What does New-ExchangeCertificate –confirm do?

Depends who is asking. Let’s assume a scenario where you are trying to create a new self-signed certificate on Exchange 2007 using a script. You run the command “New-Exchange Certificate […]

Logs not truncated after VSS Backup in Exchange 2007 SP2 or Exchange 2010

Release of Exchange 2007 SP2 brought much awaited feature – VSS Backups! This was exciting. You were now able to take Exchange Server Backups on Windows Server 2008 without third-party […]

Why is Exchange 2007 SP2 not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2?

This is a tough question to answer as a PFE when I work with customers for whom, the release of both products came almost around the same timeframe. For many […]

Who knew? Does Microsoft support Exchange 2007 Databases on BitLocker Encrypted drive?

Did you know that Microsoft has tested and fully supports Exchange 2007 Databases on BitLocker encrypted drive? That does mean you will need Windows 2008 with BitLocker encryption enabled. If […]

How to bypass confirmation prompts for Managed Folder Policy

When you try to apply managed mailbox folder policy to a mailbox using set-mailbox, you would run a command like this:   set-mailbox -identity mailboxA -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy "MFPolicy"set-mailbox -identity mailboxA -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy […]

Exchange 2003 support and Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers

When I originally wrote this post, Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers were not supported for Exchange 2003, however, in recent months the guidance from product team has changed and […]

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 Released

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 has been released! I in particular have been waiting for this as transition from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 and co-existence of both products in […]

Disable Certificate Revocation Check

If your Exchange 2007 servers are not connected to internet (which for most cases should be true), installation of Rollup Update can hang and/or Exchange 2007 managed code services do […]

Exchange 2007 DAS or SAN? Discussion goes on…

I have read about it in many places and my friend Rob actually posted once here about it. Should I use SAN for my Exchange 2007? Will DAS save me […]

How do I check Rollup Update version on Exchange 2007 server?

This is one question that gets asked around many times! The article “Exchange Server 2007: Platforms, Editions and Versions” gives important information to identify the build numbers for each Rollup […]