February 22nd, 2012 by admin
Is your Exchange 2007 log disk full? Exchange log files aren’t supposed to take up too much space, and when admins were building Exchange 2007 servers, disks were measured in Gigabytes, not Terabytes. Many admins just let the logs go to the default location, which is the same location as the databases, and the binaries, and the rest of the operating system. Others created separate volumes for log files since that’s what best practices suggest, but might not have allocated as much space as they find themselves needing. When your Exchange log disk is full, there’s a fairly easy way to address this. In this post, we’ll discuss the Exchange log files and what to do when your Exchange 2007 log disk is full.
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February 13th, 2012 by admin
Exchange 2010 introduces a new permissions model for management known as Role Based Access Control (RBAC). RBAC in Exchange 2010 simplifies the task of breaking out or delegating administrative tasks. Rather than the complicated (and sometimes error prone) method of managing administration through direct ACL edits, RBAC creates a set of roles that users can be assigned based on the tasks they need to perform. RBAC offers both broad and narrow scope, and works well with the administrative responsibilities commonly found within IT organizations. RBAC is not just about admins; it also controls what users can do with their own mailboxes, and distribution group management. Read more…
February 7th, 2012 by admin
Exchange 2010 distribution lists bring several new features and capabilities to email admins and users, with much more functionality than found in previous versions. While distribution lists have been a feature in Exchange since its earliest days, Exchange 2010 distribution lists come with a feature all distribution lists have needed since the lists were first conceived – moderation. The new version of Microsoft’s flagship mail platform also offers end users the functionality to create and maintain their own Exchange 2010 distribution lists, empowering users to help themselves while relieving some of the administrative or helpdesk overhead associated with lists.
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January 30th, 2012 by admin
In an earlier article we looked at the New-MailboxImportRequest command, so in this post we’re going to examine the sibling command New-MailboxExportRequest. It stands to reason that there would be an Export version of this command to enable admins to easily export mailboxes to PST for archiving or discovery purposes, and the New-MailboxExportRequest command has a similar pedigree to the Import command, evolving the Export-Mailbox command and Exmerge before it. It also follows a similar pattern with regards to permissions, defaults, and supporting commands to let you perform an Exchange 2010 Export mailbox to PST operation.
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January 25th, 2012 by admin
With Exchange 2010 SP2 released, it’s past time for you to start putting all those old Exchange 2003 servers out to pasture, and any Exchange 2000 servers still hanging on out of their misery. The process to remove Exchange 2003 (or any other version) is not as simple as formatting the drive, but too often that is exactly what people do, and only then realize that to remove Exchange requires a process not too different from retiring a domain controller. In this post we will look at the process to remove Exchange Server from Active Directory and properly retire an old server, including the last legacy Exchange server your environment.
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