Enterprise messaging tools, such as MS Exchange
I recently had a chance to help a small business move their 70 mailboxes to the Exchange Online service. This company was running Windows 2008 with Exchange 2007 on premises installation and we helped them migrate to Office 365/Exchange Online over a couple weekends. During the migration we ran into…
I have many scripts that write information into Active Directory. Sometimes I need to do the opposite — remove or blank out an attribute. All of the following examples will require a distinguishedName value in AD, so I will set a common variable here. You will need a valid distinguishedName…
I had an interesting request the other day. A co-worker had two CSV files containing mailbox information from the same Exchange server, but from different parts of the day. He wanted to know if there was any way to find which users had the most growth in their mailbox size.…
In a previous post I mentioned some performance improvements I made in an Exchange script that used Get-MailboxFolderStatistics. A portion of this script selected the size (in megabytes) of the top 5 folders in each users mailbox. I made a subtle change to the code that saved about 35 minutes…
I have been spending a lot of time working on Powershell scripts. Specifically, I have been re-writing many VB scripts and processes into more efficient powershell versions. In my last post I mentioned that I planed to share how I made a task that took 8 hours to execute run…