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After installing update rollup 2 for HMC 4.5 I noted a few issues with adding mailboxes and retrieving domains owned by a customer. Thanks to Kip Ng's blog post ( https://blogs.technet.com/provtest/archive/2009/02/14/hmc-4-5-rollup-2-has-been-released.aspx ) his suggestion of executing the following...

Lately I have been getting right into Powershell scripting and I have been trying to build an auditing utility which HMC 4.5 Cross Data Store (CrossDS) was supposed to provide. In building this auditing tool, I have built some basic Powershell scripts on the way that may help others understand how to...

Hi All, For those of you that have customers that require mailboxes larger than 2GB or at you will have issues provisioning the mailbox plan (Hosted Email 2007 -> CreateUserPlan) with the standard HMC 4.0 environment. To allow you create mailbox plans of a larger size you will have to remove the restrictions...

When trying to modify settings with a Exchange Distribution List that was added in HMC 3.5 and you have upgraded to HMC 4.0 you may get an error "The specified path is not a distribution list.". The problem is that HMC 4.0 checks to see if the group scope is "universal" and the group...

Oh what fun! After many hours of pain in trying to work out why I couldn't install the new version of DNSClient.msi I finally got it working. As it turns out the provider requires you to have the "Default Web Site" set to "(All Unassigned)" in the "IP Address" field...

As an alternate database, MPS/HMC/WBH stores details about some of the related objects in Active Directory. None of these details are stored in the MPS SQL databases from what I can see. These details are called service pointers. If you look in adsiedit.msc you will find them under the customers OU in...

In Active Directory there is an attribute named "otherWellKnownObjects" which is not very well documented but put simply is used to reference other related objects. When talking about otherWellKnownObjects you will also hear about a term "Well Known GUID". Well Known GUIDs define...