If you are like me and work 99% of the time in PowerShell, you always want to do things in PowerShell. This includes adding roles/features, extracting information or simply just opening stuff. I use Telnet a lot, comes in very handy when you checking email servers and responses etc. You Read more…
Many times as Exchange Admins, we are tasked to find out if we have licenses available for new staff or we are running out of space on a server or simply just performing a cleanup and we need to know which users are inactive. In a small company this will Read more…
I put together a simple script that will add an Accepted Domain in Exchange 2019 from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) instead of using the GUI. The script does require manual input of the following fields: I have added comments to make it easier to understand, once you have filled Read more…
Have you ever had a request to display the Top X Mailbox Users in an organization? In my lab, I wanted to see which accounts were the highest with all my testing and pumping data in to test certain things and putting together a quick script helped me achieve this. Read more…
Graphical User interfaces (GUI) are nice but I also prefer working in PowerShell as you can just get so much more info than the GUI. Recently I was working with groups and it was a bit of apin to keep having to open the window in Active Directory Users and Read more…
When running installations, some systems are set to lock after a certain period of inactivity even though the installation is running in the background. Recently I was testing CIS Group Policy policies and my labs kept locking and it becomes frustrating to keep having to unlock so I have a Read more…
In Outlook, Users create Mailbox Inbox rules and then when things stop working or so they think such as “I’m no longer receiving email” but I can send without a problem. When you troubleshoot the issue, Outlook shows rules. This is where PowerShell comes in and will show you all Read more…
As an Admin, looking at Event Viewer becomes a normal thing, especially when you have issues or simply looking for intrusion like in my case where events are written to the different logs. To manually go through hundreds of thousands of logs is time consuming so I have a script Read more…
Here is a quick tip for you, if you ever want to know the uninstall string to remove an Exchange Server, you can run a simple command to get the UninstallString from the Windows Registry, the command is as follows: Get-ExchangeUninstallKey This command will produce the output below: If we Read more…
As many of you have seen that starting 1 October 2022, Microsoft will start disabling Basic Auth on Tenants. This means disruption for many users that make use of EAS and are using the native mail applications on Android and iOS. I put together a script that will help you Read more…