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The limits of unlimited mailboxes

by Martin Coetzer 14 August 2012 Exchange

Introduction Exchange 2007 and 2010 dramatically improved the ability for IT departments to provide mailboxes as large as 10GB or more for users. There is tremendous value for information workers in having a large mailbox, particularly with respect to productivity. Whether that means a 10GB, 20GB or larger mailbox, many organizations will want to impose [...]

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Learn about Exchange 2013 at Information Worker

by Nicolas Blank 25 July 2012 Exchange

Tomorrow night I will be showing off the community preview edition of Exchange 2013. We’ll expand on new Architectures, features and of course a live demo of Exchange 2013. While Information Worker sessions are community driven, some of the new areas we hope to cover include: Architectural changes Co-existence Migration Options The new admin interface  [...]

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Interview With Mike Pfeiffer–author of Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Nicolas Blank 3 July 2012 Exchange

A little while ago we reviewed Mike Pfeiffer’s book “Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook”. It’s our pleasure to present an interview with Mike, about himself, his book and his views on PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0. If you have any more questions for Mike, please use the comments section under the article and we’ll make sure to [...]

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Lepide Exchange Manager Review

by Nicolas Blank 26 June 2012 Exchange

Lepide Exchange Manager (LEM) was a pleasant surprise when it crossed my desk. LEM allows for the recovery of mail from a variety of sources into EML’s, MSG’s PST’s or online mailboxes. While this kind of product certainly isn’t new, the simplicity and speed of LEM coupled with a common sense approach to its user [...]

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Information Worker Cape Town Community Night–28 June 2012

by Marlon Duminy 16 June 2012 Exchange

ITProAfrica and Information Worker is bringing you a collaborative effort in the form of another Community Night on Thursday 28 June 2012. The session starts at 17:00 at the Microsoft  SA offices in Mowbray, Cape Town.  The agenda will feature 3 concurrent tracks, so you’re bound to find a topic that’ll interest you.  SharePoint Technical [...]

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How to migrate just about anything

by Nicolas Blank 9 February 2012 Anouncements

I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, [...]

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Using the Exchange Management Shell from C#

by Hannes de Jager 15 November 2011 Exchange

I’m wanting to build on my previous post titled “Using PowerShell from managed code” to show how to invoke the Exchange 2010 Management Shell from managed code. Since Exchange 2007, the primary management tool for Exchange is the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The EMS is really just a PowerShell session with Exchange specific extensions loaded. [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 and PowerShell Remoting

by Nicolas Blank 27 September 2011 Exchange

Today we have another guest blog post, this time by Bhargav Shukla. Bhargav is passionate about many things, including Exchange and PowerShell, so I’ll allow him to introduce himself and afterwards we’ll get on with the post.   Bhargav Shukla is a Sr. Premier Field Engineer – Unified Communications with primary focus on Exchange Server [...]

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Scripting Diskpart with PowerShell

by Martin Coetzer 22 September 2011 Exchange

On my projects I often require many mailbox databases on the Exchange mailbox servers when I do my designs. With many databases I typically also require many volumes to host them on the servers. Creating many volumes is not fun and a very laborious task. So I would naturally look at ways to script this [...]

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Using PowerShell to Bulk Create Exchange users with unique passwords

by Nicolas Blank 20 September 2011 Exchange

There’s a number of articles which detail how to create an Exchange user from a CSV file using Exchange Management Shell, however most of them harvest a password at runtime by prompting the user to type in credentials. The password is then set for all users. However, what if your users all need to have [...]

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