by Edward van Biljon | Feb 4, 2022 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019
In Exchange 2016 or 2019, you have the ability to accept TLS connections on a receive connector from a particular set of IP Addresses or single IP and have it use an SSL certificate. What I have seen happen is that receive connectors are not configured correctly in a...
by Edward van Biljon | Feb 3, 2022 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2016 PowerShell, Exchange 2019
In Exchange 2019, same with Exchange 2016, you have your standard receive connectors that comes with Exchange once installed. To recap, here is the list: Default <ServerName>Client Proxy <ServerName>Default Frontend <ServerName>Outbound Proxy...
by Edward van Biljon | Jul 2, 2021 | Exchange 2016
Deleting mailboxes or recovering deleted mailboxes are something that Exchange Admins do often. For a refresher, the disconnected mailboxes will show up 24 hours after they have been removed and you can run a script to identify the disabled ones as below (script from...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 9, 2021 | PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2016 PowerShell
In Active Directory, you have the ability to enable the Recycle bin option, not only from the Active Directory Admin Center but also from PowerShell. Let’s say that you have just setup a new domain or you have an existing one and when you use PowerShell to...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 26, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In a previous article we looked at group membership for accounts in Active Directory that you can pull using PowerShell. In this short article we will look at extracting certain information for a user account or for all users in Active Directory. For all users, you...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 25, 2021 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In PowerShell, you can do many things and this includes reporting on items or updating information but specifically in Active Directory, you can pull information about users and groups etc simply by using PowerShell. Below is a script that allows you to get membership...
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 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,...
