PowerShell Friday Fun
How many days do you have where the below describes the standard routine?
I have also been known to reference this when delivering Microsoft workshops in the preamble to break time....
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Rhoderick
Messaging
Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing
When running operations in the Exchange Management Shell, you may run into the situation where the commands do not complete and the error “Pipeline not executed because a pipeline is already executing” is reported. An example of this is shown below. This is an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 lab server. In this case a PowerShell one-liner was used to iterate through the Exchange 2010 servers, and to sta… Read the rest “Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing”
Save The Date – End of Office 2007 Extended Support
Please be aware and plan for the upcoming end of extended support Office 2007. For those who were working in IT back in 2006 when Office 2007 was released, do you remember the catchy title that was used? L.O.V.E. - Launch of Office Vista and Exchange. Office 2007 brought us Outlook 2007 which was a welcome change from the 2003 version of the product. Some features are still with us, others no… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Office 2007 Extended Support”
Exchange 2010 OAB Recommended Configuration
The Exchange 2010 OAB needs some love and attention after it has been created with the default settings. While things may not be broken, they are less than ideal.
The Exchange OAB was last really overhauled with Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2. This was the move to the fourth generation of OAB and was done for many good reasons. They included:
- Ability to generate local specific indexes
- New
Exchange 2016 CU3 Released
Exchange 2016 CU3 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU3 Released”
Exchange 2013 CU14 Released
Exchange 2013 CU14 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU14 Released”
Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI
For those who worked with NT and Novell Netware many, many moons ago they became familiar with a handy function– who am I. Windows folks may also recall it when working with the Client and Gateway Services for Netware, and whoami.exe was also added to the NT Resource Kit. Remember the days of all the fun res kit tools? *
The whoami command does exactly what you would expect, it tells you who you … Read the rest “Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI”
When To Move Arbitration Mailboxes
The concept of arbitration mailboxes is not really new, they were first introduced in Exchange 2010. Arbitration mailboxes are used for several special tasks within Exchange and for the most part will tick away quite happily with minimal administrator intervention. System mailboxes have existed for much longer in Exchange, and again perform special tasks which are required by Exchange.
A lot of a… Read the rest “When To Move Arbitration Mailboxes”
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 Released
Patch Tuesday this week heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 15 (RU15) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU15 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains security fixes to address the issues in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-108, in addition to the previous fixes in RU14 and older. Since security updates are delivered via a RU… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 Released”
Blocking Outlook Versions Connecting To Exchange 2010
In a recent customer engagement the senior messaging architect wanted to restrict the versions of Outlook connecting to the Exchange servers. This was due to the fact that there were some old and unsupported versions of Exchange and some incentive had to be applied to those business groups to ensure that all the stragglers were updated. As mentioned in a previous post, do not overlook Outlook pa… Read the rest “Blocking Outlook Versions Connecting To Exchange 2010”