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September 19, 2005
Sending mail to users whose password's about to expire
Fellow MVP (and soon-to-be-published author of Essential Exchange Server 2003) Michael Smith has a cool script that will automatically send warning mail to users whose passwords are about to expire. Run it daily, and your mail-only users will never again be able to complain that their passwords expired without prior notice.
Posted by Paul at 05:14 AM | Comments (3)
September 16, 2005
Script for searching mailboxes for specified attachments
Here's a handy script I found while looking for something else: it searches all folders in a user's mailbox (to which you must have permissions, natch), scanning for attachments with a particular filename pattern.
Posted by Paul at 02:27 PM | Comments (0)
September 15, 2005
Exchange 12 developer roadmap
Cool stuff from the PDC: the developer roadmap for E12 was unveiled at PDC today. Terry Myerson has a post on it at the Exchange team blog, or you can just go straight to the PowerPoint deck from the session. I've got a lot of catching up to do, since the Cookbook depends on WMI and CDOEXM, both of which are being "de-emphasized" in E12.
Posted by Paul at 04:41 PM | Comments (0)
Setting default permissions on calendars
Let's say you wanted to set every calendar in your organization to grant all users "reviewer" rights. This makes it easy to see detailed calendar data instead of just pure free/busy information. There's no direct way to do this through CDOEXM or WMI, but Glen Scales has come up with a solution that uses the Exchange 5.5 acl.dll. Check it out here.
Posted by Paul at 11:28 AM | Comments (0)