Did you ever want to get mailbox item size in Exchange 2003 based off users in a specific OU and not based off the mailbox server the users reside on? If so you’re in luck :). What I have done is add some code in a VBScript that will gather all the users in an OU and compare those users against a list of mailbox servers that are specified in the script. Most of the script’s content was taken from this site: http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm . Since the script is comparing user... [More]

When preparing Exchange 2007 in an Exchange 2003 or older environment certain commands must to ran to get the environment ready for Exchange 2007.   In larger environments where the AD group and Exchange groups are segmented beware that having an administrator outside the Exchange team run Setup /p will add their account to the Exchange Org admin and an Exchange full administrator. You can safely remove the account used to run setup /p just beware the account will be added to these gro... [More]

When using a self-signed cert along with ActiveSync there are some steps needed to install the certificate on the windows mobile phone. It is important to understand these steps otherwise the phone will not be able to access email from your Exchange servers.   1.        Setup Phone a.       From the welcome screen click Next b.      Enter the correct Time Zone, Date, and Time c.   &... [More]

Here is a quick guide of how to unregister and register a mailbox for Auto Accept.   Note: The cscripts are found on the Exchange server under Program Files\Exchsrvr\Agents\AutoAccept     Unregister the mailboxes   The first thing we need to do is get a list of the AAA mailboxes. To get this list we will run the command below that will output the list to a text file.   cscript registermailbox.vbs /f:name of test file /t:domain\AAA account   ... [More]

Each migration I work on has a different set of requirements to move users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Some customers use the Exchange Manager Console to move users, which works fine. My latest customer asked me to help them move mailboxes based on users in a specific OU. So I created a powershell command that will export the alias and database for accounts that reside in a specific OU. Once we had the output file we could pipe the CSV file (with a couple modifications) into our move ma... [More]