In the first part of this series, I described how you can add and remove members to and from Active Directory groups in PowerShell, without using the ActiveDirectory module, by using the .Net namespace System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. In this part I want …
A few days ago, I had to configure a few mailboxes for enabling message copy while sending. However, this is not the point at this moment. When I ran the PowerShell command, I got the following output: The error …
The most popular way to manage Active Directory with PowerShell is to use the cmdlets provided by the PowerShell module ActiveDirectory. Most of you probably know some of these cmdlets and have already used them quite a bit. If so, …
Working as a consultant for multiple customers forces us to connect multiple times a day to different Exchange Online management shell’s. Everyone has his own way to save the connection command for the Exchange Online PowerShell. I had the command …
Few weeks ago, I was working on a migration project between two independent domains. The project by itself was huge because there were multiple teams working on too. In this project, we had to migrate the Active Directory including the …
The single biggest threat to our business’s online security is malicious emails. As responsible Messaging Administrators/Engineers/Architects, it’s up to us to require email security best practices among our users and institute a security-minded culture within our organization. Contrary to …
Some days ago one of our users has opened a ticket that he is not able to change his Outlook language settings across the Outlook Web App (OWA). After logging in to OWA he chose in the right corner the …
I just had to do some additional work in a project we have just finished. One of the main tasks has been adjusting some permissions for shared mailboxes. In this article, I wrote down some usefull PowerShell commands for managing …
This short article is about a returning question about how to add or remove smtp alias addresses using the Exchange management shell. Before we start, we need to check how the mailbox is configured and which the mail address …
In the company I am working for, we have some multiple Exchange projects. To set them up in a standardized way, we are installing them with some PowerShell scripts.We can do the same for some configuration tasks. Dominic and I …
If we want to import PST files into an Exchange mailbox, we can use the PowerShell CMDlet New-MailboxImportRequest. The PST files that we want to import must be available through a file share, because the CMDlets only accept UNC paths. …
The story is often the same one: I get invited for a workshop from a customer about projects for messaging and/or Office 365 topics and one of the main questions is about on-premises Exchange, Hybrid Exchange and/or Exchange online. However, …