Exchange 2010/2013/2016 and Exchange Online – List which RBAC role group / role the current logged user has

Hi all ! Another quick post – I post mostly to be able to refer it back when I’ll need it and also when I suspect I’ll need it quite often in the near future and also to let you guys know of course – now this post is about listing which RBAC Roles does...

November 1, 2017



Pure PowerShell Post–Variation From Previous Post - Commented Sample Using PowerShell Progress Bar With Secondary Progress Bar …

#STEPS FOR USING A PROGRESS BAR - With Child Progress Bar...   #NOTE: You can copy paste that whole post to an ISE or a NOTEPAD and save it as a .ps1 script - the explanations are put in comments for that purpose :-)     #STEP 1 - Get your main objects collection you're...

October 30, 2017



Pure PowerShell Post–Going Through Setting a Basic PowerShell Progress Bar–For future reference when I’ll need to use/demo a progress bar …

#STEPS FOR USING A PROGRESS BAR #NOTE: You can copy paste that whole post to an ISE or a NOTEPAD and save it as a .ps1 script - the explanations are put in comments for that purpose :-)     #STEP 1 - Get your main objects collection you're going to browse and for which...

October 29, 2017



Pure Powershell Post–Sample on How to use Custom PS Object to store information of different cmdlets and populate a collection to store into a CSV file

#STEPS FOR USING PS OBJECT TO STORE OBJECT PROPERTIES FROM DIFFERENT CMDLETS AND EXPORTING TO A CSV # NOTE 1: This sample is an application of the PSObject method presented in this blog post : # https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/samdrey/2017/08/11/powershell-objects-useful-to-export-csv-information-coming-from-different-cmdlets/ # # NOTE 2: You can copy paste that whole post to an ISE or a NOTEPAD and...

October 29, 2017



Exchange 2013/2016/O365 Exchange Online – eDiscovery independent Graphical User Interface

Hi all, today I’m giving you a tool that proved its usefulness along the past couple of years for customers of mine. It works on Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, and on Exchange Online from Office 365 from where it was designed: an Exchange Search (eDiscovery) tool that generates and executes Search-Mailbox (“single mailbox search”) or...

September 21, 2017



Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2016–a quick note about Server FQDN aka NLB fqdn

  While planning or deploying Exchange 2013/2016, don’t forget these to have the correct Load Balancing on your Exchange 2013/2016 servers:   Assuming your Exchange 2013/2016 namespace is mail.contoso.com, which points to your Load Balancer’s IP address. Set Outlook Anywhere Internal and External URLs to mail.contoso.com https://practical365.com/exchange-server/exchange-2013-client-access-server-high-availability/   Use the following: Get-OutlookAnywhere | Set-OutlookAnywhere -InternalHostname...

September 15, 2017



Powershell Objects–How to export-csv information coming from different cmdlets and with potentially multi-valued attributes

Hi all,   Since I keep forgetting where this great post is located, I’m just putting a bookmark here. This article is discussing about the different ways to populate a PowerShell Custom Object. What can we use PowerShell Custom Object for ? Actually on Exchange for example (including Exchange Online), we sometimes need to have...

August 11, 2017



Quick dirty post–Powershell Script to check registry keys on remote servers (check for E2010 fixed ports)

Hi all, I know Exchange 2010 is almost outdated, but that’s just for my reference and also for an example about how to query registry keys at the same time : this script checks servers for specific registry keys, in this example it checks for the registry keys we used in Exchange 2010 to fix...

August 11, 2017



Exchange 2010 and later – use PowerBI to visualize Message Tracking log stats and use as an User Profile Analyzer

Hi all ! My posts are pretty rare these days, some projects are still on the pipe but the pipe froze last winter… Anyways I wanted to share with you guys the principle and methodology to use our excellent PowerBI to analyze and visualize for you the Exchange Message Tracking Logs. This has been brought...

June 18, 2017



Skype for Business and Outlook - Presence information on Outlook – how to get it ? Answer is here (with “the Ugly, the Bad and the Good” illustration scenarios)

  Hi all !   Long time no see but I’m still around, doing some Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 and Office 365 (mostly Exchange Online but also a bit of Skype For Business – IM and presence only for now) stuff like migrations, knowledge transfer, etc… So a couple of months ago I was asked...

August 15, 2016