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August 2006 - Posts

More MONAD stuff: Message Tracking and Tab Completion

Been a busy week this week... but just found a smart and quick way of dumping out the Message Tracking Table through MONAD: Get-MessageTrackingLog |format-table I discussed this previously and half the learning curve with Monad, is understanding exactly Read More
posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:45 PM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

More Powershell (MONAD) Stuff

So today I have been actively learning a little bit more about Powershell and generally playing with some of the features which are not that readily obvious. I was chatting with a colleague yesterday, Paul Flaherty, and we have both been overwhelmed with Read More
posted Friday, August 25, 2006 4:09 PM by Brettjo | 3 Comments

System Centre Capacity Planner 2006

Over the past couple of days a few mails have floated through my Inbox asking for advice on capacity and performance planning for Ex2003. It can be quite a challenge to make sure that your Exchange Infrastructure is up to the job and planning is key to Read More
posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:17 PM by Brettjo | 3 Comments

Useful Exchange Server 2007 URL's

I have been updating some of my Ex2007 presentations today and I came across a deck which had an a very useful appendix, rather than wait for me to come to you, here they all are - some you will know and use day in, day out, others not so. Here they are: Read More
posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:03 AM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

Exchange Ninja's

You may have seen this already from EHLO, but I have just registered and it looks as though this is going to be an incredibly useful site to for the inner depths of Ex2007 and the Powershell. Certainly going to keep an eye on this..! http://www.exchangeninjas.com/ Read More
posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:51 PM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

UK Technet Vista Events

So this isn't Exchange but I wanted to let you know about the following two events that are happening in London and Reading: 11 September 2006, London: Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies Windows Vista will ship with several new system Read More
posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:01 PM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

Exchange 2007 and X400

You are  probably aware from playing about with BETA2 that X400 is not an integral part of Ex2007, however I wanted to draw your attention to the following 3rd party announcement. In the majority of cases it probably won't Read More
posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:47 PM by Brettjo | 1 Comments

Windows Live Writer

So for the past month or so I have been forbidden to Blog about Windows Live Writer, the tool that I have been using to write my Blog entries..! Clive beat me to it :) but if your a blogger and need a nice way of writing your entries, then this Read More
posted Monday, August 14, 2006 5:19 PM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

How to Work out What a MONAD Command Does..!

Today I have been installing Ex2007 servers into my existing Ex2003 test environment all in Virtual Server, all is pretty cool even got CCR working out the box. One element I still trying to get my head round is MONAD (Powershell), my problem is Read More
posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:14 PM by Brettjo | 5 Comments

microsoft Exchange hosted services aka frontbridge

Hopefully many of you will have now downloaded Ex2007 BETA2 and getting familiar with the new product. I discussed Forefront recently and received some feedback from one of my team as to why I hadn't included Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) You Read More
posted Monday, August 07, 2006 9:31 AM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant

A little while ago I posted a short article on ExTRA well yesterday this became a reality and V1 can be dowloaded from here "The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically executes a set of troubleshooting steps to identify the root cause of Read More
posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:17 AM by Brettjo | 0 Comments

IE7, IE7+ and Autoupdate

Slightly off the Exchange topic today but with good reason. I have recently seen a few interesting mails fly through my mailbox regarding what's happening with IE. In a nutshell Internet Explorer 7 will be known under two different names: Read More
posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:07 AM by Brettjo | 0 Comments