by Edward van Biljon | Jan 21, 2021 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
I had a request to check connectivity to a SQL server and to email the results, however I thought of doing something different. Have the application check the connectivity but create an Event ID and Event Log entry on Success and Failure and you can monitor that with...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 20, 2021 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
In Exchange, you may notice that when you try and book a meeting room, you cannot go higher than 180 days. This is by default. To change this, you can run a simple PowerShell command and increase the value, take note you cannot go higher than 1080 days. The command to...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 7, 2021 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
In Exchange 2016 or even Exchange 2019, when you run cmdlets like Get-TransportServer you will receive a nice yellow warning to use the newer cmdlets. So Get-TransportServer has changed to Get-TransportService. If you head over to the event logs, the application log,...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 6, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Windows 10 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Task schedular is brilliant because you can schedule things to run on certain days and times but what about if you looking for a scheduled task but there are so many folders to sift through to find them? PowerShell is the answer, you can run a single command to find...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 5, 2021 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
If you have backups in Exchange, you know that you can go to the backup and recover items, either by creating a recoverable mailbox database or performing item level restore to a mailbox or PST file. In Exchange 2016, can also be Exchange 2019 or Exchange 2013, you...
