Upgrade Email Address Policies During Exchange 2007 Migration
How to upgrade Email Address Policies to Exchange 2007 OPath format using Set-EmailAddressPolicy.
September 30, 2009
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Removing Routing Group Connectors During Exchange 2007 Migration
How to remove all legacy Routing Group Connectors during an Exchange Server 2007 transition.
September 21, 2009
Move the Offline Address Book from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
Here is a simple Exchange Management Shell command that will move all of your Offline Address Books from the Exchange 2003 OAB generation server to an Exchange 2007 OAB generation server.
September 14, 2009
Exporting Email Addresses Before Mailbox Migrations
How to export a list of all the SMTP addresses assigned to mailbox users in the Exchange organization.
September 5, 2009
Exchange Server 2007 Transition Script
Every time I do an Exchange 2000/2003 to Exchange 2007 transition I have to run the same shell commands at the end to upgrade the default Email Address Policy, Address Lists, and Global Address List. So I wrote this script to do it automatically. To use the script copy this code into Notepad and save […]
February 6, 2009
EMS – Exchange 2007 Public Folder item count
With a simple Exchange Management Shell command you can display a list of your public folders and the item count for each one. All you need to do is pipe Get-PublicFolder into Get-PublicFolderStatistics like this: [PS] C:\>Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Get-PublicFolderStatistics
July 29, 2008
Enable/disable Exchange Server 2007 circular logging
When planning a mailbox migration to Exchange Server 2007 you should consider the amount of transaction logging that will be generated by the move. In low risk environments circular logging can be used to avoid disk space problems caused by the volume of transaction logs generated during bulk mailbox moves. You can query the current […]
July 25, 2008
Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its mailbox migration time!
Project Coconut is underway and the first bit of action is getting the environment up to the pre-requisites for Exchange Server 2007. The existing environment is Active Directory in Windows 2000 Native Mode, with Windows 2000 Server domain controllers, and an Exchange 2000 Server organisation also running on Windows 2000 Server member servers. Part 5 - Its mailbox migration time!
May 6, 2008
Exchange Server 2007 replication problems can lead to backup issues
Exchange Server 2007 has some very useful replication features such as Local Continuous Replication (in RTM and SP1) and Standby Continuous Replication (in SP1 only). These features can provide nice and simple disaster recovery options by replicating your storage group logs and databases to another location, be it another disk/LUN with LCR or another mailbox […]
April 25, 2008
Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server
Project Coconut is underway and the first bit of action is getting the environment up to the pre-requisites for Exchange Server 2007. The existing environment is Active Directory in Windows 2000 Native Mode, with Windows 2000 Server domain controllers, and an Exchange 2000 Server organisation also running on Windows 2000 Server member servers. Part 3 - Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server.
March 31, 2008
EMS – Exchange Server 2007 Message Tracking log file retention
In earlier versions of Exchange Server the Message Tracking log settings were configured through the GUI interface. Now with Exchange Server 2007 you can set the Message Tracking log path in the GUI, but you need to hit the Exchange Management Shell for other settings such as the log retention period. To view the retention […]
March 31, 2008