Brian Desmond's Blog : Exchange Server

At TechEd Next Week

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:28:31 GMT

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)

Updated Error Code Lookup Tool

Brian Desmond's Blog — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:19:00 GMT

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)

Upgrading my MCSE

Brian Desmond's Blog — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:38:00 GMT

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)

Exchange 2007 SCC Install Error

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:47:00 GMT

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)

Very Cool Outlook Addin

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:09:05 GMT

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)

Dedicated Exchange Sites in Active Directory

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:07:27 GMT

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)

Exchange System Manager Public Folder Errors

Brian Desmond's Blog — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:29:17 GMT

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)

Outlook Junk Mail Reporting Tool

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:02:00 GMT

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)

Exchange 2003 Daylight Savings Time issue

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:38:00 GMT

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)

Backup Exec Exchange 2003 Bug Workaround

Brian Desmond's Blog — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:32:00 GMT

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)

New Look for the Site

Brian Desmond's Blog — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:32:00 GMT

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)

Script to Dump Exchange Mailbox Info to Spreadsheet (CSV)

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:40:00 GMT

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)

Broken Links

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:53:00 GMT

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)

Site Fixed

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:43:00 GMT

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)

Site Move/Upgrade

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:39:00 GMT

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)