Powershell based articles.
A reader of my blog contacted me the other day with the following question: I am a contractor at my company which is being broken up because of investment developments. I need to do the following. Company has about 4200 users total About 1300 have gone to another company almost all of these have normal […]
A couple of weeks back an online buddy of mine contacted me to ask some advice. In essence his company was performing some major upgrades to their MPLS network which required some relatively significant changes to hosts that were allowed to relay off of the Exchange Server that was located on his site. We had […]
Script Description This PowerShell based script will create a shortcut to the Exchange Administrative Console for Exchange 2013 on the Desktop of each Exchange 2013 server which hosts the administrative tools. Download [ CreateExchangeAdminCentreIcon.ps1 – 1.5KB ] Usage Please refer to the following article(s): http://www.telnetport25.com/2012/11/quick-tipcreating-an-icon-on-the-desktop-for-the-exchange-2013-eac/
This is a very quick tip (with a script) that enables you to create an icon for the Exchange Administrative Centre in Exchange 2013 on your desktop. Whilst perhaps not the most earth shattering tip – and indeed it is one that is aimed at administrators who are less familiar with Exchange 2013 in some […]
A couple of weeks back I published a very simple script which I had been using on a few versions of Exchange to determine the physical sizes of each of the EDB files. A reader commented that in Exchange 2010 – such an elaborate script was not needed as the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet contains a “DatabaseSize” […]
Script Description This PowerShell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Provides you with the physical database size of all the Exchange Databases in your environment Download [ GetEXDBPhysicalSize.ps1 – 1.3KB ] Usage Please refer to the following article: […]
I have been doing some work recently on pulling capacity management information from Exchange 2010 using PowerShell. One requirement that I needed to satisfy was returning the physical size of all Exchange Database files within the organisation. There are a number of examples of how this can be done when you have a look around […]
Let’s kick off this post by considering the following Exchange 2010 DAG Configuration: In summary – the Exchange infrastructure is spread across 3 geographic sites. There are two DAG nodes on site A and B which are also running the Client Access Server and Hub Transport roles. At site C there is a file share […]
I have been planning an upgrade within an DAG based Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 environment to Exchange Service Pack 2 with Roll up 2. When planning such upgrades I always like to gather as much configuration data as possible – mainly focussing on areas such as Client Access Server settings. However – there are […]
The other day whilst trying to send an e-mail to a new starter in my organisation I discovered that their name did not appear to be on the Global Address List within my Outlook client (Outlook 2010). Now I knew that the user had been created correctly (and had been several days ago), was also […]
I have been asked this quite a bit over the years, and indeed in most of my articles where I provide PS based scripts I tend to re-iterate the process for running or scheduling them. So rather than continue to cover the process over and over again, I thought that I would put together a […]
As the Boom Town Rats (and Sir Bob) said, I don’t like Mondays. Some of you lucky folks don’t have to work on a Monday (or indeed some other days of the week) – so are you tired of setting your Out of Office the night before you are not in the office on a […]
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Accepts a single mandatory parameter – 1) ReportFile Reports on the OOF status for each user in your organisation to a text file Download [ GetOOFExchange2010.ps1 – 1KB […]
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Accepts two mandatory parameters – 1) Mailbox Name 2) Text file with OOF Messages Sets the Internal and External OOF Messages according to the text file Accepts two […]
In between some of the other stuff that I have been working on; I have also been thinking about the future of the OOOCTA tool. Currently OOOCTA supports both Exchange 2007 SP 1 (and above) as well as Exchange 2010, however the underling code infrastructure is a little complicated to say the least in order […]
