For those new to Teams or those admins that prefer PowerShell like myself, you can now install the PowerShell module for Teams and see the list of commands available. Firstly launch PowerShell elevated and once done, you can run the following command: Install-Module MicrosoftTeams You will be prompted for repositories, Read more…
When you configure your POP/IMAP Service on Exchange 2019, manually going to services and changing the startup from Manual to Automatic just takes time. With PowerShell, you could add this to a script so when you license your server and enable your SSL certificate, why not just update the services? Read more…
Quick PowerShell Script!! If you have a temp directory that has many items in, selecting all from Explorer and then deleting them takes longer than using a simple PowerShell command: Here is the command you can run: Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\Windows\Temp” *.* -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse If there are files Read more…
Here is a quick tip on how you can open the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) on Windows Server 2019 Core. In your Elevated command prompt, type in PowerShell and Press Enter. Next, type in the following command and then press enter: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn Your window should look similar to this: Read more…
Mailbox migrations in an Organization are part of many Exchange Admins duties, this can be to a newer version of Exchange or simply migrating off a large database to smaller ones. If you are looking after a big organization and need to monitor migrations, PowerShell is not always easy for Read more…
Here is a quick tip, if you need to view your Outlook Provider Settings in Exchange 2016 or other versions, you can run a simple command as shown below to find the value: Get-OutlookProvider The value will show after msstd:, it can be for example mail.domain.com or whatever you have Read more…
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 have Read more…
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 Read more…
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 you can run Read more…
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 elevated Read more…