Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

The ability to rewrite the from address of emails can be exceedingly useful if you are working with consolidating or migrating email systems especially if you have two (or more) companies merging or you're trying to consolidate disparate email system across orgs. Exchange 2007 has a great address rewriting agent that runs on a Edge server which is explained in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996806.aspx . If you aren't implementing an Edge server as part of your Exchange org then unfortunately you cant use this agent on a Hub server. One solution to this is that you write your own agent to do this which is what this post is about. Now that link I just pointed to has some very important information about the fields you should and shouldn't rewrite in an address rewriting Agent and the reason you shouldn't rewrite particular fields. The Return-Path is probably the one of most note and maybe the one people will tend to want to rewrite because of the visibility...

The Reading pane (or preview pane) is one the features of the premium version of Outlook Web Access on 2007. Due to Security or bandwidth (or other) worries you may want to turn this off on particular folders for your users (although they will still be able to still turn this back on using OWA). There is no global way of turnin it off so you need to modify the property that controls this on each folder you want to be affected. The property that controls the Preview pane is http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/preview this doesn't get set by default so in the absence of this property the preview pane is on. If the property does exist it will be one of three values 0 - Preview Pane is off 1 - Preview Pane set to rights 2 - Preview Pane set to bottom To set this property you can use any of the Exchange API's on 2007 the best API to use is EWS in C# if you wanted to set this property you would need to use the following property definition in a FolderUpdate Operation P...

This script takes a slightly different approach on some of the mailstore size and whitespace scripts that I've posted and a few others you may have seen posted around the traps. The great thing about scripting in the time of the WFC is that its free no budget required and the only limitation to what you can do is probably 1. your imagination 2. your skills. Given the WFC you should have much more time now to improve both (well at least the second). One of the new pressures that some admins maybe feeling in said WFC and the push towards virtulization is that the ratio of Servers to Admin is increasing so companies can at least from some perspective say they are cutting cost and raising efficacy of their IT teams. So what does this have to do with this script well... because its a new year its a good chance to review and rethink traditional approaches. Pretty much any size reporting script you will see will look at giving you the current size of various components of your mailboxes/...