Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (KB 952580)

Rollup 4 for Exhange Server 2007 SP1 is released.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B492ED2-EA92-412F-A852-3AA1C58D9499&displaylang=en
This update is marked V2 for it to overwrite the accidental prerelase of RU4 one month ago.

This is must since it contains a lot on bugfixes. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952580

Reawarded again

Got a mail this afternoon from Microsoft.

Dear Lasse Pettersson,

Congratulations! We are pleased to .........bla bla bla ..... MVP award.

So this means that I am rewarded again for another year with MVP status.

Powershell scripts at SEForum

Recently I spoke at Sharepoint and Exchange forum http://www.seforum.se/ One of the session was about powershell scripts.

The two most valuable scripts are Get-ExchangeStoreageInfo.ps1 and Create-User.ps1
Get-ExchangeStorageInfo gather information about your Exchange databases, storagegroups, file and diskutilization. pretty handy to run now and then to monitor your Exchange storage.

The other script Create-User, creates windows accounts with homefolder, mailbox, joining the account to group, setting permission on folders etc. The script itself is not that fancy and could be more straightforward and smarter. Its intention was to show various techniques that can be used from powershell. One popular thing is to show a windowsform for userinput instead of questions in the script itself.

To make this script work there is a bunch of prerequisite, OU structure, variables, fileshare etc. so you will not be able do download it and just make it work, you have to put in some effort yourself.

The script can be downloaded from http://www.seforum.se/Pages/20088115544100.aspx

The Autodiscover song

If you like Exchange 2007 Autodiscover functionality which you should, you might enjoy the Autodiscover song http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/145822.asp

Info about Autodiscover http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251.aspx and the White paper http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332063.aspx

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Have you ever needed to do some testing of your Exchange server from Internet?
Well here is a site that can do some pretty valuable tests of your server.

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

Be carefull with the account and password that you submit, they should only be test account and should be deleted afterwards for best security.