I don't know why we see a lot of customers trying to automate Outlook from a service. It’s pretty well documented that it’s a bad idea. Outlook Object Model (OOM) was written for automating Outlook for a user sitting at the box running it. See, Outlook...

I've put together a list of articles which cover common questions on Exchange PowerShell Automation. These links cover issues from starting out to common problems. I hope they help. Please let me know if there are others you see as important. Starting...

There are not many examples on doing doing impersonation for Exchange Powershell and non of the ones I see currently cover a few of the important gotccha’s. So, I put this together and wish to share. Impersonation and Exchange PowerShell: ...

There are many ways to get a list of processes with their PID. Here are a few. tlist: "tlist" is in the debuggers folder and can be used to get the pid of a running process: Helpful tlist commands. · tlist /t - Displays a task tree in which...

Once the symbols and dump are received by the person who will be debugging, they can use the commands below to check for the symbols being loaded in a debugger such as Windbg after the symbol path is set. To do this, go into windbg in the debuggers folder...

Prior to taking a dump on a program, you should be sure that there are matching symbols for the application the dump is being taken on. Large dumps can take many hours to upload to a person for debugging. You can validate symbols against the executable...

Full Dumps: A full dump pretty much gets everything in memory for the application at the time the dump is taken. Because of this, a process taking one gig of memory will likely result in a one gig dump file. · A full dump will have this information...

With Vista, you can create a mini-dump by right clicking on the process in Task Manager. However, user-mode process dump information is not available by using this feature. This feature is not available under Windows 2003 or Windows XP.

When an application crashes, the user may only have Visual Studio on the box. When the crash occurs, the developer may be prompted to see if they wish to debug the appliction. If they can choose Visual Studio, then they can save the dump to a file which...

Adplus from the Debugging Tools can be used to get Hang Dumps. Normally, you want to take at least 2 dumps to so the person debugging can get an idea of where the hang is. Installing Adplus and the Debugging SDK: 1) Go to http://www.microsoft...

ADPlus from the Debugging Tools can be used to get Crash Dumps. ADPlus is a command-line VBScript file which runs a debugger with best-case switches in order to produce a dump file. In a nutshell, the dump file contains the application as it was...

Customers sometime have a misunderstanding of what is covered when supported is provided. So, I’ve put together a link covering common areas for all to read. I would suggest starting with the link below to get an understanding on what is supported to...

I was recently asked this question similar to this: How can we search on unmounted EDB files? Are there any API's that I can use to access the mails in unmounted EDB? There are two answers: “No” and “It’s a bad idea”. Further:...