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June 29, 2005
Chapter 8 scripts
Chapter 8 covers configuring Exchange for use with Outlook, OWA, OMA, and Internet clients. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Enable OWA attachment blocking
- Enable OWA freedoc access
- Toggle OWA's spellchecking feature
- Change OWA's public and private logon timeouts
- Force OMA to support "unsupported" devices
Or you can get this chapter's scripts as a single bundle.
Posted by Paul at 07:23 AM | Comments (0)
June 22, 2005
It's shipping!
Amazon is now shipping the Exchange Server Cookbook. The book is now ranked at 8,930 (not bad for a debut title), and it's holding steady at #17 on the "computer early adopters" sub-list. Thanks to all of you who pre-ordered! If you haven't ordered your copy yet, now's a good time :)
Posted by Paul at 03:11 PM | Comments (0)
June 21, 2005
Chapter 7 scripts, reloaded
Hold the phone! You can't have a chapter about SMTP configuration without scripts, Though there were fewer scripts in this chapter than I would have liked to see, we still had them. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Create a routing group
- Delete a routing group
- Change the routing group master
- Move a server to a new routing group
- List all the SMTP queues on a virtual server
- Inspect the contents of an SMTP queue
- Delete a message from a queue
Or you can get 'em as a single bundle.
There's one other recipe in this chapter (7.21, Setting IP Address Restrictions for Multiple Servers) that really should have a script, but the command-line tools turns out to be a combination of COM object and VBScript already. Rather than duplicate effort, we figured you could just look at the included script if you need to write your own, since you'll need the COM object from this tool anyway.
Posted by Devin Ganger at 11:34 AM | Comments (3)
June 16, 2005
Chapter 7 scripts
Chapter 7 covers SMTP configuration in great detail. Unfortunately, there aren't any scripts for this chapter I'm a moron and forgot to link to the scripts. They're here.
Posted by Paul at 06:02 PM | Comments (0)
Chapter 5 scripts
Chapter 5 is all about mailbox and recipient management. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Create a user with a mailbox
- Create a mailbox for an existing user
- Delete a mailbox
- Create a mail-enabled group
- Set mailbox limits
- Move a mailbox
- Get access and logon information for a mailbox
- Get the mailbox size
- Bulk-add mailboxes from an Excel spreadsheet
- Create a contact
- Create an address list
- Create a query-based distribution group
- List assigned delegates of a mailbox
- Reverse the display name order
- Hide an item from the GAL
- Set the default reply address
- Set sender restrictions
- Show sender restrictions
- Set recipient limits
Or you can get 'em as a single bundle.
Posted by Paul at 05:58 PM | Comments (2)
Chapter 4 scripts
Chapter 4, Exchange Server and Organization Management, discusses the common management tasks associated with managing servers and organizational settings. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Starting and stopping services
- Controlling message tracking settings
- Finding all front-end servers
- Setting and removing default message size limits
Or you can get 'em as a single bundle.
Posted by Paul at 05:07 PM | Comments (0)
Scripts from Chapter 3
Chapter 3, Active Directory Integration, describes how Exchange talks to and uses Active Directory. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Getting a report of GCs and DCs in use
- Forcing Exchange to rediscover GCs and DCs
- Changing the forest functional level
Or you can get 'em as a single bundle.
Posted by Paul at 04:46 PM | Comments (2)
Scripts from Chapter 2
Chapter 2, Installation and Infrastructure, contains several useful scripts, which finally got posted as a bundle! You can also grab the individual scripts:
- Enumerating all Exchange servers in the organization with WMI
- Enumerating all Exchange servers in the organization with AD
- Enumerating all Exchange connectors in the organization
Posted by Paul at 04:41 PM | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Script revision
Robbie convinced me that my earlier plan of posting each individual script as a blog article was a poor user experience. Instead, I'll be posting zip files of the scripts for each chapter, and I'll upload individual scripts as files. I wanted to post the entire contents so that Google could find key words (or, more precisely, key WMI/CDO/CDOEXM methods and properties that people will be searching for); this will accomplish that without requiring me to spend my entire natural life pasting in VBScript code.
Posted by Paul at 04:30 PM | Comments (0)
Trackbacks == off
I've turned off trackbacks for all posts older than 5 days. I'm tired of having to clean up spam every single day.
Posted by Paul at 03:19 PM | Comments (0)
June 06, 2005
Live from TechEd: Cookbook samples
If you're at TechEd, drop by the O'Reilly Media booth and pick up a sample of the Exchange Cookbook. It's about 25 pages of some select recipes that gives you a good flavor of what the full book is like.
Posted by Paul at 12:20 PM | Comments (0)