Simulate User Message Sends leveraging EWS

If you’ve read any of my posts in the past, you know that I’ve got a lab at the office.  Part of this includes a handful of Exchange Servers.  To better simulate “real-world” (not stress-test) simulations, I want to send messages around the organization.  Thankfully, I’ve had some experience with Exchange Web Services (EWS) in the past.

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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

BlackBerry 10 and Dual Data Center

Today’s ramble is about the new BlackBerry 10 Infrastructure and how I see it interacting with a dual data center environment. I need to emphasize that this discussion is based solely on the RTM version of the BlackBerry 10 Enterprise Server. For those who have read the blog before, you know that I’m passionate about … Read more

Get Exchange 2010 Move Information

When I’ve migrated mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, I was always asked how quickly the mailboxes moved. It wasn’t the easiest to figure this information out, but I was able to report on it after massaging the data for a while. Exchange 2010 moves store the information differently and you can access that … Read more