As part of a recent domain migration, I had to convert a number of linked mailboxes to standard “user” mailboxes. The well known method for converting linked mailboxes is to disconnect the mailbox, change the type and then reconnect. This is fine you just have a few linked mailboxes to deal with, but not if… Read More »
In a migration scenario it is sometimes useful to have a security and/or distribution Active Directory group in the target domain where the membership is comprised of migrated user objects. Here’s a Powershell 2.0 script that I put together that populates the membership of a group based on a specific sIDHistory value. It can be run… Read More »
This is an updated version of the script that I wrote for Exchange Server 2007. The new version works for both E2007, E2010 as well as environments where both versions coexist. Ok, so the script is a bit messy and could use some polish – but, hey, it works for me 🙂 ########################################################## # Name:… Read More »
Sometimes it’s useful to pre-create computer objects in the correct OU before joining them to the domain. This way, you know that they will immediately pick up whatever Group Policies have been assigned to the OU. Of course, you can create the computer objects in AD manually using Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc) or… Read More »
***This article has been superseded by a more recent one on the same topic. Click here for details *** It is sometimes useful to have the ability to populate group membership based on the OU in which the prospective members are located. A good example of where this might be useful is with Fine-Grained Password… Read More »
A little while back I posted a Powershell 1.0 script to backup all the GPOs in a domain. Now that Powershell 2.0 is available together with the Group Policy module it is much easier to script Group Policy tasks. The attached script is basically a re-write of my previous script, but now using the… Read More »
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 »
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 »