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SCRIPT: Show mailbox quotas (including Store & Policy quotas)

January 17, 2007

I had earlier posted a script that lists users’ mailbox limits/quotas [read previous post "SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits"]. That script only picks up users who have their mailbox limits set individually, bypassing the “normal” users who have their mailbox storage limits set by the Store or a System Policy. A related script that resets the [...]

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SCRIPT: Show OWA Users

November 22, 2006

This is a modified script that shows current OWA/HTTP logons to the Store(s) on a given server(s). The script takes NetBIOS names of servers as command-line arguments (separated by spaces), uses the Exchange_Logon WMI class to connect to a server and retrieve list of users currently logged on. Usage: ShowHTTPLogons.vbs EXCH1 EXCH2 EXCH3 If Cscript [...]

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Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell

November 1, 2006

Bulk creation of mailboxes (and the accompanying user accounts) in Exchange Server 2003/2000 involved some elaborate scripting effort. This task can now be done fairly effortlessly, thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The Shell can very easily import/use CSV files saved from a spreadsheet or text editor and create the mailbox-enabled users. Here’s how. [...]

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SCRIPT: Get Store GUIDs

March 3, 2006

Background: Exchange Server 2003 SP2 allows raising the Store size limit. If you’re using Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition, the default is raised from 16 Gb to 18 Gb, and the maximum size of a Store has been raised to 75 Gb. To raise the Store size limit, you need to insert the Database Size [...]

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SCRIPT: List Distribution Groups

February 13, 2006

I was able to modify this script I wrote a while back for general use. What it does: Lists mail-enabled groups in a domain including following attributes:- Group Name- Group type (Security/Distribution group)- Description (if the description field is populated)- Manager- Members What needs to be added…- If the group only receives from authorized senders [...]

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SCRIPT: Reset Mailbox Limits

February 2, 2006

I had posted a script that reports all users with their mailbox storage limits set individually on the user account properties in my earlier post titled “SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits“. I have just added another script to that post that will reset those mailboxes (with storage limits set individually). Once the script resets storage limits [...]

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SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits

October 26, 2005

At times the user’s mailbox limits are adjusted to bypass the limits set on a store or all stores by a policy. This is done by unchecking 1) “Use mailbox store defaults” in user’s properties –> Exchange General –> Storage Limits. New values can be added for 2) “Issue warning at (KB):”, 3) “Prohibit send [...]

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Exporting Sender Filter List

October 24, 2005

Messages from specific senders can be blocked by implementing sender filtering. Blocked senders are specified in Global Settings Message Delivery properties Sender Filtering tab (see screenshot). The Senders list is saved in the msExchTurfListNames attribute of the Default Message Filter object. It is a multi-valued attribute. It can be exported using ldifde/csvde if you take [...]

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List users with email forwarding enabled

October 18, 2005

Here’s a script written in response to a newsgroup post today on microsoft.public.exchange.admin. Exchange Server allows you to forward inbound mail for one recipient to another recipient. You can forward messages to the alternate recipient, without delivering a copy to the original recipient (effectively redirecting inbound mail for the recipient), or deliver messages to both [...]

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HOW TO: Export all email addresses from a domain

September 23, 2005

Background: The Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address for objects. You can export the list from ADUC to a CSV/txt file. However, any additional email addresses in the proxyAddresses attribute are not exported. There’s no GUI interface (in [...]

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