I’ve had my Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13 for a little over a year now. Generally, I’m very happy with it. It has two internal SSDs, 8GB RAM and an Intel Core i7 processor. Windows 8.1 runs very nicely on it. I use the Ideapad for my day-to-day work as well as running test labs in… Read More »
I helped a customer out with a problem recently. They had been running Windows Server Backup on an Exchange 2013 CU3 server. The backups had been configured to “VSS Full” and the scheduled jobs were showing as completing successfully. The only issue was that the mailbox database transaction logs were not be deleted/removed by the… Read More »
I had a requirement recently to try and find out where and when a whole lot of mailboxes were hidden from the GAL. Yes, fingering some poor sucker for the blame is an immensely satisfying task, isn’t it? I’ve found that an effective way to do this is to query the AD replication metadata for… Read More »
Today’s post is another short one. It’s a Powershell one-liner to find all the Primary SMTP address suffixes in use by the mailboxes in your Exchange Org. In this example I know that my default suffix is “contoso.com”, but I want to find out what others are being used as primary: get-mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | ?… Read More »
Recently I was doing some testing with a new Exchange 2010 Receive Connector and wanted a method to check how many messages it was processing. I came up with the following Powershell snippet that seems to work well. $i = 0 do { $now = get-date (Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize unlimited -Start “11/10/2012 3:00PM” -End $now -Server… Read More »
Quest Software make it hard to love them sometimes. When they made Quest Quick Connect Express for Active Directory available at no cost it was a real boon for anyone wanting to synchronise objects from AD to AD (or AD LDS instances). In particular it offered a great free method of achieving GAL Sync between… Read More »
If you are in a cross-forest mailbox migration scenario and use Exchange message classifications, this script might be useful to you. If you plan to have the same message classifications in the target Exchange Organisation then you will want the classification IDs to match. Without this, there is potential for the classification on migrated mail… Read More »
The other day I was doing some troubleshooting on a DAG member in a remote site. I needed to get a picture of the copy and replay queues for the server over a period of time. To do this I wrote a small script to poll the queues at 60 second intervals over a 24 hour period. … Read More »
I came across an anomaly with the Exchange 2007 Export-Mailbox cmdlet at a customer site recently. It created a major inconvenience for some bulk mailbox exports, so I thought I would share it here. Basically, I was able to generate two different search results depending on whether or not I specified a PST file as… Read More »
If you’re looking for a Global Address List synchronisation solution for Exchange that simply uses Powershell, look no further than this excellent script from fellow MVP Carol Wapshere. http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis/a-galsync-powershell-script The script doesn’t leverage the DirSync control (and hence doesn’t use deltas), which means that it isn’t perhaps as efficient as some of the full-blown solutions… Read More »