Category Archives: Exchange

PowerShell: Drive Space Info from multiple systems

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Nerd

With PowerShell 2 came Powershell remoting and jobs, both of which are REALLY cool!  I’m going to show you two ways to get drive space info from multiple systems, first with a normal foreach loop, and then with remoting (which … Continue reading →

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Exchange PowerShell Script: Get Mailbox Count by Database

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Nerd

  Here’s a PowerShell script that does a quick count of mailboxes on each database of a server, or all servers – depending if you specify the server name as a script parameter. ** Updated:  I made some improvements to … Continue reading →

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Manage Exchange Certificates with a free GUI

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Nerd

Managing Exchange 2007 certificates form powershell can sometimes be confusing.  U-B Tech has released a free tool that allows Exchange Administrators to manage certificates from a GUI.  The Certificate Manager for Exchange Server 2007 enables administrators to do: Manage your … Continue reading →

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Why it’s a bad idea to send large email attachments

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Nerd

The Google Operating System Blog has a great post explaining why it’s not a good idea to send large attachments: People who demand large message size limits rarely understand the limitations of the email transmission.  Because of the MIME encoding … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2007 SP2 is out.

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Nerd

OK all you admins, put in that Change Request, and get installing!  For an overview of the new features that are available in Exchange Server 2007 SP2, see “What’s New in Exchange Server 2007 SP2″. [ Exchange 2007 SP2 ]

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Exchange 2010 RC is Available!

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Nerd

Just heard from my friend Scott @ MS that the RC is available for download!  It’s been posted on the Exchange Blog here:  http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/08/17/451974.aspx

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Exchange 2007 CCR – Move File Share Witness

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Nerd

Sometimes it is necessary to move the Exchange 2007 CCR’s File Share Witness.  This is easily done with the command prompt: cluster CLUSTERNAME resource “Majority Node Set” /priv MNSFileShare=\\server\share cluster CLUSTERNAME group “Cluster Group” /move cluster CLUSTERNAME group “Cluster Group” … Continue reading →

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