Brien Posey

Recipient filtering can be a handy way to quickly locate a user or a mailbox, but it can also be a great way to perform an action on a subgroup. In this article, Brien Posey shows how to create simple and compound recipient filters and perform actions on the filter results through the Exchange Management Shell.

Templates can be used to create multiple mailboxes using a single command. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how it’s done.

The way that storage groups and mailbox databases are used on a mailbox server has a huge impact on the server’s performance and reliability. In this article, Brien Posey explains why this is the case, and helps you to figure out the best mailbox server architecture for your own environment.

Many organizations virtualize their servers to help save money on hardware costs. What you may not realize is though, is that virtualization can save you a bundle on licensing costs too. In this article, Brien Posey explains why.

The Windows 7 operating system makes use of dozens of system services, each of which rob your system of resources that could potentially be used to deliver better performance. In this article, Brien Posey shows you some of the services that are safe to disable, so that you can get some of your system’s resources back.

Performing an offline defragmentation of the Active Directory database is a great way to reclaim lost disk space if the system volume on your domain controller begins to run low on space. In this Article, Brien Posey shows you how the process for doing so has changed in Windows Server 2008.

The Event Viewer is one of the few components that has changed very little since the days of Windows NT. This tired interface received an overhaul in Windows Server 2008, and now includes the option of creating custom views. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how to use this new feature.

As with Windows Vista, most of Windows 7’s network configuration tasks are performed through the Network and Sharing Center. In this article, Brien Posey takes you on a tour of the Windows Sharing Center’s latest incarnation.

Rebooting a host server containing virtual machines can be a big job, because the virtual machines also have to be rebooted. Thankfully, Brien Posey shows you how to minimize the amount of work involved in these types of reboots by setting some automatic startup options.

The process of creating new Exchange Server mailboxes can be tedious, boring, and prone to errors. However, Brien Posey explains how you can use recipient template objects to make the mailbox creation process quicker, easier, and less prone to error.