes that will be performed in background when you click OK or Apply buttons. We can also use this feature to figure out attributes names easily.
Here is the cmdlet that will run based in our last change.
We can also navigate across different tabs and change settings, when we click on the Show Exchange Management Shell command we will be able to see all changes that will be performed.
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
The Edge Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides settings for configuring your perimeter network based on information that you provide to the tool.
You can download the from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec4b960c-3fe2-41bd-abdf-ae89cfcb8c6c&displaylang=en
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