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For the final gripping chapter, here are tips #76 to 101 for your PowerShell pleasure!
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Exchange 2010 uses management role groups and management role assignment policies to manage permissions.
Role groups enable you to grant permissions to groups of administrators and specialist end users. These a… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101”
Here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 51 to 75.
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Want to determine whether a server is running Exchange Server 2010 Standard Edition or Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition? Type:
Get-ExchangeServer <Server Name> | Format-Table Name, Edition
If you want to view which edit… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75”
Leading on where the previous post left off, here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 26 to 50.
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Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard characters to retrieve all properties that match the part of the name that you specify:
Get-Mailbox | Format-Table Name… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50”
The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell. One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day!
Since I had not see a complete list of the Exchange 2010 ones, I thought I’d jot them down. Exchange 2007 Tips are listed on TechNet.
Scroll down to the bottom for … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”
Most of the time when working with RBAC in Exchange we are not using large scripts to create and manage roles. Generally we use one-liners to configure RBAC. So I thought it would be useful to post some of the ones that I find myself frequently using.
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After publishing some recent articles on RBAC, there was some feedback that a primer on RBAC would also be welcomed. So here it is!
It is not Really Boring Access Control.
RBAC = Role Based Access Control. As a concept it is not new, however Exchange 2010 was the first time that it has been natively supported in Exchange. That being said, we still had the concept of roles in Exchange … Read the rest “Exchange RBAC Primer”
Some folks in the field may have seen this before, but it’s worth bubbling up to make sure everyone is aware of it!
I was sitting with one of my esteemed consulting colleagues today and he remarked that it was talking a long time to run one of his Exchange PowerShell scripts. The customer in question is a global organisation with hundreds of Exchange servers in all corners of the globe. My collea… Read the rest “Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets”
Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.
Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”
Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.
Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”
Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.
The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.
This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”