Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

Use PFDAVAdmin to recover deleted public folder or items

This might be old news to some 🙂 But PFDAVADmin is still a great utility and it works perfect for Exchange 2007 (from a client, see my last post). Besides using it to handle folder permissions, it can also recover public folders or public folder items, that have been accidentally deleted, as long as it’s within the retention time. This article describes how to recover deleted public folders or items that are deleted from public …

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PFDAVAdmin, Exchange 2007 and .NET v.1.1 issue

PFDAVAadmin is still a great tool to manage public folders. It helps you do a lot of things "in bulk" that you would not easily be able to do otherwise (in a GUI). At least not as quickly and it works with Exchange 2000/2003/2007 even though it’s an old utility. However, on two different Exchange 2007 servers, I have received messages similar to this: ‘Could not expand https://localhost/exadmin/admin/mydomain.com/public%20folders/: name cannot begin with the ‘0’ character, …

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URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to: Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications; Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables; Web site content handling; …

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New Exchange TechCenter on TechNet

Microsoft has re-launched a new TechCenter for Exchange on TechNet, with primary focus on Exchange 2010 of course. Still a lot of information in the Library about older Exchange versions though. See the new Exchange Server TechCenter here.