by Edward van Biljon | May 30, 2020 | Exchange 2016 PowerShell
Here is a quick PowerShell tip for viewing the status of database seeding. Sometimes you might have a seed running from a PowerShell window and then when you check the green progress bar is no longer visible as you might have had a refresh on domain controllers or you...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 26, 2020 | Exchange 2010 PowerShell
If you manage quite a few Exchange 2010 CAS servers, logging into each one to test that OWA works can be quite cumbersome. I put together a script that can check all of them and email you a report. Here is an example: The URL for each CAS server will show, for example...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 17, 2020 | Exchange 2016 PowerShell
In Exchange 2016, there are a couple of cmdlets you can run to check that you servers are in a healthy state. In 1x example, you could run the following command to check the Outlook Web Services: Test-OutlookWebServices If you want to specify a specific server then...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 17, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell
In one of my previous posts we installed PowerShell 7 on Windows 10. In my lab I installed PowerShell 7 on my Exchange 2016 Server. While there is no support for Exchange yet, Active Directory cmdlets work. To install the preview you can run the command below from an...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 1, 2020 | PowerShell V7
I was playing around with PowerShell 6 and 7 RC which a colleague showed me was available. Firstly to get the new version, you need to run the following command below: (Note it includes the -Preview switch) iex “& { $(irm...
