Mailhelp

Microsoft announced this week that they were renaming the Monad shell environment to "Microsoft PowerShell", which IMHO is kind of an odd name. Most people, I daresay, associated the "Power" prefix with Apple. At least it's not a super-duper-long name that tries to tie in to a bunch of other products. In line with this name change, the Monad team blog has a new home too: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell, and MS released release candidiate 1 of the PowerShell environment. However, I haven't gotten around to updating the category names for this blog... too bad.

The Monad team blog has a useful Monad script for intelligent event log analysis. The simple way to do it is to say

get-eventlog Application | where {$_.EventID -eq -1018}

but this gets the same set of events every time you run it. The team's script uses a checkpoint file to keep track of the last search it did, and it has a few other nice features as well.

From new Exchange MVP Bharat Suneja: a script to find the GUID for a mailbox database. You need this if you want to raise the size limit for a store in the Standard Edition of Exchange.

I've added a new "Monad" category; I'm sure you can guess why! As we get closer to the release of Exchange 12 beta 2, I'll be posting more Monad-oriented scripts here.