Recently on a mailing list I’m a member of, the following question was asked: "What is the best practice or guideline when you create/organize databases in your organization? How do you add/organize users into different databases?" This topic comes up regularly with customers, and it occurred to me that it might be worth putting my…
In February this year I wrote about how to disable the automatic mapping of shared mailboxes in Exchange 2010 SP1, using a custom PowerShell script that “wraps” the Add-MailboxPermission command and after execution, removes the attribute in Active Directory that is used to automatically mount the mailbox in Outlook. With Exchange 2010 SP2 and SP3,…
This is an article I’ve been meaning to write for a long time, however actually finding the answer to the problem has always been bottom of my priority list – primarily as no-one had actually asked me if it was possible. So I was quite glad to be challenged by Mike Crowley a couple of…
Update 16th September – V1.6.1 – Exchange 2016 support and various bug fixes (see here for more information) Update 2nd February – V1.5.8 – Exchange 2013 CU and SP support, HTTPS and CAS array names shown, initial Office 365 Hybrid support (see here for more information) Update 19th January – V1.5.6 – Exchange 2013 support…
In Exchange 2007 SP1 thru to Exchange 2010 RTM, the Export-Mailbox command was the replacement for the once-familiar ExMerge utility when it came to exporting mailboxes to PST files. The main problem with Export-Mailbox for most Exchange administrators is the requirement for Outlook – either on a 32-bit machine with Management Tools for Exchange 2007,…