01 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Autodiscover mysteriously stopped working (Exchange 2010)

TweetI had Autodiscover working for months but recently it just stopped. I’m not sure why, but it may be related to removing the last Exchange 2003 servers from service recently. Maybe some setting got wiped from AD when I uninstalled Exchange 2003 (as per the procedure Microsoft gives). Basically what was happening was that the [...]

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02 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Microsoft Office 2007's awful user interface

TweetOffice 2007 is pretty old by now, and I know much has been written on the move from a “normal” looking app to the “Ribbon” UI. I personally hate the change and feel Microsoft just changed the UI as a way to make the application look “different” so that people will look at it and [...]

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27 July 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Outlook 2007 & Exchange 2010 Autodiscover SSL certificate error annoyance

TweetOne of the more annoying side effects of migrating my mailbox to Exchange 2010 has been the nagging of Outlook 2007′s Autodiscovery feature. Now, every time I start Outlook I get hit with a certificate error for autodiscover.domain.com. Now, autodiscover.domain.com is a CNAME to mail.domain.com, which is the OWA URL for the CAS. The SSL [...]

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16 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

When single-sign-on isn't.

TweetI’m looking into training courses for Exchange 2010, and to add a course to “My Learning,” which I guess is the equivalent of a shopping cart, I had to sign in with my Live.com ID. I have a Live.com ID because you need one to see your MS licenses and download ISOs, etc. It’s not [...]

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12 July 2010 ~ 14 Comments

Exchange 2010 and Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory Identity

TweetI don’t really know why I put this blog up, but generally I write stuff here after I muddle through some ridiculous problem that may have ended up being easily resolved, but whose solution was hard to find. That’s definitely the case with this post. Currently I’m in the middle of moving my company’s email [...]

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03 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Hygiene Management?

TweetI’m installing Exchange 2010 and in the docs it shows a bunch of groups that get created in the AD Schema during the domain prep part. After running prep, I looked to see if the groups were there, and sure enough they were (yay). What caught my eye was that one of the groups is [...]

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29 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Generate a report of Exchange mailbox sizes broken out by department and location

TweetI found a script a few months ago that generated a CSV report of mailbox size, which included the Mailbox Name (usually the user’s name), size in Kbytes, number of items, which server it’s on, etc. This was very helpful, but I wanted to see which department within the company used the most space on [...]

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14 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Moving an Exchange 2003 server to another location with minimal risk and disruption?

TweetSo our Exchange server is located in our office building. This made sense at the time because that’s where the users are. Over time though, this has proved problematic for a few reasons. Primarily, our office is certainly not a datacenter and doesn’t offer the amenities of one – clean, reliable power, and redundant cooling. [...]

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