I came across a problem the other day when using version 6.5.8211.0 of Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 on a server running Good Mobile Messaging. The Good software accesses user mailboxes via the MAPI CDO client. At first the mailbox access was failing horribly with the following errors: 2011-03-11 13:24:33 12:00 ERROR:-2147219707 2011-03-11… Read More »
On and off over the past couple of days I’ve been trialling one of Quest’s cloud services – OnDemand Recovery for AD. The other service that Quest currently offers in the Microsoft space is Log Management, which allows the collection, storage and forensic analysis of Windows Event Log data. For those of you familiar… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about using Quest’s ActiveRoles Quick Connect Express for Exchange 2010 Global Address List synchronisation (GAL Sync). Since then I’ve written a step-by-step guide which will hopefully help others who want to use this very useful freeware utility. You can download the guide (pdf format) here: GAL Sync with ActiveRoles Quick… Read More »
10 years ago today I started ActiveDir.org and the AD discussions mailing list is still going strong! Thanks to everyone who has made it a success over the years and especially to Martin Tuip who helped me get set up and Matty Holland who does all the development work. It makes me feel quite old!
Many moons ago I provided a CSV file containing 200 sample AD user accounts together with instructions on how to use CSVDE to import the accounts into AD. I often use these sample accounts in lab environments and for presentations. I thought it would be fun to write a small powershell script to read the… Read More »
Quest has just released a freeware product called Quick Connect Express for Active Directory. If you’re looking for something that fills the gap left by the (now pensionable) Microsoft Identity Integration Feature Pack, then this may well be it. I’ve spent the last day looking at the product’s capabilities for running Exchange 2010 Global Address… Read More »
If you’ve been working with Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 you will know that there are several pre-requisites to download and install. Once downloaded you end up with a bunch of *.msu (Windows Update) files. If, like me, you have to install them on several servers and don’t like the idea of having to… Read More »
I was recently involved in a task to consolidate an OU structure. Part of this involved moving user objects from one OU to another and re-linking GPOs that were linked to the old OU to the new OU. There were a large number of links and I didn’t fancy adding them manually, so I spent… Read More »
I had always been under the impression that the custom attributes introduced by the Exchange schema extensions were handy for all sorts of things. Earlier this week I discovered that there are hidden dangers when using them for anything other than Exchange-related purposes. When you prepare the schema for Exchange you will see, amongst others,… Read More »
After my Teched break-out session yesterday I was asked if I could share the PS command dictionary file that I used to support my demos. Here it is (right-click Save Target As): CommandDictionary.psd1 For those of you that weren’t there the PS commands mostly relate to working with the AD Recycle Bin feature of Windows… Read More »