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04 June 2008
At TechEd Next Week

I'll be down in Orlando at TechEd IT Pro next week. I'm working a booth of some fashion in the Technical Learning Center most of the week I'm told, so feel free to drop in and say hello if you're in town as well. Share this post: email... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Personal

29 May 2008
Updated Error Code Lookup Tool

The Microsoft error code lookup tool (which no Windows admin should be without) got updated today: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be596899-7bb8-4208-b7fc-09e02a13696c&displaylang=en&tm . While it says it's for Exchange... Read More...

Filed under: Scripts, IT, Exchange Server, Active Directory

02 April 2008
Upgrading my MCSE

So I have an MCSE: Messaging 2003. Took something like 7 or 8 tests to get that way back when and it's still good. Being the good consultant that I am I decided I'd figure out what I need to do to get whatever the new equivelants are on Windows... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, Vista, Windows 2008

12 January 2008
Exchange 2007 SCC Install Error

Apparently when installing a new Exchange 2007 SCC cluster, you can't give the resource group containing the physical disks the same name as what the cluster virtual name will be. For example if your mailbox virtual server will accessible via shortname... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

25 March 2007
Very Cool Outlook Addin

A few months ago I came across this shareware utility called Anagram. It's a plug-in for Outlook that parses textual contact and appointment information into a new contact or appointment object. I really only use it for contacts, but the basic scenario... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

03 February 2007
Dedicated Exchange Sites in Active Directory

A comment I received on a previous post on sites and subnets in Active Directory was "what benefit(s) does a dedicated Exchange site provide?". There's a couple things to consider here with the advent of Exchange 2007. The first is the great degree of... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, Active Directory

05 December 2006
Exchange System Manager Public Folder Errors

I was working on a customer's Exchange server today when I got presented with a weird error in Exchange System Manager (ESM) while trying ot do some work on their public folder hierarchy. I was first getting this error: --------------------------- Exchange... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

29 October 2006
Outlook Junk Mail Reporting Tool

Microsoft released a little addin for Outlook which you can use to forward junk mail not caught by the builtin filter to them for analysis (and hopefully improving the filter): "The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

29 October 2006
Exchange 2003 Daylight Savings Time issue

October 2006 has 5 Sundays, and this leads to a bug in Exchange 2003 manifesting itself where user's meetings are moved a day ahead. The hotfix (and a bit of info) is available here . Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

16 October 2006
Backup Exec Exchange 2003 Bug Workaround

Backup Exec (10.1 at least) has an annoying (and undocumented) bug when it comes to restoring to an Exchange 2003 Recovery Storage Group. When you go to restore a mail store to a recovery storage group, BE goes along for a couple minutes and then fails... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server

15 September 2006
New Look for the Site

After a couple hours of customization, I activated a new theme for the BrianDesmond.com site. The old look was the same theme I had when I started a blog on weblogs.asp.net in 2003. I felt like it was kind of depressing to look at the old colors - there... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, Active Directory, None of the Above, Personal

03 September 2006
Script to Dump Exchange Mailbox Info to Spreadsheet (CSV)

I found another useful script I wrote last year on my hard drive this evening. It's attached at the bottom of this post. This script will dump quite a bit of useful information about each mailbox on a particular server or set of servers to a CSV file... Read More...

Filed under: Scripts, IT, Exchange Server

15 July 2006
Broken Links

If you find any broken links here, send me an email or leave a comment. I think I caught them all, but the manner in which the software this site runs on makes URLs is rather complex and I don't really understand the config files, so it's pretty entirely... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, dotNet, None of the Above, Personal

15 July 2006
Site Fixed

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, dotNet, None of the Above, Personal, Chicago, MOM

03 December 2005
Site Move/Upgrade

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid... Read More...

Filed under: IT, Exchange Server, dotNet, None of the Above, Personal, Chicago, MOM, SQL2000/Databases, Automated Deployment Services, GotDotNet Feed