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Migration Preparation script

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This script idea came up after being involved in a migration project. Published: 2013-05-22 Updated: 2013-05-24 Version: 1.1 It’s purpose with this script is for getting Quest Migration Manager (QMM) being able to match objects between domains. In a scenario with one-way trust and not being able to use Quest Migration Manager AD or any

Exchange 2013 script – automatic installation of prerequisites

Exchange 2013 script – automatic installation of prerequisitesps-code

I’ve updated a script that was intended for installing prerequisites for Exchange 2010 that were released by a couple of peoples (Anderson Patricio, Pat Richard and Bhargav Shukla). This script have now been updated and applies to Exchange 2013. It will help you with installing all prerequisites (features) plus the FilterPack(s) and the Unified Communications

Author of a book – PowerShell cookbook

Author of a book – PowerShell cookbook9427EN_MockupCover_Cookbook

If you have missed the news on my twitter, I can tell you that the last 6 months I’ve been busy with writing a book called “Microsoft Exchange 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: second edition” for Packt Publishing. That’s also why the blog not have been updated that much lately, now it’s time to startup with the

How to set “office” value for multiple Shared Mailboxes

How to set “office” value for multiple Shared Mailboxespowershell

Published: 2013-02-25 Updated: – Version: 1.0 This script was developed because there was a need to configure every Shared Mailbox with a office value. In Exchange the value is called “Office” while in Active Directory this value is called “physicalDeliveryOfficeName”. The script is retrieving all shared mailboxes where the office value isn’t populated and creates

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 3: How to configure site URL’s, Databases and Outlook Anywhere

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 3: How to configure site URL’s, Databases and Outlook Anywhereimage_thumb.png

I suppose you already have, but if you haven’t read my previous parts in this Exchange 2013 serie, have a look at the links below. Part 1: Complete guide of how to perform the installation Part 2: How to do the Basic configuration This part will include details on how the configuration could be made

Exchange Server 2013 Preview – Part 2: How to do the Basic configuration

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If you haven’t read it already, I did post a complete guide for installing Exchange 2013, it can be found here. That was part 1, now it’s time for part 2. Which of course is the configuration of the server setup. We have lots of changes between how you configured Exchange 2007/2010 and 2013. First

C#.NET – Create Mailboxes

C#.NET – Create Mailboxesimage_thumb.png

Updated: Version 1.0.1 is released I’ve added the possibility to create Room, Equipment and Shared Mailboxes. The zip file with the application is now updated, one CSV example file is included. ===== This is my 3rd C#.Net application, this one is creating mailboxes based on CSV file (semi colon separated). I’m using FileHelpers for reading

Selected PowerShell commands, output to CSV file

Selected PowerShell commands, output to CSV filepowershell

Here’s a sample on a basic PowerShell script that combines Get-Mailbox, Get-User and Get-MailboxStatistics commands. The specified objects will be saved into a CSV file. You can download the script here. I would be more than happy for any kind of comment or feedback Feel free to use the script below

Search for PST files on clients

Search for PST files on clientsdocument-code

Wrote a basic PowerShell script that searches all computers listed in the clients.txt file. Saving the pst files into the destination path. For each computer, a folder is created with the corresponding computer name so that the PST files is collected per client. Before the PST Capture Tool was released I wrote a post about

Consolidate PST files

Consolidate PST filescoding

Published: 2012-01-25 Updated: – Version: 1.0 A time ago I was developing a PowerShell script for finding all PST files on a drive and copying them to a folder. Type in a drive that should be searched and the UNC path to save them on The script have been tested and verified on Exchange 2010