A while back I had published a small series of these quick PowerShell articles and thought I would drop another one onto my blog. Imagine if you will an HR system that removes users on a regular basis as these users are fired or leave the company. Now with the same system, no one has…
Category: Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server
Lab Setup – Script – Part1
While creating multiple test environments for testing various Exchange versions and products it dawned on me that as I create users, databases, etc, this will be a time-consuming and repetitive process. In order to reduce my own work load, as well as provide a useable public script, I decided to venture into creating a script…
Exchange Migration, Failed Storage, No Backup and Recovery
My Exchange Server migration experience has taken me through Exchange 4.0 –> Exchange 5.5 all the way to the more modern Exchange 2007/2010 –> Exchange 2013. One of the most important and often skipped steps is to perform backups of recently migrated mailboxes (in today’s case once the mailbox is on Exchange 2013). This is…
Exchange Server 2013 Prerequisite Script *Updated*
A while back I wrote a script to install Exchange 2013 Prerequisites on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012. This script has grown and expanded over time to include support for newer CU’s, Edge Transport Role, ETC. This version I’ve made some changes, cleaned up some code and basically made it more compatible for Exchange…
Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group Meeting
The next meeting for Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group (MMCUG) will be on Jan 28, 2015 at the AON building in Chicago, IL from 6:00 – 9:00 PM. We will have food as well as prizes to go along with the great content from our speakers. I will be speaking about Exchange 2013 Scripts…
Testing Exchange Server Updates – Part 4
In Part four of this series I will cover the remaining 10 Test Cmdlets in Exchange 2013. The remaining 10 cmdlets are as follows:
Troubleshooting SSL and OWA
A customer called me the other day with a problem. Apparently their certificate for Exchange was expiring and they had purchased a new certificate for their Exchange 2007/2010 environment. After replacing the certificate (a wildcard in this case) and restarting IIS, no one was able to connect to OWA. I was asked to figure out…
Testing Exchange Server Updates – Part 3
In part three of this series, I will cover some additional commands needed for checking the health status of various components of Exchange 2013. The commands for this article are as follows:
Testing Exchange Server Updates – Part 2
In part two of this series I will cover some more advanced testing of Exchange 2013 for purposes of testing a new update, like CU7. PowerShell One Liners Exchange 2013 comes with a series of prebuilt PowerShell commands that allow for a basis of testing various Exchange. One command in particular ‘get-OwaConnectivity’ has been removed…
App Bug in Exchange 2013 CU6
Exchange 2013 RTM introduced the concept of Apps. Apps are basically plugins or add-ons for OWA and Outlookk that are used to enhance the user’s overall experience. These apps can be disabled completed or enabled selectively in an organization. However, the selective enable function does not work properly in Exchange 2013 CU6. Prior to CU6…
