Jeremy Phillips

“The new Recycle Bin functionality in Server 2008 R2 is really cool – you can actually undelete objects, and all their attributes are restored as if the object never went away – no requirement to rejoin the domain for computer objects, for example.”

via Dougs Blog… Exchange Server daily : Active Directory Recycle Bin.

Definitely a must read for Exchange admins.

The larger the organization the less it seems that the Exchange Administrators talk to or work with the Active Directory Administrators. This is usually a two-way street. This lack of understanding can severely impact your Exchange environment. The purpose of this blog post is to educate YOU the Exchange Administrator on what you need to understand about Active Directory (AD), a few AD basics, and a few tips. Hopefully this knowledge will allow you to proactively talk to your AD Administrator(s). It would be great if you read this before you implemented Exchange Server 2007, but we can’t have it all, can we? Finally, I hope by the end you will understand why we need Active Directory (we already know they need us – everyone needs email right?).

via You Had Me At EHLO… : Why you need Active Directory for Exchange Server 2007.

Shameless Plug : I am available for hire to assist with Active Directory issues. Please contact me if I can be of any assistance.

While it sounds like a daunting task, it’s actually quite simple. Login as a domain admin and execute the following from the command line;

csvde -f file.csv

Beware that this will dump everything from your directory and may be quite a bit more information than you are looking for, and there are methods to limit the scope of information returned. Here is a link to the reference on TechNet.