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A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Search for mails with Get-MessageTracking using wildcards

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Here are some updated field notes from a recent message tracking case. This post is also an update of a previous post about MessageTracking I made about a year ago.

Unfortunately the Tracking Log tool in Exchange Management Console (EMC) – does not allow the use of wildcard characters, when trying to search of all mails sent or received from a certain domain. EMC can only handle a specific user or list of users.

However using the Exchange Management Shell and the cmdlet Get-MessageTracking, you are able to use wildcards in your search.

Below I have listed two examples to search for all mails sent from the “msdigest.net” domain and received from the “msdigest.net”.

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Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 is now available on TechNet and MSDN

Microsoft has now made the final version (RTM) wave 15 products available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. The following products are available for download: Exchange 2013 Lync 2013 SharePoint 2013 Office 2013 Visio 2013 Project 2013 General availability is still in Q1. Read more in my previous post: Wave 15 is now RTM More on www.technet.com or www.msdn.com for subscribers.

Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 Exams Announced

Along with the RTM announcement of the Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 products, Microsoft is getting the Certification exams ready for both products, they are currently still in the  development (beta) stage. The Lync 2013 Exams will be released first, scheduled for 6th Nov 2012. Along with expected exam numbers: Exam 70-336:  Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Exam 70-337:  Enterprise Voice & Online Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 The two exams above, …

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Wave 15 is now RTM

Great news from Microsoft last week. They announced the Released to Manufacturing (RTM) of the wave 15 products, which are: Exchange 2013 Lync 2013 SharePoint 2013 Office 2013 The RTM bits should be available on TechNet/MSDN/Volume Licensing from mid-november. General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Exchange 2013 For co-existence with Exchange 2010 or 2007, updates for both 2010/2007 is required. There is currently no date for the release of these updates. …

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New danish PowerShell UserGroup

A new danish PowerShell UserGroup is born on friday, november 16th at 16.30 (CET) in Copenhagen. The agenda is news about PowerShell 3.0 presented by Ed "The Scripting Guy" Wilson and networking opportunities with other danish PowerShell enthusiasts. If interested, read more on their website and register for the event at: http://www.psug.dk/2012/10/er-du-klar-til-forste-mode-i-psug/ There are limited seating for the event!