Over the past six or so years I’ve worked on providing a PowerShell script to make the installation process for Exchange 2013 and 2016 easier. The scripts will install the prerequisites, instead of having you look them up, round them up and then install them one at a time. With Exchange 2019 Preview being released…
Exchange Online – Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer
One of the more interesting changes to the ever changing Hybrid wizard is the ‘Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer’ option that has appeared recently.
Exchange Online – DLP Fingerprint UI is Deprecated
Recently I was made aware of a change that Microsoft made with regards to the DLP Fingerprinting function that is present in Exchange Online. If you use the DLP part of Exchange online and rely on DLP Fingerprinting, you may have already noticed. The short of it is that the GUI side of DLP Fingerprints…
Slow mailbox moves in Exchange 2016
For the past few years most migrations (when I say most, I guess I mean 90%) are moving mailboxes to Office 365 and Exchange Online. This entails a bit of back work, some prep and migrations go relatively smoothly. In May of this year I worked with a company to move 4500 users in Europe…
Exchange Prerequisite Script Updates for Exchange 2013/2016
Another Cumulative Update and another chance to revisit a script I’ve maintained for many years. This time with Cumulative Update 21 (the last one?!) for Exchange 2013 and Cumulative Update 10 for Exchange 2016, Microsoft has changed the C++ requirement to be the 2013 version and not the 2012 version that is included in with…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 26
When I typically write one of these Quick PowerShell blog articles, I usually cover a topic in Exchange Server or Exchange Online. However, like my job, I also want to cover different topics and in this article we’ll delve into some quick PowerShell stuff related to Active Directory. Windows 2008 R2 does not have certain…
Quick Reference Sheet for Microsoft Teams PowerShell
A long time ago I had run across a series of PowerShell 4.0 quick reference sheets. I found them useful when I was new to PowerShell eons ago. Now that I use PowerShell on a regular basis, I thought I would create a series of these for more modern Microsoft applications. First one that is…
New Blog Posts and More
For those that read this blog on a regular basis you know that my posts can come in irregular bursts, usually with very few long breaks. However, as you can tell, my blog writing has slowed down quite a bit. I’m afraid I have been a bit busier than my normal in the real world….
Cannot Change MemberJoin and MemberDepart on Security Group
Recently a customer contacted me with an issue with one of their mail-enabled Security Groups. They were trying to set both the MemberJoin and MemberDepart settings to Closed per best practices. Well it turns out that the ‘Closed’ setting is actually a default for mail-enabled Security Groups. PowerShell options are available for changing these values…
Practical PowerShell Exchange Online book is now available!
After working on this book for the past 9-12 month, the work is done. This book is basically taking the information from our first book, Practical PowerShell Exchange 2016, and translating it so the content would work for Exchange Online. Sounds simple right? Yup, that’s what I thought to. Until I started to dig in…
