Monthly Archives: October 2014

How old is my Active Directory Forest?

It’s sometimes interesting to know how old your AD forest is and when the various domains were created.  I recently came across a really useful TechNet Blog with a Powershell snippet to do just this.  My version shown below just has some slightly different formatting. # How old is the forest? Get-ADObject -SearchBase (Get-ADForest).PartitionsContainer `… Read More: How old is my Active Directory Forest? »

How to change the Exchange 2013 OAB Generation Schedule

To be honest I’m only writing this one because I know I’ll get confused in the future and will want to refer to something authoritative. 🙂 There are two configurable values when considering how to change the Exchange Server 2013 Offline Address Book (OAB) generation schedule from its default of 1 day.  These are: OABGeneratorWorkCycle… Read More: How to change the Exchange 2013 OAB Generation Schedule »

How to send from a different address using Exchange 2013 Outlook Web App (OWA)

If you have Send As permissions on another recipient object (e.g. mailbox, distribution group) you have the ability to specify that object’s primary SMTP address as your “From” address when sending from Outlook and Outlook Web App (OWA).  How you achieve this in OWA is not immediately obvious, so here are some (hopefully helpful) screenshots. … Read More: How to send from a different address using Exchange 2013… »