by Edward van Biljon | Nov 16, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Nov 7, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
As you would have noticed in not only Exchange 2019 but 2016 that when you type a certain command you will receive a nice yellow warning to use the new cmdlet instead. For example, I ran the following command: Get-TransportServer And as you can see below, the warning:...
by edward | Oct 29, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
Quick Tip: If you want to create a room mailbox, you can do so with a simple command: New-Mailbox -Name MyRoom -DisplayName “My Room” -Room To Validate your setup, you can run the following command: Get-Mailbox myroom | fl Name,RecipientTypeDetails There...
by edward | Oct 29, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Oct 21, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Oct 3, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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.
by edward | Oct 3, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Sep 26, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Sep 26, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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”...
by edward | Sep 13, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 PowerShell
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...
