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The limits of unlimited mailboxes

by Martin Coetzer 14 August 2012 Exchange

Introduction Exchange 2007 and 2010 dramatically improved the ability for IT departments to provide mailboxes as large as 10GB or more for users. There is tremendous value for information workers in having a large mailbox, particularly with respect to productivity. Whether that means a 10GB, 20GB or larger mailbox, many organizations will want to impose [...]

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Interview With Mike Pfeiffer–author of Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Nicolas Blank 3 July 2012 Exchange

A little while ago we reviewed Mike Pfeiffer’s book “Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook”. It’s our pleasure to present an interview with Mike, about himself, his book and his views on PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0. If you have any more questions for Mike, please use the comments section under the article and we’ll make sure to [...]

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Using the Exchange Management Shell from C#

by Hannes de Jager 15 November 2011 Exchange

I’m wanting to build on my previous post titled “Using PowerShell from managed code” to show how to invoke the Exchange 2010 Management Shell from managed code. Since Exchange 2007, the primary management tool for Exchange is the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The EMS is really just a PowerShell session with Exchange specific extensions loaded. [...]

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Using PowerShell from managed code

by Hannes de Jager 4 October 2011 PowerShell

PowerShell… the gracious gift to Sys-Admins from Jeffrey Snover and his team at Microsoft… It needs no introduction and is certainly one of those tools that, once you start using it, you can’t imagine life without it anymore. But hey, why should Sys-Admins have all the fun with this mighty automation framework and developers be [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 and PowerShell Remoting

by Nicolas Blank 27 September 2011 Exchange

Today we have another guest blog post, this time by Bhargav Shukla. Bhargav is passionate about many things, including Exchange and PowerShell, so I’ll allow him to introduce himself and afterwards we’ll get on with the post.   Bhargav Shukla is a Sr. Premier Field Engineer – Unified Communications with primary focus on Exchange Server [...]

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Scripting Diskpart with PowerShell

by Martin Coetzer 22 September 2011 Exchange

On my projects I often require many mailbox databases on the Exchange mailbox servers when I do my designs. With many databases I typically also require many volumes to host them on the servers. Creating many volumes is not fun and a very laborious task. So I would naturally look at ways to script this [...]

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Microsoft Scripting Guy–Ed Wilson Guest Blog–PowerShell and WMI Discovery

by Nicolas Blank 22 September 2011 PowerShell

Today we have a very special treat! A guest blog from the Microsoft Scripting Guy himself, Ed Wilson. Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the daily Hey Scripting Guy! blog,. He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He is a Microsoft-certified [...]

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Using PowerShell to find objects via SidHistory

by Nicolas Blank 21 September 2011 PowerShell

I’m using the free Quest CMDLets (www.quest.com) for this post as they do most of the heavy lifting I require under the hood. You can download these for free at Quest.com and get free support from some of the best PowerShell MVP’s as well as the CMDlet’s developers at www.PowerGui.org SIDHistory is used extensively during [...]

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PowerShell 3 previews available for download

by Nicolas Blank 21 September 2011 Anouncements

It’s a week of downloading goodness. First Windows 8 desktop downloads became available, now we have the PowerShell 3 community preview available. You may ask, why should you bother? PowerShell 1 fundamentally transformed the admin experience in terms of ease of scripting, debugging and discovery. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then checkout [...]

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Using PowerShell to Bulk Create Exchange users with unique passwords

by Nicolas Blank 20 September 2011 Exchange

There’s a number of articles which detail how to create an Exchange user from a CSV file using Exchange Management Shell, however most of them harvest a password at runtime by prompting the user to type in credentials. The password is then set for all users. However, what if your users all need to have [...]

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