RE: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get-ExchangeServer

2012-04-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm somewhat limited in what I can say, because what isn't public is still under NDA, even though the project was canned. I can tell you this - there are some things that ESE does really really well that SQL is very bad at. One of these is "instant" index generation. Every mailbox comes with 10

RE: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get-ExchangeServer

2012-04-26 Thread Jason Gurtz
Ahh yes, I remember those rumors well (and being stoked about it). At the time I had escaped the responsibilities of personally dealing with Exchange 5.5 and thought a genuine sql interface would allow for the sorts of things we were doing with sendmail and friends at $lastJob. Exchange might start

RE: Update "Other Phone" in a powershell script

2012-04-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Almost certainly I do. But can you be a bit more specific as to what you want or are trying to do? From: Dave Wade [mailto:dave.w...@stockport.gov.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Update "Other Phone" in a powershell script Folks, I am trying to u

Update "Other Phone" in a powershell script

2012-04-26 Thread Dave Wade
Folks, I am trying to update the various "other" phone numbers in the GAL via Exchange Powershell and getting into a horrid mess comparing Multi-Values fields. Does any one have any sample code? Dave Remember to use your vote in local elections on Thursday 3rd May 2012. For more information a

RE: eDiscovery tools for Exchange .pst files

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Evans
We are currently working with Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange. I wish it had better search functions (support for regular expressions would be great, I would even settle for decent and/or operators), but it does basic text searches pretty well. I doubt that the average user would want or need

RE: OT, sorta: New blog post: Determining the Exchange Version - without using Get-ExchangeServer

2012-04-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Code-name Kodiak. It was Exchange-on-SQL. (SQL Server Yukon, what became SQL 2005.) It ran, but it was a dog; even on 64-bit systems. There were learnings from that, both on the SQL side and on the Exchange side, but the decision was made to stick with ESE. And ESE has actually exploded in use