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 […]
Over the years, I have installed Exchange Server probably thousands of times. In big infrastructures, little infrastructures and everything in between. Luckily the vast majority of those installs have gone without a hitch – however, there have been some (and those tend to be the ones that I remember the most) that didn’t go so […]
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 […]
I have been making some modifications to my home lab over the last few days, one key change has been to add in a child domain so that I can test Exchange related scenarios in a multi-domain environment. Naturally, once I had created the child domain, I wanted to populate it with some users – […]
A little while ago I ran into a neat little freeware tool for Powershell called the Inactive Users Tracker PowerShell Cmdlet by a company called Netwrix. This cmdlet in essence provided a nice, simple to use wrapper for consolidated last logon information for accounts in Active Directory (as you may be aware the lastlogon attribute […]
Linked to my previous post here after I had solved one issue I was immediately faced with another. Even though I was now past the “Approving Object” error – I now had a “Moving Messages” error as per the log file below: [10/11/2011 14:22:54] [0] Executing Command: 'Export-Mailbox ana.hayes -PSTFolderPath X:\psts -ReportFile x:\test.txt' [10/11/2011 14:22:54] […]
Whilst writing a script for a larger post today I came across the above error. In essence, every time that I tried to use the Export-Mailbox cmdlet it would terminate and not finish the export operation. Reviewing the log file (which is located in <Exchange Binary Root>\Logging\MigrationLogs) I would see the following information: [10/11/2011 14:18:33] […]
Edit: This article has been updated to reflect a slightly revised version of the Application. The old version did not correctly load the Exchange 2010 Management Agents. The version has been updated to 1.0.1 – if you downloaded the old version (1.0) and are running Exchange 2010 – please download and install the new version […]
Whoa Grogie, what the hell is DynaVert? – something to do with Prehistoric lizards? – thankfully no!. DynaVert is a little tool that I have come up with, written in .NET that in essence converts Dynamic Distribution Lists into "Regular” distribution lists in just a few simple clicks! The inspiration for this tool came from […]
Today I had the need to add a single user to all the Distribution Groups (around 120) within my Exchange Environment. Thankfully doing this task via Powershell this is a very simple "one liner". All you need to do is open an Exchange Management Shell Window and Type in the following command: Get-DistributionGroup | Add-DistributionGroupMember […]
In a previous article, I provided a Powershell script which could be used to create a number of users for use within a Lab (test environment). Moving on from that, I recently started thinking about other elements of Exchange that are typically very repetitive to perform, but are also needed within an LAB infrastructure – […]
Yes, after years of development (since around 2009) and a little late for the mid-Feb 2011 release date – I am finally (and very proudly) in the position to announce the RTP (release to public) version of OOOCTA 3.5 (Out of Office Configuration Tool Assistant). I had planned to release the tool in Feb 2011 […]
STOP PRESS… One of the first things that you might have noticed is that there is a change to the version number of the ALST as I begin this part (Part 1 used version 2.2.0 of the tool whereas this version is based around 2.2.1) – and you might be thinking – why!!!!? Well, just […]
I have been meaning to write this for a little while but have been trying to find the time to sit down and think it through so that it might be of benefit to someone. The history behind this article is that I get asked quite a bit both via this site and indeed from […]
Well, it is finally here – after months of development, hard work, swearing, beer, pizza and almost one divorce (mind you if there was two divorces on the cards I would have a lot of explaining to do) – I am very proud to present to you version 2.2.0 of my Exchange 2007 Address List […]
