Another month, another update. This time it was Exchange Online that got the love of a redo. PowerShell for Exchange Online is the second book I wrote, right after finishing the Exchange 2016 book I did with Dave Stork in 2017 … an idea that was started way back in 2015. Exchange Online was originally…
Exchange Maintenance Scripts #4: Disk Space Monitoring
Introduction In the previous three blog posts (one, two and three) we have scripts that are monitoring for IIS Logs as well as IMAP/POP logs that may be taking up space. We also reviewed how to monitor our Exchange Databases for proper backups which will ensure the logs get properly truncated and keep disk space…
Updated PowerShell book for the Security and Compliance Centers
Security and Compliance Center … wait Security Center and Compliance Center or Security and Compliance Centers? Well, no matter how you put it, each tenant administrator has to deal with Security and Compliance for the sake of their organization and their data. Microsoft had for a long time one Admin Center and underneath that one…
Exchange Maintenance Scripts #3: IIS Log Space
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…
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
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…
Book Updates are Rolling On!
Current Updates Last week the Security and Compliance Center book received it’s Feb 2021 update. That makes for update number three for the book. Please make sure to check it out here: Security and Compliance Center Also, if you are on the fence about the book, take a look at the Sample Chapters page for…
Exchange Online PowerShell Book – Jan 2021 Update
Small update for the Exchange Online PowerShell book was released today. If you have a subscription, make sure to download the new edition today. All changes are logged here: https://practicalpowershell.com/changelog/ If you haven’t purchased your copy, make sure to do so today. At over 600 pages, this books takes direct aim at helping you work…
