Exchange 2016 PowerShell – Everything-PowerShell

Posted on Apr 17, 2020 by Edward van Biljon

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 the command below: Test-OutlookWebServices -ClientAccessServer […]

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Posted on Nov 16, 2019 by Edward van Biljon

Quick tip for the day. Ever wanted to remove an alias from a Distribution Group and wondered how to do this with the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). It is pretty simple, you run the following command below: Set-distributiongroup GroupEmailAddress –EmailAddresses @{remove=’AliasAddress’} Replace the “GroupEmailAddress” with the Primary SMTP address and then the AliasAddress is the […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedExchange 2019, Remove alias from Distribution group

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Posted on Oct 29, 2019 by edward

In the world we live in today, information is vital and having your email open for everyone to view is also not such a good thing. In Exchange you have the option to set a timeout value so that if you are in-active for a certain period then the OWA page will log you out. […]

Category:Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedActivityBasedAuthenticationTimeoutInterval, Exchange 2019, Exchange 2019 OWA timeout

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Posted on Oct 21, 2019 by edward

I have a strange problem in my lab where my main account is part of the org admin group however I cannot run half the commands, I thought I would reset everything with the commands below but have not seen any change. Still cannot do much. However in my Exchange 2016 lab, it worked just […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedExchange 2016, Exchange 2019, Rbac roles, Reset RBAC roles

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Posted on Oct 3, 2019 by edward

Here is a quick tip for checking the last backup on an Exchange database using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | FT name, Last* Simple enough and there you have the information. Hope it helps.

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedCheck backup status of an exchange database, Exchange management Shell, Last Full backup Exchange

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Posted on Oct 3, 2019 by edward

Ever had it where you want to remove a database and it just doesn’t work? Well this happened this morning. I got a weird error saying that the database is in a backup status? Well it wasn’t but here is the error: This is a lab so no backups are running, to fix the above […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedExchange 2016, Remove-MailboxDatabase, The Database is in a backup state

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Posted on Sep 26, 2019 by edward

When you do maintenance on an Exchange server, you would expect everything to be fine after a reboot? Correct? Well in some cases that does not happen. For example, one of my Database availability Groups (DAG) had the passive copy all in a Suspended state. How do you check the DAG status? Get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus * To […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedResume mailbox database copy

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Posted on Sep 26, 2019 by edward

Quick tip when exporting certain folders to a PST file in Exchange. Ensure that RBAC is setup for the Mailbox Import/export to work. Ensure your share is setup. Here is the command to export, just like a normal PST export but you including folders” New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox User1 -IncludeFolders “#Calendar#” -FilePath \Ex2019\pst\user1Calendar.pst If you go to […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedExport exchange mailbox, export mailbox calendar, New-MailboxExportRequest

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Posted on Sep 13, 2019 by edward

Quick tip: If you have a DAG with a ContentIndexState showing failed, you can fix it with a simple command in the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity “DAGNAME\store” -CatalogOnly This will then start a re-seed and it should return to a healthy state once complete.

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Posted on Sep 10, 2019 by edward

Ever wanted to quickly find all mailboxes and view the mailbox rights for each of those? Now you can with a PowerShell command that will show it to you. Here is the command below: ForEach($mailbox in (Get-Mailbox)) { Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “$($mailbox):\calendar” | fl Identity,AccessRights,FolderName } There you have the output, I only have 3 accounts […]

Category:Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019 PowerShell

TaggedGet-Mailbox, Get-mailboxfolderpermission

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