Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27193

Since they had to pull and re-release both UR3 and UR4 due to bugs, I think we'll wait a few weeks before installing this one. Let's see if anyone reports any problems with this release.

Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007: This article is intended to give some best practice guidance along with workarounds to known issues involving the Exchange 2010 Management Pack (MP) running on System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM). Please look through this document before calling for support or posting to the forums as the issue may be covered below. If you find that these issues are particularly troublesome or find additional issues that you want fixed please call into Microsoft Support and raise a Request For Hotfix with the Exchange group.

Finding Users Who Have Send-As or Full Access Permissions to Mailboxes

From Pat Richards' blog... How to find users who have Send-As or FullAccess rights to other users' mailboxes, via PowerShell

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/archive/2011/08/15/one-liners_3A00_-Finding-users-who-have-Send_2D00_As-or-Full-Access-permissions-to-mailboxes.aspx

How To Retrieve or Set Maximum Send/Receive Size For Mail Contacts

Set the maximum message size for a specific mail contact or group of mail contacts

Get-MailContact -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.externalemailaddress -like "SMTP:CAN????@stores.pvt"} | Set-MailContact -MaxReceiveSize 65KB -MaxSendSize 65KB -ForceUpgrade

Retrieve specific mail contacts and report on their maximum send and receive message size 

Get-MailContact -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.externalemailaddress -like "SMTP:CAN????@stores.pvt"} | ft name, externalemailaddress, maxsendsize, maxreceivesize

Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering – Part 1

Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering – Part 1

Which Mailboxes Don't Have a ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy

Get-DistributionGroupMember "Email Archiving Group" | Get-Mailbox | where {$_.ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy -eq $null}

This how I monitor for mailboxes that have not been prepared properly for Enterprise Vault. The "Email Archiving Group" is used by EV for provisioning.