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 […]
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Powershell based articles.
Quick Tip–adding multiple Remote IP Addresses to Receive Connectors…
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 to a shortcut icon on the desktop for the Exchange 2013 EAC
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/ Sharing is caring!:
Quick Tip–Creating 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 […]
Quick Tip (Revisited) – How to get the physical sizes of Exchange Databases (in different versions of Exchange from a single script)
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” […]
Exchange 2010–Get Physical Mailbox Database Size Script
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: […]
Quick Tip – How can I get the physical sizes of all my Exchange databases
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 […]
Client Access Array Switchover script…
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 […]
Gathering Exchange 2010 Client Access Server Configuration data to a Microsoft InfoPath form…
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 […]
Quick Tip – Script to collate Exchange 2010 OAB Generation Logs…
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 […]