For the enterprise sys admin by the enterprise sys admin
12
Jan
I saw this issue again today. Outlook 2007 & 2010 were prompting for username and password at startup and randomly during use. I’ve used this fix a couple of times now. In IIS Manager navigate to the website that contains your Exchange Virtual Directories (In Exchange 2007 this is Default website, in SBS2008 this is [...]
Tags: authentication, credentials, Exchange 2007, IIS, kernel mode, outlook, password, username
12
Mar
There is a fantastic script on Kurtdepauw’s blog (http://kurtdepauw.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/dbbalancer-load-balance-your-exchange-mailbox-databases/) to assist in evenly balancing your Exchange 2007 databases so they are of similar size. I have customized it slightly and highlight the 2 lines below as useful modifications: Line 78 – added ‘| Where-Object {$_.Name -notlike “Archive Storage Group”}’ – this is very useful if [...]
Tags: automate, balance, database, dbbalancer, Exchange 2007, mailboxes, move mailbox, powershell, script
24
Feb
This PowerShell script queries the defined Exchange 2007 server and emails in HTML format the top 25 biggest mailboxes to the defined receipents. Simply create a scheduled task and you can have a automated weekly report: # Name: top25.ps1 # Purpose: Report on the 25 largest mailboxes on an Exchange server and email this report [...]
Tags: biggest mailboxes, Exchange 2007, powershell, top 25 users
12
Feb
To run a Exchange 2007 Powershell script as a scheduled task you need to call the Exchange Shell as part of the command eg: powershell -psconsolefile “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\bin\exshell.psc1″ -command “& ‘your script.ps1′ “
Tags: Exchange 2007, powershell, Scheduled Task
10
Feb
Powershell and Exchange 2007 allow for setting user mailbox limits (including warning and send / receive restrictions) based on Active Directory Group Membership. For example, you can create a Powershell script that sets a 1GB mailbox limit for all users in the ‘Exchange Mailbox 1GB Storage Limit’ Active Directory Group. Schedule this script to automatically [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, groups, mailbox limits
4
Feb
Whilst recently installing the Hub Transport role of Exchange 2007 SP1, the installation failed because it could not start the OpsMan server (it was disabled, another story). After enabling the service I went to reinstall the role and had the error shown below, indicated that I needed to perform the “BuildToBuildUpgrade” action. After checking out [...]
Tags: BuildToBuildUpgrade, Exchange 2007, OpsMgr