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How can I be notified any time a service goes down? There are a couple different ways you can do this, but perhaps the simplest approach is to create a script that monitors WMI events. We don’t have time to do a detailed explanation of WMI events in this column, but the basic idea is that you can ask WMI […]
Read moreSome cmdlets have too many parameters to list. Is there an easy way to build a cmdlet with its parameters for the console? Just use the Show-Command cmdlet with any PowerShell cmdlet to get a GUI interface. In the following example, we use this with the Import-MDTDriver cmdlet. When you are done, you will have three options: Run, Copy (for the […]
Read morePowerShell 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 actually executing the cmdlet. An example of this in action is in the following Remove-Item cmdlet. This will attempt to remove the document, HSG-Article-Sean-Should-Not-Lose.docx, without actually removing it. Remove-Item .\HSG-Article-Sean-Should-Not-Lose.docx […]
Read moreOpen PowerShell with administrator privileges and run: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name name —- Domain Users Domain Computers Workstation Admins Company Users Company Developers AutomatedProcessingTeam Example:
Read moreAdjusting 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. Setting the permissions in the Exchange Management Console (EMC) is simple enough when you have one or two people/groups to add to the allowed list. When you have many user/groups […]
Read moreEver 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 can use the powershell command below to complete this task. Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “ExistingGroup” | Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -MemberOf “NewGroup”
Read moreFind 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 groups, trying to figure out the true membership of a particular group can be hard. Why? It’s because of the way in which Active Directory allows groups to nested inside […]
Read moreThere 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 the Services mmc. Of course restarting the “Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology” will restart a most of them but these 2 will restart them all. Restarting All Running Services […]
Read morePre-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 license Migrate users 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 […]
Read moreDistribution 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 the group are delivered to group members, which can be mailbox users, mail users (users with an email address outside the Exchange org), mail contacts, distribution groups and mail-enabled public […]
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