by Edward van Biljon | Mar 17, 2021 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
In Exchange, whether it is Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019, you may come across the request to set an Out off Office (OOF or OOO) for users. Generally when you set OOF for a user, they can do this from Outlook directly but there may come...
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 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...
by Edward van Biljon | Jul 17, 2020 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
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...