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,…
Over the weekend, I’ve been working on incorporating the many suggestions for improving the Exchange Environment Report script, so a big thanks to everyone who’s found the script useful, found additional uses, reported bugs and suggested additional information that would be useful. The major new feature with this version is full support for Exchange 2007-only…
Just a quick post for Saturday. If you’d like to check your OAB sizes, here’s a quick script that allows you to do so quickly and easily. This could be useful to keep track of the space used over time, check all OAB replicas are the same size or to quickly check that the sizes…
If you’re not using Exchange Server 2010 yet, then you might wonder if you can take advantage of some of the newer features available in Outlook 2010. While mailtips, personal archives and automatic mailbox mappings aren’t possible, you can make use of the GAL photo feature. It’s fairly painless to enable this and the setup…
Mailbox access rights in Exchange are easy to assign, however managing them can be a bit of a pain, especially if they are assigned on a per-user basis, or assigned when troubleshooting issues for a user. What would be really useful is the ability to quickly generate a report against a subset of users to…