A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
To disabled the clutter feature in a user’s O365 mailbox run the following command: Turn off Clutter for single user Get-Mailbox –identity someone@somewhere.com | Set-Clutter -enable $false OR Single mailbox: Set-Clutter -Identity <user name> -Enable $false If you want to disable this feature for all users in your tenant as an admin, you can do this with […]
Read moreConnect to O365 using powershell first Open PowerShell or EMS If this is an O365 mailbox, you will need to connect to the O365 environment Connect to Exchange On-line From the PowerShell console on an Exchange 2010 server: $Cred = Get-Credential $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $s Then run this command in powershell: Search-Mailbox -identity “UsersMailbox” -SearchQuery kind:meetings -DeleteContent
Read moreYou will come across the issue with leavers mailboxes needing to be transferred to another users mailbox. If you are looking after on-site exchange, then the process is slightly shorter as you don’t need to connect to the remote Powershell. To connect to O365 first run this PS command: $Cred = Get-Credential $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic […]
Read moreIf you need to add email aliases to O365 accts in bulk use the following (EMS) powershell command with the CSV file formatted this way: Name ProxyAddresses user1@domainold.com user1@domainnew.com Run this in EMS: Import-Csv C:\email-aliases.csv | ForEach-Object{ $name = $_.Name } Import-Csv C:\email-aliases.csv | ForEach-Object{ $proxy = $_.ProxyAddresses -split ‘;’} Set-RemoteMailbox -Identity $name -EmailAddresses @{add= $proxy} OR Get the display name and email […]
Read morePerforming a Domain Join Using PowerShell Once you’ve established correct DNS resolution for the domain name, start a PowerShell prompt with local administrative privileges. Press the Windows key to switch to the Start menu, type PowerShell and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. If prompted, enter a local administrator username and password, or give consent to run PowerShell. In the PowerShell prompt, type add-computer –domainname ad.contoso.com -Credential AD\adminuser […]
Read moreRetrieving the Serial Number from a Local Computer The get-ciminstance PowerShell command was introduced in PowerShell 3.0. It allows administrators to run WMI queries on local or remote computers. To retrieve the BIOS serial number of the local computer, we need to access the Win32_BIOSWMI class. Log on to Windows Server 2012 R2, click the PowerShell icon on the desktop taskbar. In the prompt window, […]
Read moreDefrag Drives with Optimize-Volume The new cmdlet we will use is called Optimize-Volume. It is part of the Storage module which utilizes the new CIM infrastructure. You can use this cmdlet to analyze and defrag all types of volumes. We’ll focus on logical drives like C:. How to Run an Analysis To run an analysis all you need to do is […]
Read moreLitigation Hold was first introduced in Exchange 2010 and is designed to preserve all items in a mailbox indefinitely for the purposes of e-discovery. Litigation Hold can be applied to mailboxes or distribution groups. When a user’s mailbox is put on Litigation Hold, they are still able to delete items, but Exchange retains the deleted items indefinitely with immutability. For […]
Read moreAre you looking at reducing hardware cost and utilizing your virtualization infrastructure to run your Exchange servers? Are you still on edge about virtualizing a mailbox role or unified messaging role? Today I’ll be sharing some tips for virtualizing Microsoft Exchange that I’ve picked up over the years – hopefully some of them may help ease your Exchange anxiety. Virtualization and Exchange are […]
Read moreWhat is a Non-Delivery Report (NDR)? If you take a look at the NDR below, you can see a sample nondelivery report. This nondelivery report contains all of the usual information such as the date and time that the message was sent, and the intended recipient. If you take a look at the last line of the nondelivery report though, […]
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