Dave Stork and I are currently producing a Monthly email Newsletter with practical PowerShell information in it. The April 2017 edition will provide useful links for learning PowerShell as well as provide a glimpse into the new PowerShell cmdlets that Microsoft has revealed in the past month. IF you like this sort of stuff and…
Category: Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server
Upgrade of Azure AD Sync to Connect – Sync Failure Days Later
Microsoft recently announced and removed support for DirSync and Azure AD Sync. The upgrade path for these two is simply upgrading to Azure AD Connect. Depending on your version of software and even Windows OS, there are multiple paths that can be taken. Recently I was working with a client on upgrading their Azure AD…
The Ever Changing Mix of Office 365 PowerShell Cmdlets
In the past month, I’ve written a couple of articles on the changing cmdlets mix for the various Office 365 workloads. For the major workloads in Office 365, here is what I’ve noticed over the past two months:
New Look Coming Soon
** UPDATE 4/27/17 ** After writing this article, I started looking at other themes available on WordPress and decided that the ‘Zoren’ theme was more to my liking. , so you can ignore the original post and screenshot. Original Article Over the next week or so I will be implementing a new look to the…
Exchange 2007 Support Ends Today
Thoughts On Exchange 2007, in 2007 I first cut my teeth on PowerShell way back when Exchange 2007 was introduced. Back then AutoDiscover had just been introduced and companies were using ISA Servers to secure connections to Exchange. I remember thinking about these two big changes that AutoDiscover was going to be a good thing,…
New ‘Sweep’ PowerShell Cmdlets
Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly added a new set of PowerShell cmdlets to their Exchange Online PowerShell module. These cmdlets are designed to complement a feature that was included in Office 365’s Outlook on the Web client. The feature the PowerShell cmdlets affect is called ‘Sweep’ which provides web users of Exchange Online a way…
Exchange 2010 to 2016 Migrations – Loadbalancer Fun
Over the past three months I have worked with multiple migrations to Office 365 and Exchange 2016. Each environment had its unique challenges and problems to overcome, but between myself and the IT team of the company migrating, the issues were all resolved. The commonality for all of these migrations was the load balancer. That…
BitTitan Migration to Office 365 – “The XML document ended unexpectedly”
While performing a migration from Exchange 2007 to Office 365 using BitTitan Migration Wiz, a strange error was generated for each mailbox that was being migrated. The error message is cryptic at best – “The XML document ended unexpectedly”. That error looked like this in the wizard: There are quite a few articles, blog posts,…
Best Practices Analyzer(s) for Multiple Servers
Earlier this week I posted an article on how to run the various Best Practices Analyzers (BPAs for short) on a single server. For this post we are going to take what we learned from that and apply it to multiple servers. The hardest part about this script is that the BPA cmdlets need to…
Paperback – Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016 – Available Now!
If you like to obtain a paperback copy of our Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016 book, go ahead and check it out at our site. The book comes in the 8.5″x11″ format and at 472 total pages, it is a good size book. I think the larger format makes easier to work with and read…
