Bulk add users to Distribution Group I was ask recently to simplify a task for support staff to bulk add users to a distribution group. So i created the following script to add user from csv. The script will ‘prompt’ for ‘Distribution Group’ name and will add users accordingly. The script has the ‘WhatIf’ added…
1 CommentSet Exhange 2010 /2013 OWA ‘LogonFormat’ using PowerShell Quick look at the curent setting using the ‘GUI’. Exchange Admin Center – Servers – Virtual Directory select OWA virtual directory. Now lets change the LogonFormat to ‘User name only’ using PowerShell
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Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -LogonFormat 'UserName' -DefaultDomain 'ThatLazyAdmin.local' -Identity 'LazyEX-01\owa (Default Web Site)' |
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Leave a CommentA Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The Transport service is shutting down. Exchange Transport Service Keeps shutting down. To resolve this issue you can simple recreate the Transport Queue Database on the needed Exchange server. To delete the specified database and corresponding transaction logs, follow these steps: Verify that the Microsoft Exchange…
Leave a CommentGet and Connect a Disconnected Mailbox Using PowerShell To quickly find all disconnected Mailboxes in your Exchange environment launch EMC and run the following one liner.
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Get-MailboxStatistics -Server ThaLazyExMBX01| where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database,DisconnectDate |
The Results will look as follow: Now that we have the results lets refine the search to find a specific “Disconnected Mailbox”
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Get-MailboxStatistics -server ThatLazyExMBX01| Where-object {($_.DisconnectDate -ne $null) -and ($_.DisplayName -eq "Manju")} |
The Results will look…
Leave a CommentExchange 2010 Mail User still Associated with a Move Request Mail User Object in Exchange still showing as if it is listed to a Move Request To verify if we have any Move requests currently in progress or completed we can start by Opening the Exchange Shell. Once the EMS is open type the following…
Leave a CommentExchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Error Access Denied Message Tracking in Exchange 2010 Stopped and you received the following Error in EventViewer. “MessageTrackingLogs: Failed to write logs because of the error: Access to the path ‘MSGTRK20170329-8.LOG’ is denied..” Let’s Start by reviewing the Current configuration for Message Tracking.
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Get-TranSportServer |ft Name,MessageTrackingLogEnabled,MessageTrackingLogPath,MessageTrackingLogMaxAge,MessageTrackingLogMaxDirectorySize,<pre> MessageTrackingLogMaxFileSize,MessageTrackingLogSubjectLoggingEnabled |
Now that you have your current configuration lets…
Leave a CommentExchange 2010 OWA : User Account has been Disabled. After a users account has been disabled for some time and re-enabled , they might be faced with the below error in Outlook and OWA. Outlook Error OWA Error To resolved this issue you can open ‘Exchange PowerShell’ and the the following #OneLiner
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Get-MailboxDatabase -Identity 'DataBase01' | Clean-MailboxDatabase |
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Leave a CommentBulk Enable ActiveSync using Exchange PowerShell Lets Start by search for all Mailboxes with ActiveSync Disabled. Open Exchange Powershell and Type the following.
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Get-CASMailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.ActiveSyncEnabled -eq $false} |
Now that we have a list of Users with ‘ActiveSyncEnabled’ set to ‘false’ , lets change this and Enable ActiveSync for these Users.
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Get-CASMailbox -Resulsize Unlimited |Set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $True |
Once done all users will have ‘ActiveSyncEnabled’…
Leave a CommentHow to Find all User Mailboxes with Auto Email Address Policy Removed. Let’s have a look at what the settings in Exchange Management Console looks like. Let’s start by running a quick one liner to search for all these users.
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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.EmailAddressPolicyEnabled -eq $False} |
Next we can see the results output That was a quick one liner ,but…
Leave a CommentI got asked a question the other day on how to handle new User Mailbox creation in a Hybrid Deployment. I have seen some users go the wrong way and create the AD object and add the Attributes but they forget about the Exchange portion and then focus on adding the license in Office 365.…
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