Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

Eight essential aspects influencing the publication of good technical books

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Tony Redmond

A recent remark in a LinkedIn.com forum stated “Please do not use Microsoft Press and “Technical Editing” in the same sentence. Have you ever seen the 1st editions of the Technical books?” I believe that the general thrust of the … Continue reading →

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Odd seeding behavior for an Exchange 2010 database copy

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Tony Redmond

I run a virtual Exchange 2010 environment on my HP Elitebook 8530w laptop (8GB memory, SSD for the VM files). Usually things run along without a hitch but sometimes the USB connection to the SSD experiences a mild panic attack … 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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Auto-tagging in Exchange 2010

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 includes the ability for administrators to define retention policies to control how long items are allowed to remain inside user mailboxes before Exchange will automatically take action to move or remove the items. A retention policy is composed … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 SP1 reaches RTM status

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft declared that Exchange 2010 SP1 had attained a sufficiently high standard of code and features to warrant release to manufacturing (RTM) on Monday, August 23. This decision was reached by the development team “war room” after the customers who … Continue reading →

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Freeing up disk space after Exchange 2010 installations

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Tony Redmond

If the disk where you installed the Exchange 2010 binaries seems a little clogged after the installation, you can relieve some of the pressure by cleaning up files that the Exchange 2010 installation leaves behind after it’s complete. The installation … Continue reading →

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