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Script: Save all Internet Explorer tabs as Favorites

January 6, 2012

We spend a lot of time in web browsers and if you’re like me, you probably have a gazillion tabs open – your work stuff, your social media sites, sites for e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, a few blogs, publications and news sites, sites you’re trying to quote material or save useful tidbits from. Suddenly, the browser [...]

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SCRIPT: List Delegates With Send On Behalf Access

November 26, 2008

Send On Behalf access allows a user to send mail on behalf of the mailbox owner. Figure 1: Send On Behalf access can be assigned from ADUC | recipient properties | Exchange General | Delivery Options, or by the mailbox owner using Microsoft Outlook Here’s a script that lists all users with delegates. File: listDelegates.zip [...]

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SCRIPT: Get Storage Group Backup Status

September 10, 2008

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Databases expose backup-related properties using the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet: Get-MailboxDatabase “My Database” -status | select *backup* | fl What you get back:BackupInProgress :SnapshotLastFullBackup :SnapshotLastIncrementalBackup :SnapshotLastDifferentialBackup :SnapshotLastCopyBackup :LastFullBackup :LastIncrementalBackup :LastDifferentialBackup :LastCopyBackup : Here’s a quick shell script that dumps each Storage Group and its backup-related information. I haven’t had the time to build in [...]

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Script: Listing Distribution Groups a recipient is a member of

July 15, 2008

It’s easy to get a list of all members of a Distribution Group. The Exchange shell (EMS) ships with the Get-DistributionGroupMember cmdlet that makes it a short one-liner (compared to 100s of lines of code in VBS). However, how do we get all Distribution Groups a user, group, or contact is a member of? There’s [...]

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HOW TO: Remove the Public Folder Store

May 5, 2008

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 some Public Folder replicas still exist. You’re certain you’ve removed all Public Folder replicas from that server. What next? Here’s a little procedure documented in How to Delete Multiple Public [...]

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Bulk mailbox creation revisited: Adding Active Directory attributes

December 4, 2007

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 command. Continuing from where we left off in that post, another scenario is being able to add Active Directory attributes to the new user object created by New-Mailbox. Note, the [...]

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SCRIPT: Turning on Filter Junk Email

July 22, 2007

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 script here that allows you to turn this on programmatically for Exchange Server 2007 users.

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DST 2007: Script to export Calendar items (before you rebase!)

March 5, 2007

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 the affected “extended” DST period, before you start rebasing items. In case something goes wrong during rebasing and appointments are off by an hour or two before or after their [...]

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Getting Dell Service Tag using PowerShell

February 1, 2007

A popular script on this blog uses the Win32_SystemEnclosure WMI class to get the Dell Service Tag from Dell computers [read previous post "Getting Dell Service Tag using WMI"]. Powershell’s get-wmiobject commandlet makes it a one-liner: Get-WmiObject win32_SystemEnclosure | select serialnumber

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SCRIPT: Show mailbox quotas (including Store & Policy quotas)

January 17, 2007

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 have their mailbox limits set individually, bypassing the “normal” users who have their mailbox storage limits set by the Store or a System Policy. A related script that resets the [...]

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