In this post I cover the steps on how to enable Send As permissions for a security group that is mail-enabled. Since you want to limit the amount of security groups your users are members of, we will walk through the steps of allowing the members of a mail enabled security group to have Send As permissions for the group. Note: You need to make the group a security group to allow members send as permission using the steps below but, in most cases mail-enabled groups should be distribution gro... [More]

The more I work with PowerShell the more impressed I am with how useful of a tool it is to manage Exchange. In this blog I want to illustrate how easy it is to pull Public Folder data from your Exchange environment and export that data into a HTML format.  I think in every environment I have ever worked in or supported, Public Folders have grown out of control. This causes organizations to have to back up and replicate old and irrelevant data. Most administrators ignore cleaning up Public F... [More]

One of the worst things about Exchange is dealing with public folders. Has many of you know sometimes you will come into a situation where you need to delete a Public Folder from ADSIEdit. I have been working with Exchange for a long time and have had the opportunity to work in some large and very complex environments and situations but, to this day nothing gets my heart racing like messing around with Public Folders in ADSIEdit. I have put together a lab to show you some of the steps needed to ... [More]

When opening the properties of a mail-enabled Public Folder you get the error message, The mail proxy for this folder cannot be found. This may be due to replication delays. The mail enabled pages will not be shown. ID no: c1038a21. There are a couple reasons behind why this issues is being generated. I put together some common troubleshooting steps that might help resolve this issue for you.   Here are some of the more common troubleshooting steps: 1. Make sure the MESO contai... [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]

After patching a box or installing new software in an environment it is important to ensure your environment returns to a stable state. Most of the time, this sheet or something similar should be used when testing changes or updates. To ensure an change or update doesn't affect your production environment it is always recommended to use a development lab environment before rolling any changes into production. Please feel free to add additional information to this spreadsheet. &nbs... [More]

Don’t you hate when you have large distribution groups in your environment with enabled and disabled accounts as members and when you send email messages to the account NDRs are sent throughout the environment. As may or may not know, there are options in Exchange on how to handle NDRs for distribution groups. My issue is with the options provided by Exchange, for example enabling certain features against a DG could remove valid NDRs or create a lot of false positives. To combat this probl... [More]