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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:34 AM

Sending an email to users whose password is about to expire, a PowerShell Rewrite

In September of 2005, I wrote a blog post named " Sending an e-mail to users whose password is about to expire ". Written in VBScript, it was one of my most popular blog posts of all time. I still have clients of mine that use it and I get occaisional...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:57 PM

Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership, v2

In August of 2010, I posted Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership . For most people, that script worked just fine. However, it had some issues: Large groups would cause PowerShell to generate an error about concurrent pipelines...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:22 PM

Generating a report on Distribution Groups and their Membership

A common request is to get a list of all distribution groups and the members contained in that distribution group. The question came up on a mailing list I frequent today, and my initial response was a PowerShell "one-liner" (actually five lines...
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Monday, July 19, 2010 11:32 AM

Exchange Email Address Template Objects in PowerShell

Exchange has a very rich set of objects which are used and created by the various Exchange cmdlets. Unfortunately, these objects (excepting those used by Exchange Web Services) are poorly documented - and the documentation which is available is often...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:21 PM

Antivirus Exclusions and Windows

In December of 2007, I made two posts: File Level Antivirus for Exchange and Information Store Antivirus for Exchange . Since that time, there is no question that with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 (and the ongoing advancement of various Internet-based...
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Friday, May 28, 2010 5:06 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha - #5

You may - or may not - need to register Filter Packs after you install them. As a prerequsite for installing Exchange 2010, you must install the Office 2007 Filter Packs . As noted in a recent blog post of mine, Office 2010 Filter Pack for Exchange 2007...
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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:36 PM

A Brief History of Time...(ok ok, let's go with "An Introduction to the Windows Time Service")

Note: This article is written for "modern" versions of the Windows operating system - that is, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For older versions of the Windows operating system, the concepts still...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:46 PM

Speeding Reboot When Exchange is on a DC/GC

As I've noted in several previous blog entries (such as here and here ), installing Exchange on a domain controller and/or a global catalog server is not a best practice. However, if you are running SBS (Small Business Server) or EBS (Essential Business...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 PM

Exchange Server 2010 - Administrative Access to All Mailboxes

In Exchange 2010, the storage group has disappeared. Instead, the properties of a database and of a storage group have merged - the result being referred to as a database. Effectively, a database has been promoted to be as important as a storage group...
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Friday, January 30, 2009 2:14 PM

A Small Patch: Online Exchange Backup

If you only had a single storage group, the script in Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7) would not find any storage groups. The primary reason for that I always have a RSG too! :-) The fix is easy. In getStoragegroups...
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:56 AM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7)

In the first five parts of this series, I've given you the background to understand how Exchange backup works when using VSS and how to acquire the necessary information from your Exchange server to know what you should back up. Today, I present to...
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Friday, January 23, 2009 1:49 PM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Using Diskshadow for Online Exchange Backup (part 5 of 7)

If you hadn't noticed, I've been following a theme the last couple of months with some of the entries on this blog: Part 1: Getting a List of Storage Groups in a PowerShell Script Part 2: Getting a List of Stores in a PowerShell Script Part 3...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:01 AM

Exchange Connections - Fall 2008

Next week, in Las Vegas, Nevada is the semiannual Connections conference. The Connections conference is a technical conference covering SQL Connections, Windows Connections, Exchange Connections, etc. There are lots of individual tracks, both for IT Pros...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:45 PM

Exchange Disk Space, version 2.1

It was pointed out to me, by a party that shall remain nameless, that I depended in today's earlier post Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange Version 2 , that I ASSumed that msExchCurrentServerRoles would never be higher than 64 and that that was a...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:36 AM

Finding Disk Space Used by Exchange, version 2

In July of 2006, I had a blog entry named Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange , and it was quite well received and it worked well for most people. However, it had a few issues: It doesn't work with Exchange Server 2007 because the streaming file was...
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