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PFDavAdmin tool (Part 2): Date - Feb 01, 2007; Author - Neil Hobson; What the PFDavAdmin tool is and what it can do for you.
Microsoft Exchange Load Generator: Date - Jan 25, 2007; Author - Marc Grote; How to use the Microsoft Exchange Server Load Generator to simulate multiple MAPI client requests against Exchange Server for testing purposes or Benchmarking.
Using admodify.net to administer and recover Exchange 2003: Date - Jan 23, 2007; Author - Chris Dalby; A look at how to use admodify.net to administer and recover Exchange 2003.
PFDavAdmin tool (Part 1): Date - Jan 18, 2007; Author - Neil Hobson; What the PFDAVAdmin tool is and what it can do for you.
EXINFO tool: Date - Nov 28, 2006; Author - Marc Grote; How to use the ExInfo tool to collect and display Exchange Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2003 information.
Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant: Date - Nov 14, 2006; Author - Marc Grote; How to use the Exchange Server Troubleshooting Assistant version 1.0.
Using the Logparser Utility to Analyze Exchange/IIS Logs: Date - Jun 08, 2006; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to use the Microsoft Logparser Utility to analyze Microsoft Exchange Server/IIS log files.
JetStress Is Your Friend: Date - May 04, 2006; Author - Rui Silva; This article is a quick step-by-step guide for performing a Disk Performance Test with the GUI version of the tool JetStress 2004.
Sending Email without a Client: Date - Mar 02, 2006; Author - Rodney Buike; Sending e-mail is typically done from an e-mail client such as Microsoft Outlook. There may be times when you wish you could send an e-mail message without the need of a client application and thankfully there are a number of ways to accomplish this task.
A look at the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer (EPA) Tool: Date - Feb 09, 2006; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article we’ll take a look at the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool (EPA) which was released as a web release tool a couple of weeks ago.
Exchange 2003 – Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool v1.0 (ExPTA): Date - Dec 06, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to use the new Exchange Server 2003 Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool (ExPTA).
Exchange 2003 - Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool (ExDRA 1.0): Date - Nov 17, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to use the new Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool (ExDRA).
Using the Exchange Dump Utility (ExchDump): Date - Oct 18, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you some information about the small but very helpful tool ExchDump. With the help of ExchDump you can collect a lot of useful information about your Exchange Servers.
A Look at the Exchange Monitor 2003 Tool: Date - Sep 29, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I will show you how, with the help of a little 3rd party tool, you can monitor your Exchange 2003 server as well as the Exchange services running on it. It’s also possible to stop, start and restart services as well as enable and disable them. In addition, you can see the version and build numbers of the Exchange Servers.
Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) Utility Explained: Date - Sep 13, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I’ll introduce you to the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) utility, which can be of great help when troubleshooting Offline Address Book (OAB) generation issues as well as OAB download issues.
The NoMAS Tool: Date - Jul 14, 2005; Author - Neil Hobson; Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) can provide you with a useful tool called NoMAS. In this article I want to cover what the NoMAS tool is and under what circumstances you might want to use it.
Disclaimer Fun: Date - Jul 07, 2005; Author - Rui Silva; These days almost every corporate e-mail has a disclaimer. Companies use them because of legal issues, as an advertising means or maybe because they think messages look nicer with a disclaimer. Since Exchange Server 5.5 Microsoft has provided a way of adding basic disclaimers to outgoing messages. Let’s see how things have evolved since then and what we can do to extend the provided capabilities.
Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 3): Date - Jun 21, 2005; Author - Amit Zinman; The first two parts of my scripting series discussed Exchange users in almost every possible angle. This third part of the series will go over ways for accessing Exchange objects, such as servers, storage groups and databases.
Optimizing your Exchange Server 2003 Deployment using Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0: Date - Jun 02, 2005; Author - Markus Klein; Due to the many different theories about the best practice of configuring a Exchange Server 2003 deployment in an organization, Microsoft tried to give each administrator and consultant an easy way to deploy Exchange using Microsoft’s recommendations on best practices. With release 2.0 of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer, Paul Bowden, the “father” of this tool, has provided a powerful tool for easily configuring and optimizing your Exchange Server environment. In this article you will get a brief description of the features of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0 and how to use it to optimize your configuration.
