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#Exchange 2010 & 2007 – Control POP3 Enablement per Mailbox

Last year I wrote a basic control script to manage Exchange 2007 Active Sync enablement.  Recently, I had a need to write an extremely simple POP3 control enablement script.  The main difference is this just set to run in an Exchange 2010 environment utilizing 2010 PowerShell Snapin.  Functionally and logically it’s all the same.  The script is [...]

#PowerShell and WMI to Determine OS Architecture for Automation

I’m in the process of writing some of the more complicated PowerShell code I’ve ever written to automate some laborious tasks at my new job.  The process I generally like to take when writing something like this is to modularize parts/steps of the automation as standalone components to be reused and consumed elsewhere.

Part of [...]

So I Resigned From My Pretty Awesome Job.

On Friday 3/4, I resigned from my current job as IT Systems Architect/Team Lead for our Systems and Messaging group. It was one of the more difficult decisions I’ve made in my ~12 year IT career. It’s hard to leave a company who has treated you well. In 4.5 years with them, I’ve been promoted [...]

#Exchange 2007ActiveSync: Control Which Users Are Enabled…Automagically

Last year when we launched support for Windows Mobile 6.x devices via Exchange ActiveSync, I had a challenge of making sure only approved users were enabled for ActiveSync support. By default in Exchange(all versions), all mailboxes are enabled for ActiveSync, and specifically with Exchange 2007 when the CAS role is installed into the Organization. I [...]

Hay it’s December 31st, time for some New Years Resolutions…

Well.. I run 1920×1200 resolution at home and 3 monitors at 1600×1200 at work… think I will strive for 2560×2048 and 1920×1200 respectively. ok that was lame.

I never make New Years resolutions because I’ve always thought they were pitfalls for failure and most of the time forgotten by January 21st.  However, this year I have some [...]

#PowerShell #Exchange Script for Messaging Tracking Logs Per User Stats

A few months ago I was working on collecting some statistics out of our Exchange environment.  I wanted to take a few samples of user specific message traffic to help with some sizing calculations and just do a sanity check on our existing usage.  I know there are other tools and utilities that exist, but I wanted [...]

#PowerShell Date Countdown Fun

The other day I was trying to figure out how much longer until my anniversary date at work.  I figured I could open my Outlook calendar and start counting, but then I said, I bet this is easier to do in PowerShell!  So I goofed around and came up with the following.  I’m sure you [...]

TechEd 2010 – Day 2 & 3

Just noticed this was never published.  Publishing…..

TechEd thus far has been great.  Meet some really smart people, got a lot of information, and had some fun along the way.

Day 2

I spent much all of the day in Hyper-V related sessions.  I have to say I’m really impressed with the capabilities and performance stats [...]

TechEd 2010 – Day 1

Day 1 was quite the experience.  From the huge amounts of attendees trying to walk, and ultimately coming to a halt, in a 25 foot wide hallway of session conference rooms, to getting to participate on an Exchange round table at the Rustynail with members of Exchange product team.

Sessions

This is my first time [...]