Learnings, lessons, gotchas and more from working with Microsoft Exchange
When I’ve migrated mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, I was always asked how quickly the mailboxes moved. It wasn’t the easiest to figure this information out, but I was able to report on it after massaging the data for a while. Exchange 2010 moves store the information differently and you can access that…
My company went through a migration a few years ago of all of our users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. The mailbox moves were insanely time-consuming. Each mailbox has to be taken offline during the migration and that meant many, many nights of sitting up all night staring at progress bars. Exchange 2010 handles…
So, like last year, I’m going to be attending TEC2012. I’m primarily interested in the Exchange and PowerShell modules, but I’ll be adding more information later. For those of you interested, this is one of the premier conferences that I’ve ever had the priviledge to attend. If you can figure a way to attend, please…
Our organization keeps our terminated user mailboxes for a very long time. We keep them active for a number of reasons, but most can be summed up as “we like to have the information available if we need it.” That being said, we don’t really like having the mailboxes on our production (read “high speed/high…
I got a request recently to find out what mailboxes moved and when that took place. I knew that each batch of mailbox moves creates two log files; a plain text log and an xml. Since I knew right where they were, I decided to see what I could do about getting valuable data from…
