Although there were serveral great books targeted at Exchange 2007 and PowerShell, the market dried up for Exchange 2010.

After writing two other and some training material on Exchange 2010, there wasn’t enough time to update our  PowerShell book, “Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1“ . And the other great Exchange 2007 PowerShell book “Exchange Mangement Shell: TFM” from Ilse Van Criekinge was also not updated for Exchange 2010.  So, I was very happy to see that Packt Publishing got a book on the market to fill the void in the market with “Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook“.

Serious Exchange administrators need to embrace and understand PowerShell to optimize their administrative tasks. This book covers the basics about PowerShell and also gives a number of recipies that you can use in your own environment. This is a very practical guide and will equip you to start make use of PowerShell in your daily administrative tasks.

If you are serious about getting started with PowerShell specific to Exchange 2010, you will want to take a look at this book.

I wrote these white papers a few years ago; the original content host no longer makes them available, so I thought I would post them here as I still get requests for copies. Enjoy!

Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering

Continuous Cluster Replication and Direct Attached Storage

After almost eight years of running the Exchange Exchange community on the various releases of software from the ASP.NET forums linage, we have moved on. The handwriting was on the wall for over a year that migration to another platform was necessary due to changes into how the software was licensed and how support was handled. During that time we’ve been waiting to determine the best platform and how to handle the migration of the years of content our community has helped build. It turned out that there really is no easy way to do to a complete migration.

For the last few weeks we’ve migrated all of the legacy blog data into the new WordPress site and have wrestled with the right way to handle the forums. We have migrated a few of the current topics and continue to work on importing more.

We are committed to supporting an open forum on this site. If we missed migrating your account, please re-register and again join the community.  If your account has been migrated you will need to choose the forgot password option to reset your password as none of the passwords were able to be migrated.

Please be patient and we will return you to your regularly scheduled Exchange content.

UPDATE: If you are having trouble finding the companion content from the O’Reilly site you can download it directly here. (Hint: Use the “Download Example Code” link in the left column of the book’s page here.)

I am happy to announce the availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices by Microsoft Press. This book took about 17 months to complete with the help of over 50 reviewers, contributors, and editors. As you can see from the cover we had some heavy hitters help with the book: David Espinoza, Tony Redmond, Jeffrey Rosen, Andy Schan, and the entire Exchange Server Team.

Also, since we worked so closely with the product team they allowed us to publish information about Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) before it’s public release.

The book covers the typical Exchange topics but it does so with added depth and with over 80 sidebars contributed by a varied cast of Exchange experts: product group members, MCS consultants, MCMs, MVPs, and others.

If you would like to order the book you can do so here.

If you have feedback on the book, please let us know.

 UPDATE (3/22/11)

An excerpt from this book on namespace planning has been published by Windows IT Pro magazine here.

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I've been having to deal with software that isn't Exchange (although it is Exchange-related) as of late, and it's been, um, interesting. One of the projects with which I'm involved is an Enterprise Vault implementation. It's everything BUT Exchange – SQL, MSMQ, IIS, and I even get to play with some networking. Fun, mostly. But at heart, I'm an Exchange girl, and this stuff isn't instinctive for me like Exchange tends to be.

Enough rambling, back to my point….

Enterprise Vault won't work without MSMQ installed. On one of the EV servers (Windows 2008 SP2, 64-bit), the MSMQ service had shut down and would not restart. Instead of troubleshooting the service issue, we decided to simply uninstall MSMQ (Server Manager | Features | Remove Feature) and then reinstall. Except the reinstall failed, and the error message was unhelpful at best:

Message Queuing       Installation Failed

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When I looked at the Server Manager log file, there wasn't much that seemed helpful to me there. Maybe I was overwhelmed because it's now a 10 MB text file, but useful information wasn't found there by me. In any case, the error that stood out to me was a -2147021879. But that didn't produce anything useful in either Google or Bing for me.

I contacted my company's trusty Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Love those folks. He sent me to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298439, which is an OLD OLD OLD kb, but it worked. While the files and folders had been properly removed by the uninstall of MSMQ, the registry entries were still there causing me pain. Whacked 'em, and now I'm golden (i.e. I was able to install MSMQ cleanly. Whee!)

I'm not blogging this because it was a particularly brilliant solution, I'm blogging it because DAYS of searching didn't lead me to the article above. Now I know. And so do you.