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
The other day I went to update my certificates and was receiving an error running the letsencrypt script to update. The error was Error: couldn’t get currently installed version for /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt: An unexpected error occurred: VersionConflict: (certbot 0.11.1 (/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/lib/python2.7/site-packages), Or something along that lines. After trying to remember what I… 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
Here are a few PowerShell Keyboard Shortcuts to help you out. F7 will give list of recent commands in a popup (doesn’t work in ISE) Select the command to run it again F9 + number will load that command from F7 if you would like to modify it CTL +… Continue reading
This one keeps getting me and I thought if I wrote it down maybe .. just maybe next time I would remember. In your current session if you are searching for an Object .. A users mailbox in my case, and you are only getting results from one of the… Continue reading
I was tired of my co workers walking by my desk and commenting about all the “red” powershell errors scrolling up my screen. So instead of writing better code I used the simple command to put those errors in a text file instead of onscreen. For something like: Set-mailbox -identity… Continue reading
So yeah .. I like things to be neat and clean and having a single line command in powershell is the norm for a lot of people. Example: New-MailContact -DomainController $dc -Name $alias.ContactName -ExternalEmailAddress $alias.ExternalEmailAddress -Alias $alias.ContactAlias -FirstName $alias.FirstName -Initials ” -LastName $alias.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $OU But like stated I like… Continue reading
Wow, That was Easy .. SO if you are not using it you should, NOW. Little Back Story: March 8th SecKC Meeting @jamespugjones spoke about his project @LetsEncrypt LetsEncrypt.org. If you were not there you should watch it at SecKC Videos. It was an excellent talk. My takeaway from it was… Continue reading