Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

RTM of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (SP1) Inside Out

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Tony Redmond

I see from the Microsoft Press blog that my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book, also available at Amazon.co.uk and other fine booksellers, has now been Released To Manufacturing (RTM’d). RTM is a term that is normally applied to … Continue reading →

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Arrest the “Reply All” scourge!

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Today, Microsoft Research published an interesting add-in that works with both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 to help suppress the awful mess that users can get themselves into with the ‘Reply All’ button. As you probably know, “reply all” works … Continue reading →

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Replacing missing RBAC roles

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Tony Redmond

There are reported instances where some RBAC roles “disappear” during the upgrade from Exchange 2010 RTM to Exchange 2010 SP1. Normally the symptom of this problem is when a user who is a member of the Organization Management role group … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 problems due to insufficient access to Active Directory

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Like every version since Exchange 2000, Exchange 2010 has a huge dependency on Active Directory. Essentially, if you don’t deploy and manage Active Directory in the right way, you have little or no chance of being successful with an Exchange … Continue reading →

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On email conversations

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Tony Redmond

The email gods have spoken and Google has listened: Gmail now allows you to turn off conversation mode and display items in folders in the same way that clients have done since the year dot. The announcement was made on … Continue reading →

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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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