by edward | Mar 11, 2019 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
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...
by edward | Mar 7, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell, Exchange 2010 PowerShell, Exchange 2013 PowerShell, Exchange 2016 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...
by edward | Feb 4, 2019 | Exchange 2010 PowerShell
As an Exchange admin, you will always come across mail stuck in a queue, there are so many reasons why this could happen but if you do need to export mail from a queue and not just simply delete it then you can do so running the following PowerShell command from the...
by edward | Jan 22, 2019 | Exchange 2016 PowerShell
Exchange comes with default tarpit levels which work for some organizations but not others, you can change these if you see a delay in delivery, to change it is very easy and you need to do this with PowerShell. Launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the...
by edward | Jan 19, 2019 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell
With Malware getting smarter each time and out running the Anti-Virus and embedding itself in the Operating System that it thinks its Legit, there is a way to remove it when it writes an encrypted entry or multiple entries to the WMI database. To remove it you will...
by edward | Jan 16, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
In this example, we are going to connect/recover a mailbox that we deleted in the previous blog post. As an example, we created a new test user as shown below to connect to a mailbox. To do this you can use PowerShell to create the user or use Active Directory Users...
by edward | Jan 14, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
In Exchange 2019, like other versions like 2016 or 2013, you can delete a mailbox using a single command. To firstly find the list of mailboxes you can run the following command: Get-Mailbox In this example we are going to remove the mailbox called...
by edward | Jan 13, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
In Exchange, I pretty much do everything with PowerShell. A quick tip if you want to make sure everything is running, service wise, you can do so in Powershell: Get-Service *MSExchange* Just by running a simple command you have a complete overview of what is not...
by edward | Jan 5, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
In Exchange, whether it is 2013 or higher, you may look at enabling Circular logging on your databases. While this will constantly flush the logs, you cannot run Circular logging and have backups running as they will be inconsistent all the time. To firstly check if...
by edward | Jan 4, 2019 | Exchange 2019 PowerShell
In Exchange, you might come across mail stuck in your queue that only show <> and nothing else. This is most likely your journal mail but for some reason it is stuck and does not want to clear from the Transport Queue, you can run the following command to remove...
