Rhoderick Milne

Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download

by Rhoderick Milne

Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB).  This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes.  The issues that I have encountered were due to: Invalid SSL Certificate OAB web.config file Invalid Certificate Installation [...]

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A Quick Tour Of The Microsoft Exchange PST Capture Tool

by Rhoderick Milne

The venerable Personal Storage Table (PST) file has been present in Microsoft Exchange environments for many years.  In some ways its success has lead to its downfall.  With the proliferation of PST files on a network, multiple issues are introduced which include: Unauthorised data removal – users may export data to PST and remove the [...]

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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 – What You Need To Know

by Rhoderick Milne

The Exchange team recently released SP2 for Exchange 2010 over on the Exchange team blog, and I wanted to use this blog entry to provide links to all the relevant content for SP2 and to raise awareness of some specific issues so that these will not negatively impact your deployments. You may have heard of [...]

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Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell (Part 2)

by Rhoderick Milne

In part one of this series we looked at some of the basic aspects of the PowerShell environment.  Let’s now look at the underlying mechanics on Exchange 2007 and 2010 servers.  We will need to address some aspects separately due to the different mechanisms that are used  between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Let’s kick [...]

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What Everyone Should Know About Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover

by Rhoderick Milne

In the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 world and below, those administrators looking to automate and control the behaviour of MAPI profiles on user’s desktops quickly became familiar with tools like: ORK (Office Resource Kit) .PRF Files .OPS files (from the Office Profile wizard) PROFGEN PRFPATCH ExProfRe For a refresher on such joys  of .PRF files [...]

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How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell

by Rhoderick Milne

As a Microsoft Exchange Server focused Premier Field Engineer I spend a considerable amount of my time with customers at their work place and also when they attend training courses and workshops that I deliver. Naturally people want to talk and learn about the cool new features in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, which is [...]

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