Using the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) tool: Date - May 05, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I will give you an introduction to Microsoft’s latest Exchange 2003 Server Web Release tool – Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) which was announced on You Had Me at EHLO (aka Exchange team blog) the 7 April 2005. ExMon makes it possible for Exchange Administrators to view, evaluate and gather real-time data about the users in an Exchange environment.
Customizing Mailbox Limit Warnings with the Quota Message Service for Exchange: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I will give you an insight into how you, with the use of the Quota Message Service for Exchange, can customize mailbox quota messages (aka mailbox limit warnings.)
Using SMTPDIAG to Diagnose Exchange 2003 Related SMTP and DNS Problems: Date - Mar 10, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you some information about how to use SMTPDiag. SMTPDiag is a diagnostic tool that is used to determine if Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Domain Name System (DNS) are configured to reliably deliver mail to an external e-mail address.
Adding Events to Multiple Mailboxes using Exmerge: Date - Mar 08, 2005; Author - Amit Zinman; Add a holiday or some other company event to all the calendars without sending a meeting request.
Command Line-based Exchange Management using ExchMbx: Date - Mar 03, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; If you're a relatively experienced Exchange Admin with several years in the field, at one time or another you've probably missed the capability of managing Exchange related tasks via the command line console (CLI), but fear not those days are over now that we have ExchMBX.
Using the Exchange tools ISINTEG and ESEUTIL to Ensure the Health of your Information Store: Date - Feb 24, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you some information on how to use the Exchange tools ISINTEG and ESEUTIL. With the help of ESEUTIL you can defragment your Exchange information store offline, check the integrity of the store and repair the information store in case of emergency. ISINTEG is used to perform some tests on the information stores and to fix some errors.
IMF Managers: Date - Feb 17, 2005; Author - Amit Zinman; An overview of free IMF add-on tools allowing administrator to track which e-mails are blocked, view them, unblock them and more.
Using ADModify to Change Exchange Specific AD User Attributes in Bulk: Date - Feb 08, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I will give you an insight into how you, with the use of ADModify, can modify Exchange attributes on Active Directory (AD) users in bulk. If you’re an Exchange administrator in a relatively large organization you will quickly learn you can’t afford to be without ADModify.
Overview of the Exchange 2003 Resource Kit Tools: Date - Jan 18, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you an overview about the Exchange 2003 Resource Kit Utilities – called “All-in-One Exchange 2003 Tools” which you can download for free from the Microsoft Exchange website.
Simulating Stress for your Exchange 2003 Hardware using LoadSim 2003: Date - Dec 16, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; This article deals with testing a brand new Exchange server hardware in a lab environment by simulating Outlook activity.
Using WinRoute to determine the Routing status of your Exchange organization: Date - Dec 07, 2004; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you some information about how to determine the Routing status of your Exchange organization with the help of the WinRoute tool. WinRoute is a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 tool that you can use to determine the link state routing (LST) information that is known to the routing group master. You can use this tool for troubleshooting Message Routing in Exchange 200x environments.
Designing an Active Directory/Exchange 2003 environment using the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer: Date - Nov 11, 2004; Author - Markus Klein; A lot of companies are willing to implement Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 as their primary messaging and collaboration system. And therefore these companies need an Active Directory implementation. The question then often is: What’s the best way to design an Active Directory environment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003? Within this article we will try to delve a little bit deeper in this designing process itself and will have a look at the best practices for implementation.
Using ExMerge to recover a Single Mailbox or Mailbox Item: Date - Jun 17, 2004; Author - Markus Klein; As already described in one of my last articles about Exchange Server 2003 you do not have to install a second Exchange Server environment in an isolated forest to restore a single mailbox or a single mailbox item. You can use the recovery storage group to restore a mailbox database onto your running Exchange Server 2003. After having done this you now have to extract the mailbox you want to recover using the ExMerge utility.
Email Exploit Detection - A revolutionary way of protecting networks against current and future email attacks: Date - Jul 11, 2002; Author - The Editor; An exploit uses known vulnerabilities in applications or operating systems to execute a program or code; it "exploits" a feature of a program or the operating system for its own use, such as to execute arbitrary machine code, read/write files on the hard disk, or gain illicit access...