In line with the past two articles published we will examine another source of disk space usage on an Exchange or IIS servers. This seemingly innocuous source of space usage can creep up on Administrators who are unaware that Exchange Servers for example do log a lot of information to these IIS log files on…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Monitoring Exchange Database backups
Introduction In the last article of this series we explored how to handle an ever expanding set of logs and the disk space that these took up. In this article we have a short, but sweet article written to simple report on the backup status of Exchange databases. In some ways this article can also…
Exchange IMAP/POP3 Log Management
New Series – Exchange Maintenance Scripts IMAP/POP3 IMAP and POP are not the most popular (or secure) protocols to be used by an Exchange Server, however they are certainly still in use and as an engineer who supported a lot of different client bases, I still see these protocols in use. For this script however,…
New Series of Blogs Coming Next Week!
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted some new content so I am writing up a storm to make up for that gap. Right now my article queue is set at 10+ articles for the next 30 – 60 days. Consider this a bit of creative release due to having just finished updating 2 books completely…
Cloud Shell in Exchange Online
Cloud Shell …is a PowerShell interface that can be used by administrators to manage various workloads in their tenant. What makes this useful is that we no longer need a special machine with all of the various PowerShell modules ready or having to update those modules. For those who Manage Exchange Online, the access point…
Exchange Server Prerequisite Scripts – New Location
Today I added a new page to my blog where I’ve posted my Exchange Server prerequisite scripts for installed required components for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. These scripts also have the added bonus features like remediating sleepy NICs, turning off server power management, enabling RSS and more: Overall this is displayed in one…
New Book – Coming Soon
In the past two years I have produced three new PowerShell books – Exchange 2019, Security and Compliance Center and an intro to basic PowerShell. I am now in the process finalizing the post production of my Exchange Online PowerShell book, Second Edition, which is an update to the original one I created two years…
Exchange Online Management is now GA! [v1.0.0]
** UPDATE 2 !!** [2020-06-05] Well, it looks like the module is back, now as version 1.0.1. Not entirely sure why it was pulled and put back, probably a bug of some type. Go get the new version here: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement/1.0.1 ** UPDATE ** This module has been pulled. Not sure why at the moment, but…
Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer – Change in Progress
In the past few months Microsoft has been making subtle and not so subtle changes to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer. You may not even recognize it in it’s current form if you have used it in the past and are coming back to it for troubleshooting. In this blog post we will briefly examine each…
New HCW – Updating your Hybrid Configuration Wizard
Within the past month, Microsoft has released a new Hybrid Configuration Wizard or HCW. The past version of this program was version 16.x and with the latest update, Microsoft has created a brand new REV, hence the 17.x version moniker. What does this mean? It means that you will have a much better experience when…
