Archive for month: September, 2012

Exchange 2013 brings with it a new administration method

With Exchange 2007 we were given the Exchange Management Console (EMC), an installed MMC-based GUI console, and Exchange Management Shell (EMS) a command-line PowerShell-based console.  With Exchange 2010 we had the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), a web-based console added to the mix and it was enhanced with Service Pack releases.  It was obvious the goal [...]

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Creating a Dynamic Distribution Group in Exchange 2007

Creating a dynamic distribution group in Exchange 2007 is a little bit different from creating a new distribution group due to the additional conditions that individuals have to meet. Users are added or removed from the dynamic distribution group as they meet or fail to meet those conditions. To create a new distribution group, start [...]

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Exchange 2013 Server Roles: And then there were two

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with server roles since the beginning of their inception.  On the one hand I appreciated the reason for our having 3 distinct roles (Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport) so that we can spread out the CPU load over multiple systems.  Starting with Exchange 2007 these roles were introduced to [...]

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