Exchange 2007
Quick antispam report or status check?
Having received an annoyingly higher proportion of spam in my Inbox this morning, I wanted to quickly check what the antispam agents are doing. Here’s…
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Scripts
Administration
HOW TO: Remove the Public Folder Store
This is a fairly common question — you’re trying to remove the Public Folder store on an Exchange 2007 server and get an error that…
Administration
Keeping tabs on Antispam filters: A few handy scripts in Exchange Server 2007
One of the more useful improvements in Exchange Server 2007 is the abundance of logging for different features and components (read previous post “Exchange Server…
Administration
Bulk mailbox creation revisited: Adding Active Directory attributes
The instructions in Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell allow you to quickly create mailboxes in bulk using the New-Mailbox…
Exchange 2007
Exchange shell: Using double quotes or single quotes in commands or scripts
Another frequently asked question about PowerShell/Exchange shell, and one that I myself had during the initial foray with the shell – what’s the difference between…
Active Directory
HOW TO: Create a Dynamic Distribution Group by country or city
The Exchange console does not have pre-canned filter options for Country or City to be able to create a Dynamic Distribution Group (DDG, aka “Query-Based…
Administration
SCRIPT: Turning on Filter Junk Email
OWA users who never logon using Outlook do not have their Junk Mail filtering option turned on by default. Exchange MVP Glen Scales has a…
Administration
DST 2007: Script to export Calendar items (before you rebase!)
MIIS (Microsoft Identity Integration Server) MVP Jason Sherry recently shared this script to export Calendar items, which should come in handy to export items from…
Administration
Get Dell Service Tag using PowerShell
A popular script on this blog uses the Win32_SystemEnclosure WMI class to get the Dell Service Tag from Dell computers [see Getting Dell Service Tag…
Active Directory
SCRIPT: Show mailbox quotas (including Store & Policy quotas)
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…