On a recent Exchange 2003 to 2007 upgrade, I ran into a very frustrating issue that significantly delayed our deployment. All new mailboxes that were created on using Exchange 2007 tools (Exchange 2007 Management Console or Powershell) were missing several crucial ADSI attributes, namely: legacyExchangeDN msExchALObjectVersion msExchMailboxGuid msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor (set to "not set", all other accounts have a blank value here) msExchUserAccountControl…

If you have ever had to take on a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration of a server or other machine, you know that you generally have a fine balance of the following triangle of factors: cost, complexity, and reliability. It seems like the only way to get an easy and reliable solution is to throw gobs of money at either a VMWare infrastructure or something like Platespin. Don't get me wrong: from what I've heard they both offer excellent solutions in that field, but it simply isn't cheap. I had to find out the hard way, but there is another way…