As is par for the course in my Quick PowerShell series, I am taking an all too common problem and providing a PowerShell solution to it. In this post I am covering an all too often occurrence when a mailbox is deleted too soon and an administrator needs to recover the mailbox. The mailbox recovery…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 10
While doing research for another article I found links in the PowerShell cmdlets that let to pages with no content. The below script is an attempt to find all the help links for each an every PowerShell cmdlets for Exchange 2013. The basic logic of the script is to store the entire help for a…
Exchange 2013 – Recent Observations
As I’ve noted on many of my past blog posts, things are a changin’ with Exchange 2013 and its various release versions. Some changes are hard to notice at first and others are more obvious. I think both of the changes that I’m writing about are less obvious than other changes that have occurred in…
Exchange 2013 Hybrid, DNS Replication and Lock Out?
Many Exchange 2013 Hybrid installations go without a hitch. The hybrid configuration wizard in Exchange 2013 just goes click next, next, next and so on. However, there are times when the Hybrid wizard does something unexpected and your have to review the error message / logs in order to see what went wrong. First Run…
Exchange 2013 Room Lists
Imagine an international law firm or manufacturer that has locations around the world. Now assume those locations have multiple conference rooms or even multiple buildings with multiple conferences rooms per those buildings. Locating the appropriate room might have taken a carefully constructed namespace that satisfied both IT staff and end-user alike. With Exchange 2013 has…
Lab Setup – Script – Part3
The third article in this series will continue the Lab Setup Script. This part of the script I wrote will cover these options: mobile device policies, retention tags/policies, enabling archives, OWA policies and configuring APPs. In the next article I will cover more advanced functionality for existing features and also demonstrate lab cleanup for resetting…
New and Updated Exchange 2013 Performance Guidance
Microsoft just released a new compilation of their Exchange 2013 Performance Guidance – here.
Migration Issues to Office 365
I’ve written a few blog posts on problems I’ve seen while moving users to the cloud. Recently a client of mine experienced the normal one or two issues connecting mailboxes to the cloud. However, he went through our check list of updates, new profile and checking attributes (remote mailbox – email address, email addresses in…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 9
As part of my series on Quick PowerShell stuff, I like to share brainstorms or ideas that I have that lead to usable scripts. This script is usable in relative terms, but I think it is more of an exercise of what you can do with PowerShell. The script also reveals some information that I…
Removed Cmdlets for Exchange 2013 CU6 and CU7
When commands are removed, usually there is some warning either in documentation or help files or noticed while running the commands themselves. Just like everything else in the world, there are exceptions to the rules. In this case we are looking at commands that have been removed with very little fanfare from Exchange 2013 in…
