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July 25, 2005
Please post your reviews
If you bought the Cookbook, and liked it, please post a review on Amazon. Reviews help generate both word-of-mouth and sales-- but don't take my word for it. A real live Yale professor, Judy Chevalier, wrote a paper in which she determined that good reviews actually do help boost sales. Bad reviews inihibit sales, so I guess if you didn't like the cookbook you should just keep quiet :) (Hat tip: Freakonomics, which you should probably be reading regularly).
And, of course, if you didn't buy the Cookbook, well, you know what to do.
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Chapter 6 scripts
Chapter 6 is about managing mailbox and public folder databases. Scripts in this chapter include:
- Create a storage group
- List all storage groups on a server
- Create a new mailbox database
- Create a new public folder tree
- Delete a mailbox database
- Move a mailbox database's EDB and STM files
- Move the transaction logs for a SG
- List the mailboxes in a database
- Toggle circular logging on a storage group
Or you can get all of the chapter scripts as a single bundle.
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July 20, 2005
Cool script: flip RPC-over-HTTP heuristic bits
Evan posted about this last month year, and I'm just now getting caught up. With Exchange 2003 SP1, you can use the new ESM UI to set up RPC over HTTPS, which is about a million times easier than the RTM way of doing so. However, you have to set up all your BE servers first, because the FEs will scan AD for the heuristic bits that indicate whether the BE is part of a managed topology or not. Problem: you have to set this manually on every BE, and you'd better not miss any! Solution: use this script to do all the work for you.
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July 18, 2005
Cool Exchange backup script
John Howard posted a nifty script for backing up Exchange servers.
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