Importing roles and features on a windows server has never been easier. Lot’s of people prefer the GUI interface but PowerShell makes your life so much easier. Firstly, for PowerShell to understand what you are trying to do, you need to have the correct module in place. In this instance we are working with Server […]
There are many ways in PowerShell to check the mailbox database copy status in Exchange, here are some examples from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Blanket check.Per DAG check.Per Server check. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * The above command runs across all servers and databases in the environment. Below is the next example. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Identity dag1* The above […]
Tip of the day: Need to find out about the integration services of virtual machines running a hyper-v host and filter by heartbeat, you can run this simple command: get-vm -computername Host1 | Get-VMIntegrationService -Name heartbeat* Hope it helps.
In Exchange you will do loads of Export requests to PST but over time this list grows and when you eventually want to find an export request or remove a server you can’t because it still has the export requests. To find the export requests, you can run a single command: Get-mailboxexportrequest -status completed This […]
RSS abbreviated for Receive Side Scaling has value by being enabled on a Server as it betters performance. By Default, RSS is enabled on Server 2016 and 2019 but cannot be enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2 or below. On Server 2012 or R2 you can enable it using a simple PowerShell command. First you […]
In PowerShell, you are able to disable IPv6 on a Server using a single command as follows: reg add hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFF /f Now you can take this a step further and also disable IPv6 tunneling as well and will explain why shortly: Get-NetAdapterBinding -ComponentID “ms_tcpip6” | disable-NetAdapterBinding -ComponentID “ms_tcpip6” –PassThru […]
In Exchange, you can throttle the number of connections that a HUB Transport Server can have open to a remote domain, the default value for the field “MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections” is 20. To change the value, you can run a simple command from the Exchange Management Shell(EMS): Set-TransportServer -Identity HUB1 -MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections 10 Don’t forget to restart the […]
On a Hyper-V host, you can run a command to check the replica but you can format the data in multiple ways based on what you want to see. For example, you can run the following command below to view the replicas on a host: Get-VMReplication The command above pretty much gives you quite a […]
As an Admin you can restrict access to PowerShell and what can run. With a simple command you can view the execution policy set on a server: Get-ExecutionPolicy As shown above, it is set to unrestricted on this server. To change it to restricted as an example you can run the following command in PowerShell: […]
With mailbox moves, you do get the few that fail and instead of updating each one with the -BadItemLimit switch you can do this one liner command to update them all before resuming them, here is the command: Get-MoveRequest | Set-MoveRequest -BadItemLimit 500 -AcceptLargeDataLoss Give it a few minutes to update and resume the failed […]
