If you are like me and work 99% of the time in PowerShell, you always want to do things in PowerShell. This includes adding roles/features, extracting information or simply just opening stuff. I use Telnet a lot, comes in very handy when you checking email servers and responses etc. You Read more…
Many times as Exchange Admins, we are tasked to find out if we have licenses available for new staff or we are running out of space on a server or simply just performing a cleanup and we need to know which users are inactive. In a small company this will Read more…
In my previous blog post, we posted a script that would enable moderation on a Distribution Group and set a Moderator. In this blog post, we will use PowerShell to find all Distribution Groups that have moderation enabled as well as show the moderators of those groups. Below is an Read more…
Moderation on groups, especially global company comms groups is a good thing because it means that not just anyone can email them. Many companies only allow HR, IT, Security or other groups to send email to everyone in the company. I put together a script that will not only set Read more…
I put together a simple script that will add an Accepted Domain in Exchange 2019 from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) instead of using the GUI. The script does require manual input of the following fields: I have added comments to make it easier to understand, once you have filled Read more…
Graphical User interfaces (GUI) are nice but I also prefer working in PowerShell as you can just get so much more info than the GUI. Recently I was working with groups and it was a bit of apin to keep having to open the window in Active Directory Users and Read more…
When running installations, some systems are set to lock after a certain period of inactivity even though the installation is running in the background. Recently I was testing CIS Group Policy policies and my labs kept locking and it becomes frustrating to keep having to unlock so I have a Read more…
I have been working on a script to document a Microsoft Exchange environment using PowerShell and while it does the job of providing the information required, some manual input is needed and the output formatting is still work in progress. Landscape view displays the information better. The script requires Microsoft Read more…
As an Admin, looking at Event Viewer becomes a normal thing, especially when you have issues or simply looking for intrusion like in my case where events are written to the different logs. To manually go through hundreds of thousands of logs is time consuming so I have a script Read more…
PowerShell has the ability to perform so many functions, from WMI queries to fetching information etc. On Windows Server Core, whether it is Windows Server 2022, 2019 2016, because many of the GUI features are not available, you cannot just open a browser to do something for example. In my Read more…