Create E2010 certificate, Import, Assign, Export, Import on another machine Creating the request ISSUE: there is no -Path or -FileName parameter with the Export-ExchangeCertificate Exchange cmdlet. Just storing my lab’s blurb below, I’ll format it better later on… # Storing the New-ExchangeCertificate parameters value as well as the path we want the file request stored...

Another note from my lab… Exporting PowerShellObject multivalued properties Use the following synthax in the list of properties @{Name="Header name";Expression={$_.MultiValuedProperty -join ";"}} For Example with e-mail addresses from an Exchange mailbox user: Get-Mailbox User001 | Ft Name,DisplayName,@{Name="E-mail addresses";Expression={$_.proxyaddresses -join ";"}} Or to dump the same information in a CSV file, the same hashatable expression @{Name=”Name”;Expression={$_.MultivaluedProperty...

a note from my lab… Looping Get-Content -Tail Of A File When installing a product like Exchange, we would like to know what is it doing beyond the standard setup output showing the high level steps like : C:\E2016CU23>setup.exe /Mode:Install /Roles:Mailbox /TargetDir:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server" /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 13 Unattended Setup Copying...

a note from the field… Activating an Exchange mailbox database on another Datacenter We had an issue today where the databases from the Disaster Recovery (DR) datacenter would not activate because the “Active MAnager” tried to join the server in the failed datacenter and couldn’t. Also, the last status of the database index viewed by...

In this quick procedure we leverage TaskList.exe command (default Windows command line utility) to get a specific process name and ID, and the Netstat.exe command (also a default Windows command line utility) to quickly find the opened connections from a specific application.   Note: you can use other tools to get these, like the Windows...

Here is a GUI to get mailboxes information in an Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and/or Exchange Online (O365) environments. I initially created this GUI just to illustrate how we can use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) forms to ease up the execution of PowerShell commands. Download link is at the very end of this article....

Here’s the latest addition in Exchange 2013/2016/2019 server quick tools. Sometimes, for maintenance or issues detected by Exchange Managed Availability, some components like Client Access, Autodiscover, Mail flow, etc… can be down on Exchange servers, which “exclude” these servers from the pool of Exchange servers. Here’s a tool that helps you to check the state...

I. Introduction See the Download section below for the link to download the tool. In Exchange 2010/2013/2016 and Exchange Online (the messaging component of Office 365), we can create Dynamic Distribution Groups in two ways : Using the Exchange Administration Console (HTML based) Using the Exchange Management Shell (Command line based) More information about the...

Description Download link at the very end of this article… This program is a Graphical User Interface that will help you generating Exchange Management Shell command lines to: Create a Recovery Database using temporary path for the database and its corresponding LOG files set Point that newly created Recovery Database to an existing database file...

Hi all, I was looking for a tool or a script that would help me to test the Exchange Autodiscover process a bit like the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer would do, but standalone and more dedicated to Exchange or O365 (Exchange Online) Autodiscover process. And I found this very practical, simple to use, useful Autodiscover...