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 […]
Tag: Exchange 2007
Exchange installs and upgrades the good, the bad and the ugly…
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 […]
Quick Tip – Running Exchange Based PowerShell script files from the command line or a batch file…
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 […]
Update to my create LAB users Powershell Script–Multiple Domains and 500 more users!…
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 – […]
Using Powershell to Archive Mailboxes to PST based upon the AD lastLogonTime in Exchange 2007…
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 […]
Quick Tip– Error Occurred in step: Moving Messages – MAPI or an unspecified service provider – ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000, error code:–1056749164…
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] […]
Quick Tip– Error –2147221219 Occurred in Step: Approving Object during Exchange 2007 Export-Mailbox Session…
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] […]
Contact Master–Bulk Import of Mail Enabled Contacts for Exchange 2007 and 2010…
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 […]
Introducing DynaVert for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010…
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 […]
Quick Tip–Add a member account to all Distribution Groups in your Environment
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 […]