Brien Posey

One of the things that I’ve always found interesting about Exchange Server 2007 is that the Exchange Management Console was built on top of the Exchange Management Shell.  As such, anything that you can do through the console can also be done from a command line.  For the most part, I have always preferred to…

In the previous article, I showed you how to install the Print Management console. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to migrate other network print servers to the  network print server that you’ve created. Network Printer Migration Now that you have an enterprise print management server in place, you…

In the previous article in this series (Using Exchange Management Shell to Configure Content Filtering, Part 1), I showed you how to use the Set-ContentFilterConfig command to specify bypassed sender domains in Exchange Server 2007. As you may recall though, the biggest problem was that whenever you enter this command, the existing list of bypassed…

If you decide to use Outlook as the client for your Exchange deployment, than one of the biggest administrative tasks associated with the deployment is going to be deploying Outlook.  Although there are a number of system management utilities that can be used to distribute software, it is possible to deploy Outlook by making some…

One of the things that always seems weird about wireless networking is that companies typically go to great lengths to make sure that their wireless networks are secure, but often times do nothing to ensure that employees are actually connecting to the correct network. In fact, I recently received an e-mail from someone who had…

The Exchange Server 2003 Setup program was designed from the very beginning to allow you to uninstall Exchange server should you have the need. Even so, removing Exchange Server 2003 from and Exchange Server 2007 organization requires a little bit more work than what you might initially expect. In this article, I’ll show you the…

As we all know, Exchange Server 2007 is a lot different from previous versions of Exchange.  One of the changes that Microsoft made in creating Exchange Server 2007 was to get rid of the Recipient Update Service.  In case you’re not familiar with the Recipient Update Service, it was the mechanism responsible for stamping e-mail…

If you have done much work with Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server, then you are probably familiar with the concept of recipient policies. Recipient policies still exist in Exchange Server 2007, but they have been broken into two different components; accepted domains (which I covered in Defining an Exchange 2007 E-Mail Address Policy,…

Need to keep AD running in top shape with Windows Server 2008? Brien Posey shows you how.

So far in this article series, I have talked about the new printer management utilities included in Windows Server 2008, and shown you how to consolidate network print servers.  In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to use group policies to deploy the network printers to network clients. Client…