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High item counts - what do you do about it?, Archive v Big Mailboxes, Getting your Exchange 2007 Project Approved, (and the follow up 7 blogs), Recovery Scenarios Part 1, Recovery Scenarios Part 2, Recovery Scenarios Part 3, How quick will DPM backup?, Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication?, Why not stretch CCR?, Backup solutions for Exchange 2007..., Do we actually need to backup Exchange?, SAN v DAS.
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Free Powershell eBook

‘Effective PowerShell: The Free eBook’ from Keith Hill available on Keith Hills’ blog here . Definitely worth a look… Read More...

Posted: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:59 PM by douggowans | 2 Comments

Filed under: Powershell

Now we’ve got loads of items – what do we do about it?

So you’ve identified that high item counts is causing issues with Outlook performance .. but what do you do about it? Well first first find out where it’s an issue. i.e. get message counts for all of your mailboxes and all folders where the item count Read More...

Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:12 AM by douggowans | 4 Comments

Filed under: Performance, Powershell, Outlook

Quick Transport Rule

Quick transport rule to remove the recipient field of an SMTP message header from messages going out across an Edge Transport role server… Not going to win any awards but it’s worth a look if you haven’t tried mucking about with transport rules with Powershell Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:13 AM by douggowans | 0 Comments

Filed under: Transport, Hub Transport, Edge Transport, Powershell

Getting the registry through Powershell..

Just one more quick line to plug into DCM .. (plus a few powershell links which might be useful) Returning a value set in the registry. For example if you optimise the TCPWindowSize in a CCR environment you can use the following in DCM to Read More...

Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:31 AM by douggowans | 0 Comments

Filed under: Powershell, DCM

Technet Events for 2009… {Powershell v2 and OCS etc..}

TechNet Events Live: TechNet Event : Managing Windows Servers with PowerShell V2 Location: London Date: 10 February 2009 TechNet Event: Microsoft Systems Management and understanding the role of System Center Location: Birmingham Date: 12 February 2009 Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:06 PM by douggowans | 0 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, OCS, News, Storage, Powershell

Powershell, DPM and Virtualisation – some great blogs…

Powershell Explore Your [Environment] on the Windows Powershell blog, written by Jeff Snover. The article takes a bit of reading but has a great walk through of using Powershell to invoke the System.Environment .Net class. For example: “ [Datetime]::Today Read More...

Posted: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:15 AM by douggowans | 0 Comments

Filed under: DPM, News, Powershell, DCM

..a few more bits of Powershell to feed into DCM

Following on from my DCM blog last month here are a few more bits of Powershell that can be fed into DCM… Checking Autodatabasemountdial: $server=hostname $cmsobj=Get-MailboxServer | Where-Object { $_.RedundantMachines -contains $server }$cmsname=$cmsobj.name Read More...

Posted: Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:49 AM by douggowans | 0 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Powershell, DCM

Good Powershell book…

Just received a copy of a good Exchange 2007 and Powershell book: ‘Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1’ (Programmer to Programme) by Joezer Cookey-Gam (Author), Brendan Keane (Author), Jeffrey Rosen (Author), Jonathan Read More...

Posted: Monday, December 08, 2008 3:55 PM by douggowans | 2 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Misc, Powershell

Want to check if your Exchange servers are configured how you designed them to be configured?

Then DCM , or Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management to give it it’s full title, could be the way to go… It’s part of the System Centre suite of products [ SCCM ] and it appears to be a really useful bit of software. You effectively Read More...

Posted: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:51 PM by douggowans | 0 Comments