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Tag: Exchange 2010 SP1

  • The simple EWS Exchange Email Client

    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 Glen’s blog). I like this code a lot because it…

  • The myth surrounding the use of ESEUTIL to rebuild databases

    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. ESEUTIL is a blunt instrument that was badly needed in…

  • Connecting to Exchange 2010 with PowerShell

    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 Management must be installed on the workstation before you can…

  • The very useful ExFolders utility

    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 the interface that programmers would use to access data in…

  • Granting write permission for calendar sharing with OWA 2010

    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 This Calendar. You’ll then be able to select the user(s)…

  • Accessing Exchange 2010 mailbox move history data

    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 its configuration file (MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config), which is kept in the Exchange…

  • Extracting the Exchange 2010 version number for a server

    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 information that’s stored on the server itself or you can…

  • Why bother with Outlook 2003?

    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 the access enjoyed by many users enjoy as they connect…

  • Making client connection settings available to ECP

    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 protocols so that they can connect to Exchange. Users need…

  • The remarkable disconnect between Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007

    *** 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 and introduces some new features such as block-level replication within…