How to set GAL for mailboxes in OWA for Exchange 2007/2010 in bulk (via Laeeq Qazi’ Exchange Server 2007/2010 Blog)

There is often a need that exchange administrators want they only show a specific Global Address List (GAL) to a group of mailbox users in Outlook Web Access. Microsoft has provided an Active Directory user attribute for this purpose "msExchQueryBaseDN" to do this task for an individual mailbox user, which is also mentioned in the Address List Segregation document Address List Segregation Exchange 2007. Now here we can limit a user to either see … Read More

via Laeeq Qazi' Exchange Server 2007/2010 Blog

Exchange 2007/2010 Install notes

To install Exchange 2007/2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 server first install these 4 components:

• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5
• Windows Remote Management 2.0
• Windows PowerShell v2
• ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

Also

• Set static IP addresses on any Network cards
• Open Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features
• Turn Windows Features On or Off
• Add Role Web Server (IIS)

If you go through the exchange 2010 install process at this point you will receive the messages:

Unable to read data from the Metabase. Ensure that Microsoft Internet Information Services is installed.
Unable to access the ‘Default Web Site’ on this computer.

To fix this problem open Windows Powershell and with elevated rights using “Run As Administrator”, and run below cmdlets to install prerequisites…

• Import-Module ServerManager
• Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
• Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType Automatic

Individually the commands look like this:

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ISAPI-Ext
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Metabase
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Basic-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Digest-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Dyn-Compression
ServerManagerCmd -i NET-HTTP-Activation
ServerManagerCmd -I RPC-over-HTTP-proxy (If Needed for ‘Outlook Anywhere’…)

Now run the Exchange 2010 setup.exe and it should progress successfully.

Force office documents to open in their application

I needed to control how office files are open when using internet explorer so i created a custom ADM for Active Directory

CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY “EduGeek Options”
CATEGORY “Microsoft Office 2003 Options”

POLICY “Force Excel files to open in Excel”
KEYNAME “SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.Sheet.8″

ACTIONLISTON
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE NUMERIC 8
END ACTIONLISTON
ACTIONLISTOFF
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE DELETE
END ACTIONLISTOFF

END POLICY

POLICY “Force Word files to open in Word”
KEYNAME “SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.Document.8″
ACTIONLISTON
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE NUMERIC 8
END ACTIONLISTON
ACTIONLISTOFF
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE DELETE
END ACTIONLISTOFF
END POLICY

POLICY “Force Powerpoint files to open in Powerpoint”
KEYNAME “SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.Show.8″
ACTIONLISTON
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE NUMERIC 8
END ACTIONLISTON
ACTIONLISTOFF
VALUENAME “BrowserFlags” VALUE DELETE
END ACTIONLISTOFF
END POLICY

END CATEGORY;
END CATEGORY;