So yes, It has been 2 years since I posted <sigh> You would think with Covid I would have been all over this, but well .. we all agree that time of our lives sucked and here we are. As we have all had, I recently had the requirement to… Continue reading
It has been a few months since I have been here it appears, and as part of my personal goals for the year I have vowed to contribute more to the community. With that in mind today I want to touch a little on using PowerShell to get domain SPF,… Continue reading
This is due to a limit with Get-ADGroupMember having a 5k limit, so this is telling you that the group you are trying to get members from has more than 5k Members. To get around this you can use this Myself I ran it as such so I can do… Continue reading
Not sure how I missed this in the past, or have not had this come up before, but here is something I just had to use today. Comparing 2 AD Groups in Poweshell. You will get 2 columns: SamAccountName SideIndicator User (== or <= or => == in both <=… Continue reading
Had a requirement to search mailboxes by a specific date. In our case it was to look at the size of a mailbox if looking at the last 6 months. Here is something close, which will search for mail receive by a specific date. # variables param ( $path =… Continue reading
This is a simple one, want to get today, yesterday, last month or last year .. try this $Date = Get-Date $Today = $Date | Get-date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $Yesterday = $Date.AddDays(-1) | Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $LastMonth = $Date.AddMonths(-1) | Get-date -Format MM/dd/yyyy $LastYear = $Date.AddYears(-1) | Get-Date -Format MM/dd/yyyy You… Continue reading
Shortcut If you are using the where command Get-Mailbox * | Where-Object {$_.EmailAddress -like “*something.com”} you can use a question mark Get-Mailbox * | ? {$_.EmailAddress -like “*something.com”} Some others I often use: Format-List = FL Format-Table = FT Get-Item = gi Export-CSV = epcsv Import-PSSession = ipsn Add-PsSnapIn =… Continue reading
Here are some commands I had to use this week. For exporting users Mailbox Items to PST (and the ones that were too big to Yearly PST) # Create PST of users mailbox + By Date – Note – Location must be a UNC Path New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -lt ’03/1/2013′)… Continue reading
Ran into an issue with the service desk trying to use a new Mailbox server I was creating to be used as a backup server. Before I could get the DAG setup on the server we started getting tickets where new users could not access their mailboxes. Looking into we… Continue reading
Ran into a need to store credentials for an account to run a powershell script. Examples of how you can use this would be: 1. Have the Service Desk run a script that will do a task higher than they have authorization with their normal accounts. 2. Running a script… Continue reading