Desktop (as shortcut) C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -command ". 'C:\Program Files\Exchange Server\V14\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1'; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto" Note: if the Exchange installation folder or drive name is different than the default, you need to change the path accordingly. Upgrading Edge Transport on .. more »

Exchange 2010 features a new resource protection mechanism - user throttling. This feature is designed to limit the amount of resources a single user or application can take up on a . If any of the terminology in this post sounds unfamiliar, please refer to this documentation. We have also changed what happens when users exceed their budget in some .. more »

The 2007 update of the LiveMeeting service began its rollout to production last week.  At this point all new LiveMeeting conference centers will be provisioned on the new version.  This includes trial cc’s, so if you’ve been wondering what LiveMeeting  is all about now’s as good a time to see what we have to offer.   https://tri.. more »

Some of you have noticed that when creating a meeting with the XML-API’s the LiveMeeting service does not send out meeting invitations. People often are confused by the existence of two meeting options, Specifying email addresses in this filed will not result in email being sent. These options are there to allow you to specify the email addresses of.. more »

You have been eagerly waiting, and we have been working hard over the summer to deliver the latest Exchange Server 2010 enhancements as soon as possible. I am extremely happy to announce the availability of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1, ready for download We released the SP1 beta at Tech Ed North America in June. We also shared some of the .. more »

Since the earliest versions of Exchange Server, the (ISInteg) has offered Exchange administrators a way to check mailbox and public folder database integrity. ISInteg checks and fixes Exchange database errors that may prevent the database from mounting, prevent the user from logging on or from receiving, opening or deleting email. Curious to know .. more »

We have received some great feedback and questions from last month's post on Perry Clarke's blog and Geek Out with Perry series of videos on e-mail archiving.  This has been a hot and somewhat controversial topic that comes up often amongst our customers and partners so we wanted to share the latest edition of Geek out with Perry with you. In this n.. more »

In discussions with some of our friends over in the DPM team (System Center Data Protection Manager), we’ve found that there is a rather high incidence of VSS errors in installations where DPM is being used to back up Exchange 2010. Turns out that in many instances, this is because of an incorrect configuration of circular logging on the mailbox da.. more »

Just a quick heads-up that we have published a new Exchange 2010 whitepaper: White Paper: Understanding the Relative Costs of Client Access Server Workloads In Exchange Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff803560(EXCHG.141).aspx Here is what it is about: Estimating your Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server capacity needs is .. more »

As many of you know I review Exchange books for fun (yea... an odd hobby of mine), and I always look forward to new Exchange books coming out. Today it is my pleasure to note that two of our very own TAPs (Siegfried Jagott and Joel Stidley) had a new book coming out that covers Exchange 2010 SP1! You can order it here. I can tell you it's a good .. more »

: Customers using "out of the box" GALSync MA may probably not know how to customize ILM. : Our recommendation on working with ADMT is to rely on the PrepareMoveRequest script to create the local user object for mailbox move, and then use ADMT to migrate SIDHistory and password and merge this into the MEU created by PrepareMoveRequest.ps1 script. : .. more »

Have you ever wondered why, in Exchange 2010, you can create a new mailbox and you don't have to tell Exchange in what mailbox database it should be created? Or had an administrator in one department create a mailbox, and the mailbox is created in a database that their department isn't assigned? If you've answered 'yes' to either of those .. more »

This article begins with a look at how the business logic worked back in the Exchange 2000/2003 days with front-end and back-end servers. Then it talks about the improvements that were delivered with the introduction of the Client Access server role in Exchange 2007. After that it details the new RPC Client Access Service included with Exchange .. more »

Remote mailbox move (a.k.a. cross-forest mailbox move) refers to the process of migrating an Exchange mailbox from one Active Directory forest to another. Exchange 2010 supports remote mailbox moves via the MoveRequest cmdlets. Here are some of the considerations for performing remote mailbox moves on mailboxes which are enabled for Unified .. more »

Why would you ever want throttling policies associated with anything else? I'm glad you asked. There are at least two valid scenarios to consider: Scenario 1 - A machine account: Let's say you write a web site that uses Exchange Impersonation to call into EWS and perform actions on behalf of a user that logged onto your web site. Further assuming .. more »

" is close to quota limit. Current number of named properties: . Quota limit for named properties: . User attempting to create the named property: . Named property GUID: . Named property name/id: " because the number of named properties reached the quota limit (). User attempting to create the named property: . Named property GUID: . Named property .. more »

Wondering what’s new in Exchange Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 ( How do I get ExBPA E14SP1? Since Exchange Server 2007, the Best Practices Analyzer (along with other useful Exchange troubleshooting tools) has been part of the product and installed during Exchange setup. You can find ExBPA and the tools in the ) will not do.. more »

Starting with Exchange Server 2007, we added protection for Exchange data paths to Client Access Servers using In Exchange 2010, we introduced new certificate management interfaces in the Exchange Management Console ( (CSR) to request a certificate signed by a CA with its private key (the private key must be marked as exportable when creating the .. more »

One of the things about Exchange 2010 that many of my customers find very attractive (and I have to agree with them) is the idea of the multi-role or “all-in-one” DAG server. This means having all three of the core Exchange 2010 roles installed on all of the servers in the DAG – Mailbox, Hub Transport and Client Access. There are a lot of reason.. more »

In my post just the other day I provided a link to the new guide covering Exchange publishing via Forefront TMG or UAG. One poster followed up by asking, “How do I set things up when I have both TMG/UAG with a web farm and a hardware load balancer?” It’s a great question, as these days hardware load balancers are becoming commonplace, and trying.. more »