by Edward van Biljon | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
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...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 26, 2020 | Exchange 2010 PowerShell
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 show, for example...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 17, 2020 | Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by Edward van Biljon | Apr 17, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell
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...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 1, 2020 | PowerShell V7
I was playing around with PowerShell 6 and 7 RC which a colleague showed me was available. Firstly to get the new version, you need to run the following command below: (Note it includes the -Preview switch) iex “& { $(irm...
by Edward van Biljon | Mar 1, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
Recently we had a request to update a whole stack of servers registry keys. With PowerShell this is easy to do. In the first step you need to set the location of where you want to work. In this case it was HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Location – Location being where you want...
by Edward van Biljon | Feb 20, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2008 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
In any operating system, you may want to uninstall or remove a device like a network card for example that may be causing issues. Launching Device Manager does not show the device and as an example you cannot rename you network card because it says the device already...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 22, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell
With PowerShell you can pretty much do anything. In this article we disabled Netbios using a registry key, however you can do the same using WMI and PowerShell as well as removing the tick box for Lmhosts on a Network Card. To do this, you can run the following set of...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 29, 2019 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell
Here is a quick tip on firstly how to check which domain controller the FSMO roles are situated on and secondly, moving the FSMO roles with one command. To determine which server/s are holding the the FSMO roles, you can run the command below: netdom query fsmo This...
