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Published March 4, 2013 by Eric

Exchange 2010 – Using Remote PowerShell

Today I’ve been looking into how I can create and Exchange Mailbox using PowerShell.

A little background. We have been using PowerShell to create new Active Directory accounts for awhile, but hadn’t looked into being able to create the mailbox on Exchange at the same time. The biggest problem (more a concern) is that I thought we needed to install the Exchange Management Tools (EMC and EMS) on our domain controllers or admin desktops. I was concerned these servers and computers wouldn’t get updated at the same time as our Exchange Servers and I didn’t want services packs and other updates to get out of sync.

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Published February 27, 2013 by Eric

PowerShell ISE on Windows 8

I’ve just started using the PowerShell ISE recently and started to really like the ability to type some commands and then run the code and test. So I was a…

Microsoft PowerShell

Published February 27, 2013 by Eric

PowerShell and ActiveMQ

We have a project going on at work that requires us to take gather specific information about users from Active Directory and get it into another system. We already use PowerShell to create all of our new user accounts so we wanted to stick with that. However, the other system we have to get the information into requires us to write the AD information to an ActiveMQ queue. The preferred format for this information is XML. So I was asked to come up with a way to accomplish this.

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Published October 2, 2012 by Eric

Outlook – Can’t open link when clicked

The other day I started having problems opening links that were emailed to me. I would get the message in Outlook and then click the link, but would get a message saying:

This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on your computer.

The solution was to run the following commands from an elevated Command Prompt.

REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClasses.htm /ve /d htmlfile /f

Outlook

Published July 19, 2012 by Eric

Exchange 2010 – Create Contacts from CSV

Create a CSV file that contains the following columns: ExternalEmailAddress Name Alias FirstName LastName OrganizationalUnit Then from the Exchange Management Shell run the following command: Import-CSV C:scriptsMyCSV.csv | ForEach-Object{New-MailContact -ExternalEmailAddress…

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Published June 1, 2012 by Eric

Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.x – New Exchange 2010 Database

I just created some new databases on our Exchange 2010 server and moved some BlackBerry users to those new databases. I started getting calls from people saying they weren’t getting emails on the BlackBerry’s. I did some checking and found some event logs on the BES server that said the users could not be started. I did a search and came across a KB article on BlackBerry’s web site. Apparently, you need to run the following command on your Exchange servers when you add new databases. It will grant the needed permissions to the database and its users for the BES Admin account. I thought this was done globally when we setup the Exchange 2010 server, but I guess that isn’t the case.

BlackBerry Exchange

Published May 24, 2012 by Eric

Exchange 2010 DAG

So we have just migrated our users over to Exchange 2010 a couple of months ago. When we started we purchased a new server and set it up with Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010. The plan was to migrate all of our users from the old Exchange 2007 server to the new Exchange 2010 and then rebuild the old one with Exchange 2010 also so we could take advantage of the new DAG options. It all sounded easy enough.

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Published April 12, 2012 by Eric

Exchange 2010 – Get ItemCount for mailbox

We had a user that had a very large mailbox (313,000+ items and a size over 50GB) and we couldn’t figure out why. My first thought was that it was a corrupt mailbox and it was just reporting the wrong size. However, when I moved the mailbox to a new server the size remained the same and the move didn’t show any corrupted messages.

I sat down and looked at the mailbox on the users computer and checked the Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items. None of those had any large messages. The largest message may have been 1MB. The user did have a lot of folders, but I didn’t want to take the time to go through each one individually and try to figure out where the messages were at.

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Published August 22, 2011 by Eric

Windows Installer in Safe Mode

So I got a new laptop at work the other day. Just like any computer that I get I do a complete wipe and reload from the OS up just because I don’t like all the extra stuff that comes preloaded. So I grab my Windows 7 x64 with SP1 disc and do the install. Everything looks good. I get all the drivers loaded and get it updated. I start installing applications again no problem until I try to install Corel WordPerfect X5. I get through the whole installation and then it tells me my system wasn’t modified.

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Published August 22, 2011 by Eric

Allow access to certain websites using IE

At work, we have a few computers that sit in the open that needed to be used to access our website. Here are the steps we followed to lock Internet Explorer down to only our web site.

Go to Control Panel (Click Start, Control Panel)
Open Internet Options by double-clicking on it
Click the Connections tab
Click the LAN Settings button at the bottom
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