Exchange & Autonomy

My organization uses Autonomy (now owned by HP) to integrate our Mail and Document Management Systems.  Currently we’ve got it configured to run in multiple ways including automatic folder-based filing and point in time filing.  From what the team who runs the Autonomy system tell me, it has horrible logging when an item doesn’t get … Read more

Identifying Old ActiveSync Devices

Using the Exchange Management Console, you can easily identify ActiveSync devices which are out of sync for a period of time.  This is just a re-hash of multiple other posts, but I still think that the way in which I identify the devices is unique.  I used only one variable in this script; $Days – … Read more

Daily Exchange Mailbox Size Report

There are a plethora of software packages out there to report against your Exchange Infrastructure and many of them are great.  I’ve worked with several in the past.  However, if you want just a simple report for mailbox sizes, and you have access to a SQL Server, you can write your own process. My script … Read more

Exchange 2010 Shell, PowerShell 3.0, and You!

Don’t you hate it when you launch Exchange 2010’s Management Shell and you are greeted with a lovely message like this: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ExportPSSessionCommand, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 : Unable to find type [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ExportPSSessionCommand, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. I’ve got one script and a shortcut change that … Read more

[DATED] BlackBerry 10.1 and High Availability

The International Legal Technology Association asked me to contribute an article for their trade magazine a few months ago.  The article was specific to my company’s care study for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.1 with regard to High Availability.  Although BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.2 has been released, the framework which was discussed stays the same.  If … Read more

TechEd 2013 Media Leeching

This was my first year at Microsoft’s TechEd, and I have to say that I was blown away by the volume of content. There were several different times that I was unable to attend a session that I wanted because I was triple if not quadruple booked. Now that I’m back at the office, I … Read more

PowerShell & BlackBerry 10 Web Services (Part 2 – Coding)

In my first post, I explained how to get started with the BlackBerry 10 Web Services. Mostly it revolves around downloading and compiling a DLL that contains all the BlackBerry Web Service objects. In this post, I’ll be going over the PowerShell code that I wrote to leverage this DLL. We’re going to start with … Read more

PowerShell & BlackBerry 10 Web Services (Part 1 – Preparation)

This is a follow-up to my previous four-part post about PowerShell & BlackBerry Web Services. If you need a primer on where this is coming from, see the first series. Like before, I’m going to run through each step that I used when setting this up, though there will be fewer references to the specifics … Read more