I was tasked with updating a number of mobile numbers in Active Directory and the easiest way that this was accomplished was by using a CSV file and PowerShell. The CSV consisted of two columns. One for the UPN and another for the mobile number. With any script, I normally Read more…
For many organizations, ActiveSync plays a big part in terms of communication where end users either have email on company owned devices or personal devices. Policies can be applied to certain users, for example, Executives or Senior Management may have a different Mobile device policy than what end users have. Read more…
Shared mailboxes in Office 365 and Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019 are rather common. You may have end users that can “Send on behalf” or “Send As” the mailbox. A common query that comes up often when a user sends an email is that the Sent Items folder is blank Read more…
In my previous article, we looked at configuring our TLSReceiveDomainSecureList and if you have one or two domains listed, you can view them easily, however if you have multiple items, the first few are shown and then you have …. at the end. What am I talking about? Take a Read more…
In Exchange 2016 or 2019, you have the ability to accept TLS connections on a receive connector from a particular set of IP Addresses or single IP and have it use an SSL certificate. What I have seen happen is that receive connectors are not configured correctly in a sense, Read more…
In Exchange 2019, same with Exchange 2016, you have your standard receive connectors that comes with Exchange once installed. To recap, here is the list: Default <ServerName> Client Proxy <ServerName> Default Frontend <ServerName> Outbound Proxy Frontend <ServerName> Client Frontend <ServerName> As advised by Microsoft and other MVP’s, you shouldn’t remove Read more…
When you configure your POP/IMAP Service on Exchange 2019, manually going to services and changing the startup from Manual to Automatic just takes time. With PowerShell, you could add this to a script so when you license your server and enable your SSL certificate, why not just update the services? Read more…
Here is a quick tip on how you can open the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) on Windows Server 2019 Core. In your Elevated command prompt, type in PowerShell and Press Enter. Next, type in the following command and then press enter: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn Your window should look similar to this: Read more…
Mailbox migrations in an Organization are part of many Exchange Admins duties, this can be to a newer version of Exchange or simply migrating off a large database to smaller ones. If you are looking after a big organization and need to monitor migrations, PowerShell is not always easy for Read more…
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 @{remove=’AliasAddress’} Replace the “GroupEmailAddress” with the Primary SMTP address and Read more…