Complete List of Exchange Powershell Cmdlets

I'm often asked "Hey Knightly, how dow you always know about a cmdlet i've not heard of or seen?"...well its easy. They are all listed here, its tedious, but worth spending a couple hours to at least get the high level view of all the cmdlets.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123703.aspx

POP and IMAP on Exchange 07

I get asked this a lot. "I enabled the POP and IMAP services on my CAS server, but POP and IMAP don't work, what's wrong?"

Well, nothing is wrong there are just a few more steps. 1st, you may need to configure your POP/IMAP configuration settings. Mainly most people have to change the authentication type using the command set-popsettings or set-imapsettings ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997154.aspx for set-popsettings...switches are the same for pop-imapsettings)

Also, you have to enable pop or imap for the user mailbox using the set-casmailbox cmdlet. Something like set-casmailbox -identity "new pop user" -popenabled $true . Or, you can get the syntax for that here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125264.aspx

Happy popping and imaping :-)

Installing Certs on your CAS server

If you can, install the certs before you install the CAS role. This way exchange can just pick up and use the pre-installed cert/certs instead of creating self-signed certs which you'll have to go change later to keep owa/activesync/outlook from kicking errors.

4 Great Reasons to License the Enterprise CAL for Exchange 07

1. Exchange Hosted Services. I implemented EHS in August of 07 and since then on average about 90% of my incoming mail is stopped by EHS thereby saving my proccessing time and power of my edge servers. Not to mention an avg of 400mb/day of internet traffic.

2. Forefront Security for Exchange: So i've got EHS scanning with 3 engine types and Forefront scanning with three different engine types. I sleep well at night. Forefront has also been great for attachement blocking and quarantine.

3. Unified Messaging. Gotta get rid of audix ASAP. Can't wait to have voicemail to email implemented. I'm still waiting on our S8700 SIP gateway to start working though :-)

4. Per-User/Per-Distribution List Journaling: The snoops in HR love this feature.

A handy site for recovering deleted items

I, for one, can never remember how to pull PF info from the dumpster. Handy site:
http://www.amset.info/outlook/recoverdeleteditems.asp

ATT Tilt and WM6

Wahuu! Wild Card certificate support in mobile 6 and its working great. I gotta say after 3 days I love the tilt. The built in GPS works well with google maps or there is a turn by turn application you can purchase for 10 bux a month. Now if only i could load my favorite golf courses into it.....

Connections days 2 and 3

I just don't know how to pick the right classes to attend I guess. Overall, pretty dissapointed. The Exchange 07 stuff was all pretty 100-200 level while the Server 08 stuff just wasn't impressive. Well, better luck next year.

Connections day 1

Not as good as last year so far, but picking up usefull info here and there. I think the next 2 days of sessions will be a lot better. I'm very excited for server 2008 terminal services and I did learn some helpful stuff with powershell scripting. I'll post again as I write some nifty scripts.