A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
Have you ever ran into a situation where your disk space on your Windows Server were running low and you had to constantly remote into the server to check the disk space? Now, imagine if you had to do this for 10-100 servers! holy crap. With this PowerShell script you can get an email notification when your disk space is […]
Read moreYou may find yourself in a situation where you have Exchange in a multi-domain environment, that when your running commands like get-mailbox it’s not displaying mailboxes across all the domains. You can sort that out by simply expanding your recipient scope, you can do that by running the below Open Exchange Management Console with Admin rights Run the command below […]
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 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, […]
Read moreClient Access Server Array Pre-Requisites Two or more Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Servers can be configured as a CAS array using NLB as long they are not also installed as Mailbox servers that are members of a Database Availability Group (DAG). The reason is that DAG members utilize Windows Failover Clustering, which can’t co-exist with NLB. To demonstrate the setup of […]
Read moreAn often misunderstood feature of Exchange Server 2010 is the Client Access server array, or CAS array. In Exchange Server 2007 the Client Access server role was introduced to perform a similar role to the Exchange 2003 Front-End server, in that it was responsible for accepting client connections for services such as Outlook Web Access, ActiveSync, Outlook Anywhere, and other web services. […]
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