I spent a few hours today trying to figure out why the AD tools (AD Users & Computer, AD Sites & Services, etc) were not working on an Exchange 2010 server, running on Windows 2008 R2, today. The odd thing was that Exchange was working f ...[Read more]

New post location: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/03/25/script_smallest_db/ I had a client ask me to create a mailbox creation script that would create new mailboxes on the smallest DB in the US.   After doing a bit of research and running into some ...[Read more]

New post location: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/03/15/script_mailbox_reassign/   In some organizations when a user leaves the company or is moved to a new role their existing mailbox needs to be reassigned to their replacement. In other words, th ...[Read more]

New post located: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/03/06/mec-is-back-in-2012/   I first started working with Microsoft Exchange during the beta of 4.0 while at Digital Equipment Corporation in late 1995. My team, PC application support, used it to co ...[Read more]

Also posted on FB Here   I'm looking for someone to mentor & train in the Microsoft Infrastructure area, mainly Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and scripting that lives in the Denver area. I could use a technical assistant for many t ...[Read more]

New post located: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/01/15/exchange_2010_smtp_logs/   Exchange 2007/2010 SMTP log format differs greatly from Exchange 2003, which used IIS for SMTP.  There are now only nine fields in the logs and the last field, data, co ...[Read more]

New post located: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/01/07/count_concurrent_events/   A fellow Exchange MVP contacted me today and asked me, being the Excel wizard that I am, if I could figure out a way to count the number of concurrent calls their phone ...[Read more]

New post lcated: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/01/03/exchange_mvp_reward_7th_year/   Got my Microsoft Exchange MVP reward\recognition for the 7th year.   It is an honor to be selected as a Microsoft MVP since there are 20 Exchange MVP in the US ...[Read more]

New post located: http://blog.izzy.org/2012/12/26/microsoft-windows-live-mesh/   Check out this article on why Ed Bott of ZDNet switch from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh:   http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-i-switched-from-dropbox-to-windows-l ...[Read more]

New post located:  http://blog.izzy.org/2012/03/28/exchange This post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/12/14/database-maintenance-in-exchange-2010.aspx What maintenance tasks need to be performed against the database? Database C ...[Read more]