If you’re administrating an Exchange organisation there are different ways to do it. The simple way is to use the webbrowser for the ECP. But what about PowerShell? The most common ways are to connect remotley to the Exchange server and then start the Exchange Management Shell or to use the Import-PSSession cmdlet to use […]
28/09/2017
Earlier this month I had to make some cleanups in a customer’s Exchange infrastructure. On one side, I had to identify empty Distribution Groups and on the other side I had to clean up unused Mobile Devices (Active Sync) partnerships. The Exchange Organization contains more than 5’000 warm Body (User) Mailboxes from which almost everyone has […]
12/09/2017
In some situations we have to Export all the Distribution group and all the members of it to a CSV file. There is no command let available to retrieve the distribution group and distribution group members in bulk. Pipe line won’t work in this case. DisplayName Alias RecipientType Recipient OU Primary SMTP address Distribution Group […]
08/09/2017
I recently had a problem with an Exchange Online tenant. There was an external mail contact which was previously synchronised from Active Directory to Exchange Online. So I had deleted the on-premise active directory mail contact but it still existed in Exchange Online. When I tried to delete the contact it gave the following errror message. […]
31/08/2017
On the Microsoft Technet I found this very interesting Post about Microsoft Teams. I reposted this Article here by me in the Blog. It was written by Cian Allner. If you would like to see the original Article, just follow this Link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37465.microsoft-teams-survival-guide.aspx This “Survival Guide” aims to gather useful materials related to […]
29/08/2017
In August 2017 Microsoft released a new Product in their Portfolio. They call it ‘Microsoft 365’. But what is ‘Microsoft 365’? Microsoft 365 is a complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely. By discovering the Portfolio I found […]
28/08/2017
PowerShell on Samsung Galaxy and iPhone? PowerShell Web Access is a new Windows Server Feature. It provides a web-based PowerShell Console. After installing, you can access PowerShell from any device, even from your Samsung Galaxy or iPhone. The setup is a three step process: Installing PowerShell Web Access (and its sub-features) Installing the certificate Configuring […]
24/07/2017
As Web Application Proxy is a standard Windows Server role service, you can use many Windows Server PowerShell tools to control Web Application Proxy: Shows Web Application Proxy Windows services status Get-Service’appproxysvc’,’appproxyctrl’,’adfssrv’|fl-property* Shows the configuration of Web Application Proxy Windows service Get-WmiObject-ClassWin32_Service-PropertyStartMode-Filter”Name=’appproxysvc’” Get Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results for the Remote Access role Invoke-BpaModel Microsoft/Windows/RemoteAccessServer […]
24/07/2017
You can check in a very easy Way all of your Exchange Virtual Directories by using my Script I share with you in this Post. It shows you in a simple way all current Vdir’s on your local Server or all Servers of your Exchange Organisation. During the Script you will be asked if you […]
27/06/2017
To create Mail Address Policies on Exchange I prefer to use PowerShell. If you go this Way, there are some small Showstopper you have to know about it. For example how to Manage Resources and the internal Domain? Then also witch Format to use for the Mail Policies? I made a short Script to create […]
23/06/2017
How to create fast and clean a new Exchange DAG? – Use PowerShell! Since the last Versions of Exchange we don’t need to configure a dedicated Network Adapter. More about that you can find here. I wrote a small simple Script to create a DAG with two Exchange server. To download the Script just go […]
23/06/2017
If FSMO role holder DC goes under upgradation process or down, we think about FSMO roles as its important and we know the traditional NTDSUTIL way of transferring and seizing FSMO roles which takes few minutes. To transfer all 5 of the FSMO roles. Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity “Target_DC_name” –OperationMasterRole PDCEmulator,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,SchemaMaster,DomainNamingMaster transfer all 5 FSMO roles using […]
21/06/2017