PowerShell: Use a destructive PowerShell cmdlet safely
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PowerShell has a built-in safety switch to many of its cmdlets. The –whatif parameter, which is meant to show you what would happen if you used a PowerShell cmdlet without…
PowerShell 101
How to get all groups that a user is a member of?
Open PowerShell with administrator privileges and run: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name name ---- Domain Users Domain Computers Workstation Admins Company Users Company Developers AutomatedProcessingTeam Example:
Setting Distribution Group Delivery Restrictions via PowerShell
Adjusting the delivery restrictions on distribution groups is quite a common task. The more members a group has the more of a problem this ends up being in big organisations.…
How to Copy Members of a Security Group in Active Directory
Ever ran into a task where you needed to copy all the members of a certain AD security group over to a new or existing security group? If so, you…
How To Find Nested Active Directory Group Memberships in PowerShell
Find the actual number of users in a group by locating those that may be hard to find in a hidden subgroup. As someone that manages Active Directory users and…
Quick Tip: Restarting all Microsoft Exchange services
There are times when you need to restart all Exchange related services so here are 2 small scripts that will help you achieve this without going over each service in…
Migrate new user to O365
Pre-Migration Work Create the AD user account and Exchange on-prem mailbox Confirm UPN suffix of user account matches the email address Go to O365 admin console and add the user…
Exchange 2010: Change security groups to distribution groups
Distribution groups are a well-known concept for Exchange admins. Quite simply, a distribution group is an Active Directory group that’s Exchange-enabled and therefore has an email address. Messages sent to…
Creating Test Users In Bulk Using Powershell
There is always a requirement to create test users in bulk in your lab, maybe even in live network to test something. You can quickly create mailbox users using a…
Using PowerShell to Get Mailbox Database Size and Available New Mailbox Space
As your Exchange Server mailbox databases grow you’re eventually going to be interested in finding out two things – how large the database file is, and how much available new…