At one of my customers we’ve started provisioning all new users directly to Exchange 2010, while the old users are being progressively migrated from Exchange 2007. I modified the provisioning code for Exchange 2010 (basically just adding the msExchHomeServerName attribute as explained in this doc) and new users and mailboxes were created just fine.
What I [...]
I’m still working on clearing up an enormous number of public folders prior to migration to Exchange 2010 (from 2007).
The permissions structure was not well managed so I have been applying a set of standard groups (Read, Update and Change) to each PF, and at the same time removing any rights granted to Everyone and [...]
I am completely sick of the sight of this error:
WARNING: Object \public folder path has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have occurred:
WARNING: The Name property contains leading or trailing whitespace, which must be removed.
So here’s powershell script to find and rename the offending folders. (Why exactly Outlook allows people [...]
Here is a script I wrote to do a simple GAL synchronization between two Exchange organizations. The script finds the mail-enabled users in one domain, and creates contacts for them in the other domain. Existing contacts will also be updated and deleted as needed.
I have just posted this article in the Greatest Hits series on the ILM Technet forum.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/identitylifecyclemanager/thread/f8ad045d-7252-4cd1-a189-d704a8f99129
The article covers various management tasks you can acheive with the standard AD MA, including provisioning and updating of users, mailboxes, contacts and distribution groups. There are quite a few code samples as well.
Quite unexpectedly this week, I got to genuinely use SCR “in anger” when I killed a client’s production Exchange 2007 server by attempting to install SP2 on it (for that whole sorry story see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/713d2b17-f19d-4eaf-8146-c51f59942d08?prof=required). I’ll keep my swearing about SP2 off the page here and focus on the hero of the week – which was SCR!
I just got this error while attempting to provision Exchange 2007 users with ILM 2007 FP1:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MIIServer
Event Category: Server
Event ID: 6801
Date: 15.09.2009
Time: 10:14:02
User: N/A
Computer: ILMSERVER
Description:
The extensible extension returned an unsupported error in MIIS.
The stack trace is:
“Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ExtensionException:
**** ERROR ****
ExternalEmailAddress is mandatory on MailUser.
**** END ERROR ****
**** ERROR ****
The mail [...]
I’ve been doing a bit of work with SCR lately, the point being to achieve a “poor man’s failover” for the mailbox server role. Not everyone needs the immediacy, or the expense, of a cluster, and SCR was a welcome addition to the redundacy capabilities of Exchange 2007 – but I couldn’t find a complete [...]
Just a quick post about this technote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671176.aspx
It claims this bug was fixed in rollup 4, but after struggling with a server with rollup 7 installed for many hours today, I can confirm that this bug is not fixed, and you do need to follow the procedure in the technote.
The bug concerns Outlook Anywhere (what [...]
A while back I proposed a powershell XMA approach to the problem of adding Exchange 2007 mailboxes to existing AD users. This was because my old method of adding an Exchange 2003 mailbox by populating a couple of extra attributes did not seem to work with Exchange 2007.
However, in a recent thread on the Technet [...]
