Various Tips and Tricks
Since some of my test machines are a touch low on resources, having to wait for the server manager process to finish loading can be a little bit painful. On those machines a very pertinent question is: How can I disable Server Manager from auto starting?
There are group policy and local policy options to suppress this in addition to editing the registry.
There is always the option to disable it dire… Read the rest “How To Hide Server Manager At Logon”
When I was in Seattle for some internal training in January, one of the chaps delivering a demo used a feature that I wish I’d known about previously. When he was demonstrating some of the update mechanics for Office Pro Plus he immediately skipped to the correct portion of the registry by using a shortcut feature in Registry Editor.
Yes, there is a favourites bookmark feature!
Update 20-8-2014: Ad… Read the rest “Registry Editor Favourites – Who Knew?”
The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75
To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:
$Int = 76;While ($Int -le 100){Get-Tip $Int; Write-Host; $Int+=1}
To get a list of all parameters available for a cmdlet, type:
(Get-… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 93”
The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50
Exchange 2013 Tip of The Day – 76 To 93
To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:
$Int = 51;While ($Int -le 75){Get-Tip $Int; Write-Host; $Int+=1}
Want to know what permissions an Active D… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75”
The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75
Exchange 2013 Tip of The Day – 76 To 93
To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:
$Int = 26;While ($Int -le 50){Get-Tip $Int; Write-Host; $Int+=1}
Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard charact… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 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!
The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50
Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75
Exchange 2013 Tip of T… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”
When writing Exchange PowerShell scripts it is very useful to target specific machines to either query or set their properties. Thus the ability to generate a query that effectively targets the correct machines is a very good thing to have!
The reason I'm posting this is that I see a lot of people manually specify a list of servers, and then iterate through the list which typically looks like this:… Read the rest “Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples”
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”