Exchange Mailbox Move Request Stuck on ‘Queued’ Recently i started doing bulk Mailbox Moves to New DB’s, during this process i found that all the new move-request jobs i started are all stuck on ‘Queued’ status. To resolve this i did the following. List all Move-Request (just to make sure they still all in…
1 CommentRemove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request using PowerShell Lets look at how to remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request with PowerShell.
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Get-MoveRequest |
This will list all current Mailbox Move-Requests InProgress and Completed. To remove run :
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Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false |
Lets looks at combining the “Get” option and only show “Completed” Move-Requests and then remove the “Completed” Move-Requests.
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Get-MoveRequest |Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Completed"} |Remove-MoveRequest |
There you…
Leave a CommentSet Mailbox Max Send and Max Receive limits Lets have a quick look at a one liner to set user mailbox send and receive size limits in Exchange Powershell.
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Set-Mailbox Shaun.Hardneck -MaxReceive "15 MB" -MaxSend "15 MB" |
Now lets look at finding all users with “MaxSendSize” limits greater than “5 MB”
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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.MaxSend -gt "5 MB"} |
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Leave a CommentAdd and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell Lets look at some quick Powershell one liners to Remove and Add Distribution Group Members. Add DistributionGroup Member:
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Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyAdmins -Member ShaunH |
Remove DistributionGroup Member:
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Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyUsers -Member John.Long |
Quick and Simple One liners. #ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentSet Office 365 Out Of Office Messages using PowerShell Connect to Office 365 PSSession using a script a created to simplify the connection :Connect-Office365-PSSession
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#This Script was created to assist HelpDesk staff to configure Out Of Office Messages for Staff #Twitter: Shaun.Hardneck #Web: http://thatlazyadmin.com $user = Read-Host "UserName" $sdate = Read-Host "Example of Date "7/10/2015 08:00:00" " $edate = Read-Host "Example of Date "7/10/2015 08:00:00" " $msg = Read-Host "Type Internal and External Auto-Reply Message." Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity $user -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage $msg -ExternalMessage $msg |
Images when script is executed Very simple and straight forward script to quickly and easily set OOF messages. TechNet Script can be downloaded here :SetO365OOF #ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentThe purpose of this article is to show case how to add a new A record to a DNS zone using PowerShell. Here is a quick look at the available Syntax for : Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA [-AllowUpdateAny] [-CreatePtr] [-Name] <String> [-IPv4Address] <IPAddress[]> [-ComputerName <String>] [-TimeToLive <TimeSpan>] [-ZoneName] <String> [-AgeRecord] [-PassThru] [-ZoneScope <String>] [-VirtualizationInstance <String>] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>]…
Leave a CommentThe following Script was created to assist a help desk department to quickly get a list of ‘Members’ from an Active Directory Group. This is a very simple script that prompts you for a Group Name and will then use Grid-View to display the results. Original Post : https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-Domain-Group-Members-bf33a1a2?redir=0 GetGroupMembers #ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentIn this Post we will cover how to create a Retention Tag and Retention Policy in Exchange Online. Launch the Exchange Online EAC and navigate to Compliance and Retention Tags. Create a Retention Policy to Automatically move all Mailbox Items from 1 Year to Archive. Click (+) Tab then Click apply automatically to entire mailbox…
1 CommentAfter this weekend’s latest Ransomware attack here is a quick way to find all those “Windows XP” machines still running in your environment. What is WanaCry ? This malware exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system that allows it to automatically spread across networks, which gives it the ability to quickly infect large numbers…
Leave a CommentCreate Exchange 2016 DAG using PowerShell What is a Database Availability Group (DAG) ? A database availability group (DAG) is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox servers that provide automatic database-level recovery from a database, server, or network failure. When a Mailbox server is added to a DAG, it works…
Leave a CommentThis guide will show you how to add additional Subnets into Active Directory Sites and Services using GUI as well as Powershell. Let’s start by adding the following Subnet into Sites and Services using GUI. Subnet : 192.168.56.0/24 and 192.168.57.0/24 Launch Active Directory Site and Services and Navigate to Subnets. Right click on “Subnets” and…
2 CommentsView Default Exchange 2016 message throttling settings Message throttling refers to a group of limits that are set on the number of messages and connections that can be processed by an Exchange server. These limits include message processing rates, SMTP connection rates, and SMTP session timeout values. These limits work together to protect an Exchange server…
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