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, you probably also know that this module is only available after you install the Active […]
19/02/2019
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 always saved in a ready to use Notepad document. However, since I am always using […]
12/02/2019
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 SID history, Exchange SAP Skype for business and much more other things. However, because […]
29/01/2019
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 popular myth, the most effective hacking techniques require almost no technical skill. A hacker needs […]
21/01/2019
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 options to change his settings. When he went to Options > General > Region and […]
17/01/2019
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 shared mailboxes. What is a shared mailbox? A shared mailbox is a type of […]
15/01/2019
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 aliases we have already set are. To do that we can run the following PowerShell […]
03/01/2019
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 wrote a script, which will do some necessary configurations for us. This will save a […]
13/12/2018
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. To import a PST file, we use the following command: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox ‘Name of Mailbox’ […]
08/11/2018
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, there is a confusion in the IT world out there about these topics. The question […]
01/11/2018
Many companies are still using the on-premise version of Exchange Server. And the IT departments have faced the decision of migrating currently used variant. You ask yourself the question: is a migration to Exchange 2019 worthwhile? And if so, how much effort does a migration mean? Some days ago Microsoft has released the 2019 version […]
24/10/2018
On October 31 Microsoft will disable TLS 1.1 for Exchange. If you have not changed your environment to TLS 1.2 yet, you should do that asap! Here, the way how you can do this for Exchange server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2: Disable SSL 3.0 The most steps we need to do are […]
22/10/2018