Category Archives: Messaging

Enterprise messaging tools, such as MS Exchange

Migration to Office 365/Exchange Online

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 … Continue reading

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Using ADSI to clear an attribute

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 … Continue reading

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Compare two CSV files to trend mailbox growth

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 … Continue reading

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Improving performance with Get-MailboxFolderStatistics

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 … Continue reading

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Working with the lastLogon attribute in PowerShell

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 … Continue reading

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