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My portable lab hardware
06 May 13 11:24 AM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Recently somebody asked via Twitter my what the make and model is of my laptop, used for Exchange testing environments. Well, 140 characters is not a lot of space so I decided to blog about it. Our company uses Dell laptops as a laptop standard, but other Read More...
Quickly exchange contact info via Windows Phone Vision Search
17 November 12 07:41 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
In case people didn’t know it yet: I’m a Windows Phone fan. I wasn't a pioneer and owner from the very start, but I did get the Lumia 800 a few weeks after it was released. And although it didn’t have all my crucial apps from the start, I was amazed by Read More...
Exchange 2010 calendar publishing URLs are not updated after migrating to Office 365
15 March 12 02:36 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
With Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 it became possible to share your calendar with anyone outside of you organization, depending on the Sharing Policy implemented by your Exchange Administrator. Users can then share their calendar via an obfuscated or an Read More...
Transporter Suite issues while migrating from generic IMAP to Exchange 2007
28 February 12 01:00 AM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Yesterday we encountered an issue during the last sync from an generic IMAP server to an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 server on Windows Server 2008 R2 (there were reasons not to migrate to Exchange 2010 that are beyond the scope of this post ). We used the Read More...
Send As permission on Office 365 not with Add-ADPermission
09 February 12 09:55 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
With an On-Premises Exchange 2010 environment an administrator hands out Send-As permission with the Add-ADPermission cmdlet. But I found out that this doesn’t work in Office 365. In this case a P plan (no Dirsync, Federation or such), you can see the Read More...
Do not move RBAC Role Groups out of the Exchange Security Group OU
07 February 12 12:04 AM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Exchange 2010 has a massively improved admin permission model. It’s called Role Based Access Control and with it you can use predefined roles or make very customized roles if needed. I won’t go into details how it works, for the purpose of this issue Read More...
Granting Mailbox Full Access via Groups and keeping the Automapping feature in Exchange 2010
09 January 12 03:14 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Since Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 a new feature was added for Outlook 2007 and 2010 users, namely Automapping . When a mailbox user has Full Access on another mailbox, it will be automatically mapped in Outlook. No need for the user to go trough menus Read More...
How to confirm a mail has been received in Exchange 2010
02 January 12 12:50 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Recently I was asked to check whether members of a distribution group were receiving mail sent to the group. In this case the group was a member of another distribution group. First thing is to check if all nested groups are mail-enabled distribution Read More...
Handing out only Send-as permissions with Exchange 2010 RBAC
24 November 11 09:45 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
On a project I am currently working on, the management of mail recipients was handed over from the build/migrate team, to the administrators after the mail was migrated from the old mail system to Exchange 2010 We had to restrict the administrators temporarily Read More...
Can’t change OWA password at first logon via Threat Management Gateway?
05 November 11 09:03 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
During the first stages of delivering services of our newly built infrastructure to end-users, we came across an annoying issue. Exchange was the first to be accessed, but specifically through Outlook Web App (OWA). As the users where migrated from eDIR Read More...
Unable to change database path on Exchange 2010 in a DAG?
02 November 11 07:19 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
If you find yourself unable to change the database path of an Exchange 2010 database, check whether it is part of a DAG. See the screenshot for the missing option: If so, you cannot move it. The solution is to remove all copies except the active. Now Read More...
Issues with setting default language for Outlook Web App 2010
20 September 11 03:38 AM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Now and then I get request to implement a default language for Outlook Web Access or App. This meant that users already had their language and regional settings set for OWA. Exchange only asks this the first time the user logs into OWA, this is because Read More...
Forgot your Exchange OWA URL?
21 July 11 02:40 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Even if you have a computer with Outlook 2010, sometimes you want or need to do stuff in Outlook Web App (OWA). For instance, remote wipe your lost ActiveSync smartphone. But what if you do not remember the URL and the servicedesk is closed etc. etc.? Read More...
Setting the Postmaster address in Exchange
14 March 11 02:06 PM | dmstork | 0 Comments   
Somebody asked me today, whether it is a good idea to set the postmaster address in Exchange. Well, short answer: yes! It's is even mandatory according to RFC 5321 section 4.5.1 . For Exchange 2010 you will have to use the Set-TransportConfig cmdlet: Read More...
Migrating from Exchange 2003 and missing recipients in 2010?
21 February 11 06:47 PM | dmstork | 1 Comments   
Recently a colleague of mine migrated the mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. But he noticed something weird, in the Exchange Management Console (2010) the newly migrated users could be seen, but in the Exchange System Manager (2003) he could Read More...
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