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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 2008 and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:38 AM by Brian Desmond | 2 Comments

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...
Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:47 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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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...
Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 2 Comments
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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...
Posted Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:07 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

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...
Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:29 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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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...
Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:02 PM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments
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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...
Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:38 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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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...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 9:32 PM by Brian Desmond | 12 Comments
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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...
Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:32 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

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...
Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 1:10 PM by Brian Desmond | 6 Comments
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Attachment(s): ExchangeMailboxDumper.zip

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...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:23 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

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...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:13 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

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...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

How to Import/Export Exchange 2003 Sender Filters

Susan Bradley asked me this evening how to go about import/exporting the list of filtered sender domains in Exchange 2003. This will do a merge rather than a replace on import. There are two steps, import and export. Export Open a command prompt, and Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:27 PM by Brian Desmond | 5 Comments
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Weird Exchange System Manager Behavior (and how to restore deleted exchange servers)

Check out http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841516 . This is totally unintuitive. Sufficiently so that all of the back-ends in my exchange org were accidentally nuked. This is definitely not something that could have gotten past the usability testing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:53 AM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments
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