Essential Exchange

The userAccountControl attribute, which resides on each user and computer object in an Active Directory forest, is responsible for, well, controlling lots of things about those accounts. For example it controls whether an account is locked out, or whether an account is disabled, or whether the password...

A reader recently pointed out to me that several of the last scripts in my post Chapter 12 - Exchange 2003 Scripting were corrupted. I've corrected those. And now you should be able to enjoy them! Until next time... As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line...

There are lots of reasons why you may want to get the name of your computer while you are executing a PowerShell script, from a parameter you want to pass to a cmdlet or function or for generating a filename. Thankfully, PowerShell makes it easy. Just like our old friend, cmd.exe, PowerShell makes the...

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 and Devs. I'll be speaking next week at the...

This is just another quick sample of what you can do in PowerShell by leveraging the .Net framework. Need to access a website? No problem. System.Net.WebRequest to the rescue! Note that you can specify credentials, read all the data, follow the links, etc. Just depends on how far you want to go... function...

The authors of the upcoming "Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit" asked me if I wanted to write a script for them for a section named "From The Field". I said sure! I based the script on one I wrote a long time ago, which you can access here . So the readers have the...

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 bad assumption on my part, for reasons that shall...

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 removed from Exchange If a Recovery Storage Group...

I'm in the process of tech-reviewing an important book (you'll want it on your shelf once it is released), and one of the things I did today was spend a while figuring out how to do Attribute Scoped Queries in PowerShell. If you develop in C# or C++, or use adfind to do your searches, those tools...

I don't often just link to another blog posting for MY blog posting, but this one deserves it. It's not new, but last year fellow Exchange MVP Glen Scales wrote a script which allows you to export large mailboxes to ANSI PSTs. It does this by copying each item in a source mailbox to a destination...