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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Task schedular is brilliant because you can schedule things to run on certain days and times but what about if you looking for a scheduled task but there are so many folders to sift through to find them? PowerShell is Read more…
If you have backups in Exchange, you know that you can go to the backup and recover items, either by creating a recoverable mailbox database or performing item level restore to a mailbox or PST file. In Exchange 2016, can Read more…
In PowerShell you have a few options to increase the values of certain settings, in this example we will be looking at MaxMemoryPerShellMB setting that needs to be increased. The default value of 150mb might be fine in a small Read more…
If you are running PowerShell V7 like I am, when you launch it you will see a white box similar to the one below: In this article, we will be upgrading using the command line and below is the command: Read more…
In my previous blog post on running Python scripts from PowerShell (Article Here), I was keen to test out the same thing but using PowerShell V7 instead of PowerShell V5.1 that comes with Windows 10. I used the same script Read more…
With commands run in PowerShell, I’m referring to the version that comes with Windows 10 (5.1), most scripts or commands run without error unless there is a problem with the script or command. I used a script from Idera to Read more…
In a previous article, we used Windows 10 which has PowerShell 5.1 to create a new email message. Here is the link to the article: https://everything-powershell.com/powershell-create-an-email-using-powershell/ In this article we will perform the same function but we will use PowerShell Read more…