Exchange 2016 – Set the tarpit levels with PowerShell
Exchange comes with default tarpit levels which work for some organizations but not others, you can change these if you see a delay in delivery, to change it is very easy and you need...
Monthly Archive: Jan 2019
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016 – Remove Malware embedded in WMI with PowerShell
With Malware getting smarter each time and out running the Anti-Virus and embedding itself in the Operating System that it thinks its Legit, there is a way to remove it when it writes an...
Exchange 2019 – Connect a deleted mailbox or recover it
In this example, we are going to connect/recover a mailbox that we deleted in the previous blog post. As an example, we created a new test user as shown below to connect to a...
Exchange 2019 – Delete a mailbox using PowerShell
In Exchange 2019, like other versions like 2016 or 2013, you can delete a mailbox using a single command. To firstly find the list of mailboxes you can run the following command: Get-Mailbox In...
Exchange 2019 – Check the Services with PowerShell
In Exchange, I pretty much do everything with PowerShell. A quick tip if you want to make sure everything is running, service wise, you can do so in Powershell: Get-Service *MSExchange* Just by running...
Exchange 2019 – Enable Circular logging on a Database
In Exchange, whether it is 2013 or higher, you may look at enabling Circular logging on your databases. While this will constantly flush the logs, you cannot run Circular logging and have backups running...
Exchange 2019 – Remove Ambiguous Address from Transport Queue with PowerShell
In Exchange, you might come across mail stuck in your queue that only show <> and nothing else. This is most likely your journal mail but for some reason it is stuck and does...
PowerShell – Setting all offline disks online with single command
In Exchange, if you have created a large number of disks to cater for your DAG or multiple DAG’s, setting them online one by one can be a very time consuming job. With PowerShell...
Exchange 2019 – Grant user access to Export Mailboxes
In Exchange, not only Exchange 2019 but earlier versions as well, an Organization Admin does not have the ability to export mailboxes as no rights are granted by default. If you try and run...
Exchange 2019 – Check the Admin Display Version with PowerShell
In Exchange, you may be running multiple versions like Exchange 2016 and 2019 or 2013 and 2016 and you need to get information about your build of Exchange, you can do so with a...
