July 2008 - Live@edu Community Blog - Microsoft Education Community

Populating your Profanity or Bad Word Filter with PowerShell on Exchange Labs

$&#@! My colleague, and fellow PowerShell fan, Richard Wakeman has just spent some time developing a script that administrators can use in conjunction with bad word list files to install them into an Exchange Labs domain. I am delighted to be able...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 04:37 PM by Live@Edu Blog

ILM and Exchange Labs

Customers ask me about this all of the time, so I wanted to share here what I have been telling them. There is often confusion over what it can and cannot do, what the alternatives are. Thanks to Richard Wakeman from our MS Services group and Erik DesBois...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 05:13 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Managing Distribution Groups in Exchange Labs with PowerShell

Dynamic Distribution Groups serve a purpose, but they are not for everyone. They tend to be used more for communicating with bigger groups of people in an organization or sometimes when you do not want people to be able to browse group membership...because...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 04:51 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Presentations from the Live@Edu World Event

This was an event that we ran for customers that were prepared to make the trip to Redmond, WA a few weeks back. It was good to be able to meet some of you there. I have just uploaded the presentations from the event to my SkyDrive...you can download...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 03:50 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Don't test delete/recreate with your Production Account info in your Exchange Labs domain!

Hi folks, For those of you that are in the test phase right now in Exchange Labs, one word of caution. Do not use your real user data in testing. There is a restriction in the Live service that controls the number of times an account can be created, deleted...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 02:37 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Using and modifying Exchange Custom Attributes in Exchange Labs

Exchange mailboxes can have multiple attributes set against them...Department, State, Address, Phone Number, etc, but what if you need more than that? Typical questions I have been asked are: How do I tag a mailbox as an Alumni How do I tag a mailbox...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 12:30 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Make sure you install the correct version of PowerShell for Exchange Labs

I have had a few customers that are having trouble getting PowerShell up and running on their desktops. The primary reason for this has been trying to run the incorrect version. What you will need is the Windows PowerShell V2 Community Technology Preview...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 09:08 AM by Live@Edu Blog

Quickly get a list of mailbox stats using PowerShell

One useful, and quick, report you can run against your Exchange Labs service has to do with Mailbox Statistics. Data returned includes the date of the last logon by a user...a simple yet effective way of measuring the usage of the service, but also who...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 12:16 AM by Live@Edu Blog

Need to support aliases for mailboxes for users that have different domains associated? Accepted Domains is the answer...

A few days ago, a customer told me that the educational institution they support consists of multiple campuses, and that each of these campuses has its own brand identity; something that carries through to the DNS domains that have been set up to support...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 12:02 AM by Live@Edu Blog

Pilot Quickstart - some sample CSV files

In order to assit with a bulk user creation, and in connection with my previous blogs on the topics of user creation and user deletion , I have created a couple of csv files to help you out. Students.xls will create 500 users for you. Just go to the feeder...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 05:31 PM by Live@Edu Blog

Filed under: Exchange Labs

Admin UI for Exchange Labs

Some folks are asking what the Exchange Labs Admin UI looks like. Well, you can see me using it in many of my screencasts, but for your convenience, I have just created a bunch of screenshots of the major features in PowerPoint and stored it on my SkyDrive...

Published Sat, Jul 19 2008 01:51 PM by Live@Edu Blog