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Active Directory/LDAP

Export and Import Content Filter Words or Phrases

September 15, 2009

In Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007, you can add custom words or phrases as good or bad words to modify the Spam Confidence Level (SCL) assigned to messages. Messages with a good word or phrase are assigned an SCL of 0 and bypass other antispam agents that fire after the Content Filtering agent. Messages with [...]

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Script: Listing Distribution Groups a recipient is a member of

July 15, 2008

It’s easy to get a list of all members of a Distribution Group. The Exchange shell (EMS) ships with the Get-DistributionGroupMember cmdlet that makes it a short one-liner (compared to 100s of lines of code in VBS). However, how do we get all Distribution Groups a user, group, or contact is a member of? There’s [...]

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Modifying Display Templates and additional attributes

June 20, 2008

Recently got a question about customizing the GAL and my previous post that talks about it: “HOW TO: Modify Display Template to make default email address appear in Address Book/GAL“. In Exchange 2010/2007, the new Details Template Editor can be found in EMC | Tools. The editor makes it much easier to modify templates and [...]

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Errata: Edge Subscription and Synchronization white paper

March 25, 2008

The white paper on Edge Subscription and Synchronization has the following error: Under Recipient Information: Distribution groups are not replicated to ADAM. Distribution Groups are in fact replicated to ADAM using EdgeSync. In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Distribution Group membership (the member attribute) is also replicated. On Windows Server 2008, ADAM is replaced by Active [...]

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HOW TO: Delegate recipient administration for an OU

March 3, 2008

Exchange Server 2007 allows easier delegation of administration responsibilities, based on the following predefined administration roles:1) Exchange Organization Administrator 2) Exchange Server Administrator 3) Exchange Recipient Administrator 4) Exchange Public Folder Administrator and 5) Exchange View Only Administrator. Figure 1: Exchange Server 2007 allows delegation of administrative responsibilities The delegation wizard in the EMC allows [...]

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Bulk mailbox creation revisited: Adding Active Directory attributes

December 4, 2007

The instructions in Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell allow you to quickly create mailboxes in bulk using the New-Mailbox command. Continuing from where we left off in that post, another scenario is being able to add Active Directory attributes to the new user object created by New-Mailbox. Note, the [...]

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AD Explorer: A better ADSIEdit than ADSIEdit

November 6, 2007

Came across this useful Active Directory tool called AD Explorer, thanks to fellow Zenpriser Tariq Hamirani. Created by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich, it’s another one of those cool SysInternals tools that came with Microsoft’s acquisition of their company Winternals. AD Explorer is a better ADSIEdit than ADSIEdit. It lets you add AD locations (containers/objects) [...]

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SP1 fixes setup failure issue with Windows 2000 domains

July 31, 2007

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 fixes setup related issues where setup fails when you do not have any Windows Server 2003 SP1 Domain Controllers in other Domains in the Forest (i.e. one or more domains have only Windows 2000 DCs/GCs), or one or more domains are unreachable during setup. More on the team blog: [...]

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Longhorn: Active Directory Users and Computers console saves trips to ADSIEdit

May 9, 2007

One of the nice features I noticed about the Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console in Longhorn server – in an object’s properties, there’s an Attribute Editor tab built-in, that allows one to directly edit an object’s attributes. In previous versions, one had to use a tool like ADSIEdit to edit attributes not exposed [...]

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OPATH: Filterable properties that can be used in Recipient Filters

February 20, 2007

I posted about OPATH filters recently [read previous posts 1) Adventures with OPATH: some annoyances if you're used to LDAP and 2) memberOf Attribute can now be used in OPATH filters!]. One of the issues was my inability to get a list of filterable properties that can be used in OPATH filters – unlike LDAP [...]

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