The Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet is great for showing a range of detailed information about the mailboxes in your organisation. Sometimes you need to pare down the information to just the really useful stuff (such as mailbox size, item count, etc.) and push it to a CSV file. Here’s one that I find helpful: get-exchangeserver… Read More: Powershell one-liner for gathering mailbox stats »
If you’re creating contact objects in Active Directory the Exchange cmdlets New-MailContact, Set-MailContact and Set-Contact are usually sufficient. On the other hand I haven’t found a way using these cmdlets to set all the attributes that I might need. For example, the “description” attribute doesn’t appear to feature anywhere. Things have obviously changed with the… Read More: Bulk Create Active Directory Contact Objects »
The other day I applied Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 in my test lab and wanted to check that the update was successfully applied. Being something of a Powershell fan I first tried the command shown below: (get-exchangeserver MyE2K7Server).admindisplayversion The output showed Version 8.2 (Build 176.2), which is the same… Read More: How to Find Exchange Server 2007 Build Information »
The other day I had a customer ask what the recommended maximum database size is for Exchange Server 2007 mailbox stores. I knew I had seen the information somewhere on-line, so I did some Googling. Initially, I didn’t have much luck. First of all I found the article below, which recommends stores grow no… Read More: Exchange Server 2007 Recommended Maximum Mailbox Store Size »
Yesterday I fired up an old Exchange Server 2007 VM lab environment. The first thing I saw when I started the Exchange Management Console (EMC) was a pop-up message saying, “The following servers in your organization are currently unlicensed”, as shown below. After clicking OK, I got the another pop-up message saying, “The server… Read More: Exchange Server 2007 32-bit Licensing Foolishness »