There are times when you need a quick one-liner to add Active Directory group membership based on users selected by some data. In this case I needed to move AD users into AD Distribution lists based on their email (mail attribute) externally managed information. The following script finds the users be looking at the LDAP filter of mail = *@domaintochek.com …
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How to remove the SMTP Service from Windows 2012 R2… Had to install a SMTP gateway on a Windows 2012 R2 host which already had OS SMTP service installed for testing a firewall. Normally, I would have removed via Windows Features/Roles system but the option to remove feature wad greyed out. However, using PowerShell I was able to remove the service with …
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There are times where I need to compare Domino Address Books (NAB) to Active Directory. Using PowerShell to connect to Domino NAB solves this with ease, although we have to use logon details with no authentication method. A little strange but Domino accepts the ‘[System.DirectoryServices.AuthenticationTypes]::None’ fromPowerShell. [crayon-662a2189d3ef3312833576/] Changing DominoSrv01, Organisation Name, Username and Password for the environment. [crayon-662a2189d3ef6350323259/] Make a connection …
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I’ve been working on some PowerShell scripts for use with Office 365 and needed to invoke/test Office 365 (Exchange Online) cmdlets via RemotePowerShell. This post relates to connections to Office 365 and Exchange online. My previous post How to invoke test exchange 2010 cmdlets via remote PowerShell 2.0 window, however the following allows for the credentials to be different from the …
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Being able to look up and download the version of Exchange required for Exchange Labs for Customers has always been a bit a lengthly process. Today I found website with all the version numbers and links to the Download locations on the Microsoft website. The site is: http://eightwone.com/references/versions-builds-dates/
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Exchange 2010 appears to have new command to allow the checking of free space within EDB file (whitespace). This can be checked with the following Exchange 2010 powershell command: Get-MailboxDatabase mbx* -status | fl name, databasesize, availablenewmailboxspace An example of command results: Name : MBX1 DatabaseSize : 218.6 GB (234,757,357,568 bytes) AvailableNewMailboxSpace : 63.58 GB (68,263,870,464 bytes)
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