Update: Estimating the size of an Exchange (online) Archive
Hi all! A couple of years back, I created a (very basic) script to help estimating the size of an...
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Exchange Virtual Directory HTML Report
Update 12/09/2016: script updated to version 1.8: Included support for Exchange 2016 CU2+ Made...
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Speaking at IT/DEV Connections & UK UC Day
It’s been a while since I last wrote an article… Although there’s no excuses, I...
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[updated: July 20, 2015] Script: putting Exchange Server 2013 into Maintenance Mode
Latest Update: v1.8 (07/20/2015): fixed a copy/paste error in the script and cleaned up the code...
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Azure AD Synchronization HTML Report
In 2013, Exchange Server MVP Mike Crowley wrote a script which would interactively report on the...
Read MoreExploring Exchange Server Component States
As described in a previous article, an Exchange 2013 server can be placed into a sort of maintenance mode, not only by temporarily pausing a DAG node from the cluster, but also by putting Exchange components on that server into...
Read MoreUpdating the FriendlyName property of a certificate using PowerShell
Update: you actually *can* update the property (even if it’s not there). Seems I was just too blind to notice it earlier. Thanks to Michel De Rooij for pointing this out. In one of my earlier articles, I wrote about how to...
Read MoreHow to check what the version of your tenant is in the cloud (Office 365)
I sometimes get the question how one can verify what the version of Exchange they’re running in the cloud. Although it should be pretty obvious based on the GUI (Exchange 2010 vs. Exchange 2013) and the fact that the latter...
Read MoreChecking for administrative permissions in PowerShell
Some PowerShell cmdlets require you to have administrative permissions to run them. If you’re creating a script and you’re using such a cmdlet (e.g. writing a file to the root), it would be nice to check up front if the user who...
Read MoreGet a list of installed applications using PowerShell
I was recently at a customer who needed to get a report of software that was running on each computer. Since they did not have (or at least not fully deployed) a solution that could do that for them (e.g. System Center...
Read MoreWorking with SIDs in PowerShell
Recently, I was creating a PowerShell script in which it turned out that I needed to use SIDs to uniquely identify an object. There might be other ways to uniquely identify an object/account but the SID just seemed easiest. One...
Read MoreConfiguring Windows 8 Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
Hi there! As you might know, Windows 8 will bring us tons of new features and improvements, some of which have been long awaited. Over the upcoming weeks, I’ll try to produce some blog posts about these changes and improvements...
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