How to update GAL and OAB from Exchange Management Shell

To quickly update all the Address Lists and the Offline Address Book, run these 3 command in the Exchange Management Shell:

Get-GlobalAddressList | Update-GlobalAddressList

Get-AddressList | Update-AddressList

Get-OfflineAddressBook | Update-OfflineAddressBook

How to hide items from the Address List in Exchange 2007

A client of mine has not been able to hide items from the GAL by using the EMC.

It appears as though AD is not correctly updated because in ADSI Edit the item has showInAddressBook defined, when it should show <not set>.

To resolve the issue all items must be un-hidden then re-hidden using the Exchange Management

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Exchange 2007 CSR command generation webpage

https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/exchange2007.htm

Thank you Digicert!

Exchange 2007 – Export to PST

A client needed to remove several mailboxes from their Exchange 2007 system.  All the users had been moved to an OU for Ex-Staff members.

To use the Export-Mailbox command requires a computer with Outlook 2003 SP2 or Outlook 2007, running a 32 bit version of Windows and the Exchange Management Tools installed.

Because all the

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Exchange 2007 Connectivity Test

I was on the phone with MS Support working on an Exchange 2007 issue and the tech sent me to this website to verify the setup.  It tests DNS records for Autodiscovery and also tests the Cert.

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

Migrate Exchange 2003 to 2007

Here are Microsoft’s instructions:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288905.aspx

The only trouble is that they don’t have them written in a really usable order… The whole document needs to be read before you can proceed start at step one. Especially if you use Public Folders.

Exchange 2007 SP2 and SBS 2008

A colleague of mine sent me this…

In case you don’t know exchange 2007 SP2 is out, I was having problems on 2 sites with [O]utlook constantly prompting for passwords and not accepting them, even though Outlook [A]nywhere was not configured on the client.  Outlook would give the message in the lower right corner (Needs

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Microsoft Support for Exchange in a Virtualized Environment

If you aren’t running WS08 it isn’t supported…

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548(EXCHG.80).aspx