Tag Archives: Exchange 2010 SP1

The simple EWS Exchange Email Client

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Fellow MVP Glen Scales has created a really nice example of the power of Exchange Web Services (EWS) to build an Exchange 2010 email client that you can run through a PowerShell script (for more details of the script, see … Continue reading →

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The myth surrounding the use of ESEUTIL to rebuild databases

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Some people still believe that it is a good thing to run the ESEUTIL utility to defragment or rebuild an Exchange database. I can’t see why this myth persists, so here’s an attempt to drive a stake into its heart. … Continue reading →

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Connecting to Exchange 2010 with PowerShell

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Tony Redmond

One of Microsoft’s goals for Exchange 2010 is to provide administrators with the ability to manage servers from workstations without requiring the installation of the Exchange 2010 management components. Obviously some pre-requisites exist in that PowerShell 2.0 and Windows Remote … Continue reading →

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The very useful ExFolders utility

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Amongst the features deprecated (others would say “amputated”) from Exchange 2010 is support for the WebDAV (or just plain “DAV”) interface. Exchange 2000 was the first version to support WebDAV and at the time, it seemed that WebDAV would become … Continue reading →

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Granting write permission for calendar sharing with OWA 2010

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Tony Redmond

The calendar sharing feature introduced in Outlook Web App 2010 (OWA) allows a user to grant access to their calendar to another user. To access the option, click on the Share option when in the Calendar and then on Share … Continue reading →

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Accessing Exchange 2010 mailbox move history data

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Tony Redmond

By default, the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) keeps the last two logs for moves performed on a mailbox.  Each log occupies approximately 300KB and, if desired, you can increase the number of logs that MRS keeps by editing … Continue reading →

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Extracting the Exchange 2010 version number for a server

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Tony Redmond

I was asked me the other day what the best method is to retrieve information about the build version for Exchange 2010 that’s installed on a server. There are two ways of approaching the problem. You can either fetch the … Continue reading →

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Why bother with Outlook 2003?

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Tony Redmond

When Microsoft released Outlook 2003 in October 2003 (The history of Outlook is a good link to the history of Outlook), it marked several breakthroughs for Exchange clients. First, Outlook 2003 introduced RPC over HTTP and laid the foundation of … Continue reading →

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Making client connection settings available to ECP

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Tony Redmond

The “Account Information” page of the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) contains a pointer to “Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access…” The intention is to provide users with the information that they need to input into clients that use these … Continue reading →

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The remarkable disconnect between Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Tony Redmond

*** See note about December 2010 cumulative update for Office 2007 at the end of this post. The recent release of Exchange 2010 SP1 is good news for the Exchange community because it improves the overall quality of the product … Continue reading →

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