Exchange 2007/2010: New update rollups published

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The update RollUp 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 has been released. The update can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=6b2fb2d9-df78-4cef-8ea3-2a913a89ac4a A list with the included fixes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661854 Furthermore the update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 has been released, this rollup can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=51d1079c-b5e2-418d-9431-0e556917c5de and also ... Read more

New version of Exchange Reporter ready

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The new version 0.8 of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Many thanks to Gerd, Jürgen and Marcel for pointing out some bugs. The changes can be found in the ChangeLog. Go to the page here Unfortunately, there is still the problem that the sorting of the weekdays in the bar charts for the mail statistics is mixed up. I am working ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Exchange Reporter online!

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In my spare time I have dedicated myself to a new project, the "Exchange Reporter". This is a Powershell script that creates a weekly report and sends it by e-mail. The report contains the following data: -number of sent mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -number of received mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -received/sent mails per weekday ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Create room and device mailboxes with shared calendars

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Resource mailboxes are a great thing. Meeting rooms and devices can be easily invited to an appointment. Resource mailboxes manage your calendars independently and automatically accept or reject bookings if the resource is already occupied. The administrator can control how long a resource can be booked. To get a quick overview of the utilization ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Count active users

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Mike Pfeiffer has written a nice function for counting active Exchange users. This helped me a lot today, here is the entire article: http://www.mikepfeiffer.net/2011/04/determine-the-number-of-active-users-on-exchange-2010-client-access-servers-with-powershell/ Many thanks at this point.

Exchange 2010: Test Outlook WebServices error

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The CMDlet "Test-OutlookWebServices" is useful for detecting configuration problems, but unfortunately the CMDlet is a little bit bitchy until it runs J This error usually occurs when running Test-OutlookWebServices: WARNING: Unexpected error. A Watson image is generated: The mailbox was not found. Mailbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'.. The mailbox was not found. Inbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'. + CategoryInfo ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Count the number of messages sent or received

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I am often asked why it is not possible to query the number of received or sent messages, I have even come across a Powershell script that counts the messages in a cumbersome way. But there is an easier way: Count sent messages on day X: (Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03.10.2012 00:00:00" -End "03.10.2012 23:59:00" -EventId SEND).count Received messages on ... Read more