Category Archives: Scripting

VMworld 2012 – Powershell dinner

Posted on September 4, 2012 by brian.wuchner

My favorite part of VMworld is the people you meet. Last week I was lucky enough to meet up with many powershell/PowerCLI experts and have some awesome discussions. I wasn’t able to get everyones name/card, but I believe the first … Continue reading →

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Powershell – Measure Historical Command

Posted on August 20, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Have you ever been working in a Powershell console and have a command run longer than expected? Did you wish that you had wrapped that command in a Measure-Command so that you could view execution time? This has happened to … Continue reading →

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Improving performance with Get-MailboxFolderStatistics

Posted on June 19, 2012 by brian.wuchner

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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Improving SQL Update/Insert performance

Posted on June 14, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I was recently reviewing a Powershell script that had slow performance. The script used Get-MailboxFolderStatistics to pull information from an Exchange Server environment and insert (or update) a record in a SQL database based off the email address. The code … Continue reading →

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Get Regular Expression matches

Posted on June 8, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Recently I was given a task at work…someone pointed at a haystack and asked me to find a needle. Actually, the task involved reading the body of hundreds of email messages looking for telephone numbers. Regular expressions and powershell make … Continue reading →

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