Adding my own 2¢ to the PowerShell & Technology Communities
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
My company went through a migration a few years ago of all of our users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. The mailbox moves were insanely time-consuming. Each mailbox has to be taken offline during the migration and that meant many, many nights of sitting up all night staring at progress bars. Exchange 2010 handles … Read more
If you’ve been working with New-WebServiceProxy in PowerShell and have insecure (hopefully) internal sites that you are working with, you’ve undoubtedly seen the following message: New-WebServiceProxy : The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. At line:1 char:20 + New-WebServiceProxy <<<< -Uri https://[SERVERNAME]:[PORT]/[URLtoWSDL] + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (https://[SERVERNAME]:[PORT]/[URLtoWSDL]:Uri) … Read more
So, like last year, I’m going to be attending TEC2012. I’m primarily interested in the Exchange and PowerShell modules, but I’ll be adding more information later. For those of you interested, this is one of the premier conferences that I’ve ever had the priviledge to attend. If you can figure a way to attend, please … Read more
Our organization keeps our terminated user mailboxes for a very long time. We keep them active for a number of reasons, but most can be summed up as “we like to have the information available if we need it.” That being said, we don’t really like having the mailboxes on our production (read “high speed/high … Read more
The DHCP PowerShell script will dump the “raw” DHCP data to a text file for each Active Directory-aware DHCP server. The file is saved to “C:\DHCP-Backup\SERVERNAME-YYYYMMDD.txt.” This can be easily changed within the last few lines of the script itself. ########################################################## # Get-DHCPServerBackup.ps1 #——————————————————— # Author: Kevin M. Sparenberg # Revision History: # 1.0 – … Read more
I got a request recently to find out what mailboxes moved and when that took place. I knew that each batch of mailbox moves creates two log files; a plain text log and an xml. Since I knew right where they were, I decided to see what I could do about getting valuable data from … Read more