A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
Today we will find empty groups in Active Directory using Powershell. You all may know that we as System Administrators are required to create groups in the Active Directory for all sorts of purposes and reasons. But over time, do people who request for these groups really utilise them? It is bound to happen that your domain will be filled […]
Read moreI ran across a requirement where in I had to find out whether the emails generated from one mailbox were getting delivered to the recipient mailbox successfully or not. As you must be aware that all the mails that are sent or received in an Exchange organization has to be routed from the Hub Transport Server. But first, let me […]
Read moreAfter recently deploying a hybrid configuration for Office 365, many email settings that were easily configurable within Office 365 portal could not be changed as these settings were being managed by on-premise Active Directory servers. To get past this restriction, the next best option is to access the Exchange Online via PowerShell. Note: PowerShell 3.0 is required. For Windows Server […]
Read moreHere is a quick PowerShell script to help you query the last logon time for all of your users across all of your domain controllers. It will also save the output to a .csv file specified in the $exportFilePath string. I was surprised not to find many examples of this across the web already. Either not many people have multiple […]
Read moreI recently ran into a problem where some user’s were beginning to receive email messages from Exchange, informing them that their Meeting Request’s were being forwarded to additional recipients. See below for the fix. Exchange 2007 Verify the setting is turned on or off: Get-MailboxCalendarSettings user | fl Remove the setting: Set-MailboxCalendarSettings rscherer –RemoveForwardedMeetingNotificiations:$true Exchange 2010/ […]
Read moreI threw a quick PowerShell function together that would allow me to restart one service on 1 or more servers in one command. I hadn’t found an easy way to do this in PowerShell before so I threw this together. What I did was pasted the function code into my PowerShell profile at c:\users\%USERNAME%\Documents\WindowsPowershell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profiles.ps1 to ensure it was loaded each […]
Read moreOpen PowerShell as Admin import system modules or Import-modules activedirectory Command: Get-ADUser -Identity cduran -Properties memberof | Select-Object -ExpandProperty memberof | Add-ADGroupMember -Members cdurantest
Read moreYou can use EMC for this or use powershell to view the status of a user acct’s O365 migration progress get-user -identity username | get-moverequeststatistics
Read moreIf you run into an issue where a user has both a mailbox in Exchange on-premise and O365, and you cannot migrate the account to O365. Error: “Target user already has a primary mailbox” FIX: Remove the O365 account and then do a full DirSync. Once done, migrate the on-prem mailbox to O365. Open PowerShell in Connect-MSOLService -Credential $adminCredential (enter […]
Read moreIf you have the need to remove a specific calendar event/appointment from a mailbox, you can do it through Power Shell or Exchange Management Shell. 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 = […]
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