Administration
New user does not show up in GAL
Scenario: You’ve created a new user (or any Exchange recipient that should show up in Exchange Address Books/GAL), but the recipient does not show up…
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PowerShell
Administration
SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits
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…
Active Directory
List users with automatic email forwarding enabled
Here’s a script written in response to a newsgroup post today on microsoft.public.exchange.admin. Exchange Server allows you to automatically forward inbound mail for one recipient…
Active Directory
HOW TO: Export all email addresses from a domain
Background: The Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address…
Archiving & Compliance
Adding disclaimers to outbound SMTP messages
Disclaimers are increasingly becoming commonplace in email messages sent to external (and at times internal) recipients. Security policies at many organizations require these disclaimers. If…
Administration
Getting Dell Service Tag using WMI
Need to maintain an accurate inventory of servers in datacenter. Dell servers have a Service Tag that is required when calling Dell support, and it…
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource Class – Reply from Alain Lissoir
The ClusApi.h file, which is part of the PlatformSDK should contain this… typedef enum CLUSTER_RESOURCE_STATE { ClusterResourceStateUnknown = -1, ClusterResourceInherited = 0, ClusterResourceInitializing = 1,…
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource class
The WMI ExchangeClusterResource class has 5 properties: 1) Name: returns name of Exchange cluster resource 2) Type: specifies the cluster resource type (IP Address, network…
Scripts
Track Hotfix/Patch Installation
What’s the best way to track when and which hotfixes/patches were applied? It’s an endless debate amongst IT pros. Some would like to do it…
Scripts
VBScript | SELECT CASE statement
Rather than using too many IF-THEN conditions to check a value and take action, you are better off using the SELECT CASE condition. It produces…