If you work for a firm in the financial industry (trading, insurance, etc) you know that auditing is a part of life. Sometimes this is because your company is public or required by law to do so, sometimes its because you have an internal auditing process initiated by internal procedures. Exchange 2010 has two kinds…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Quick PowerShell Stuff 5 – Message Tracking Logs
One of the things I like to do for a geographically dispersed Exchange environment is to find a way to standardize as many parts as possible. One of most useful ones to standardize is Message Tracking Logs. Let’s take a look at how we can approach this. How do we find out what our Exchange…
Special Mailboxes in Exchange 2013
Just like in Exchange 2010, there are hidden and special mailboxes in Exchange 2013. Special Mailboxes in Exchange 2013 get-mailbox -arbitration The Arbitration parameter specifies that the mailbox for which you are executing the command is an arbitration mailbox. Arbitration mailboxes are. get-mailbox -monitor [New with Exchange 2013] The Monitoring parameter specifies a list of…
PowerShell Scripts and Useful Components
When writing long scripts, I’ve come to realize several helpful tips to keep the script useful, functional and explainable. In order for me to do this, I rely on comments, functions and arrays. I find these useful for many reasons. Hopefully this article will help explain what they are good for and encourage you to…
Exchange, MessageLog Tracking, and Testing
I’d been given an assignment to create a script that would parse old message tracking logs for when distribution groups had last had an email sent to it for reporting purposes. In doing so, I needed a way to test old logs, logs that could be as much as a year old. The only issue…
PowerShell and Arrays
I am currently working on a fairly long script and have decided that I need to ditch a bad habit I have with PowerShell. This bad habit is writing CSV files that contain the results of my looped queries. The reason I consider this a bad habit, is that it leaves behind files on whatever…
NEWS – A lull and a change
For the past week I’ve been trying to get a bunch of articles out that I’ve had queued up and unfinished due to my day job. As such, I am going to cool off a bit, take a break and resume when the holidays are over. I will also be back with a brand new…
Exchange Server 2013 – Administration – Part 10
In part 10 of my series on the new Exchange Server 2013 RTM EAC, I will be covering the Server Tab. The Server tab is a centralized place to manage your server, databases, DAGs, Virtual Directories and Certificates. I find this tab to be most useful during setup of new Exchange 2013 Servers. From the…
Group Membership Approval – PowerShell Manipulation
Recently I had an issue with a client where they noticed that a couple of groups they were a manager did not look the same in their Outlook client. One would be in bold and he could edit the list and the other was not bolded and he was not able to edit the list….
Discontinued features from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013
As with the previous article on Exchange 2010 to 2013, a migration from Exchange 2007 to 2013 will also see multiple changes. That list is on the same page as the Exchange 2010 list.
