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…
Best Practices Analyzer(s) for a Server
In my day job as an IT consultant I do work outside of Exchange and end on projects that touch Active Directory, Identity Management, Office 365 and more. A lot of these projects require some sort of health check or simply a quick review of an environment before proceeding with any changes. The thought process…
Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016 is available on iBooks now!
The book is making its way around to different distribution points. The first distribution point is Apple’s iBooks. So if you like to read your books on your Apple device, pick up your copy of our book today:
PowerShell Cmdlets of Office 365: Finding The Changes
Taking what we learned from the last blog post on the changing of Office 365 cmdlet we will now assemble a full fledge script that will reporting on these changes in a daily fashion. Where do we start? If we remember from the other post multiple connections to Office 365 will be required. Each of…
PowerShell Cmdlets of Office 365: They are a Changin’
Microsoft’s cloud offering, Office 365, is in a constant state of flux. This state is driven by the amount of changed, additions and features that are made to the service. For customers, this state of change can be a bit bewildering, but Microsoft has provided some guidance on the changes with their Roadmap page for…
