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The folks at Microsoft have made it pretty clear that they regard PowerShell (the scripting language formerly known as “monad”) as the future for managing their server products. Exchange 2007 was just...
View ArticleFun With Custom PSObjects
I was recently asked to generate a report on mailbox usage by a specific subset of AEMS users. The tricky part is that the various pieces of info that I need are returned by two distinct Exchange...
View ArticleUsing the EWS Managed API via PowerShell
As part of the rollout of the Exchange 2010 beta, Microsoft has released a beta API library for working with Exchange Web Services which can also be used in conjunction with an Exchange 2007 server. As...
View ArticleUsing EMS to enumerate the e-mail addresses of Distribution Group members
The magic mojo for listing the SMTP addresses of all members of a Distribution Group is as follows: Get-DistributionGroupMember “My Distribution Group Name” | ForEach {$_.PrimarySMTPAddress.ToSTring()}...
View ArticleAddition in PowerShell
In general, PowerShell is able to detect when a mathematical operation is being performed and convert strings on the fly to permit this: PS C:\> $x = 10 + “20” PS C:\> $x 30 However, there are...
View ArticleBehold the power of Get-MailboxFolderStatistics
Not too long ago, I received a ticket from a user who was having quota issues and could not account for what was using up their Exchange quota. With a simple Exchange Management Shell one-liner, I was...
View ArticleExploring Delegates with the EWS Managed API – Part I: The EWS Delegate...
As an Exchange administrator, a long-standing source of frustration for me has been the fact that Microsoft does not provide tools for administratively inspecting and repairing delegate settings....
View ArticleUsing PasswordVault with PowerShell
A handy way to securely store credentials for use by a PowerShell script (particularly one running from within a Scheduled Task) is to use the Windows PasswordVault class. Please note that this should...
View ArticlePowerShell Hash Tables
A hash table is an array of key/value pairs, along with accompanying functions for readily accessing or modifying values by way of their corresponding keys. Creating and Populating a Hash Table Here is...
View ArticleTricking PowerShell Into Treating a String as a Stream
The PowerShell cmdlet Get-FileHash accepts only files or streams as inputs. If I want to generate a hash for a string, I could save it as a file and then feed that file to the command, or I could...
View ArticleCisco AnyConnect breaks network connectivity in Ubuntu running under WSL
Despite being primarily a Windows admin, I like to use my WSL Ubuntu instance to access Unixy-networking commands, but establishing AnyConnect VPN sessions breaks network connectivity within the...
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ChatGPT Writes PowerShell Scripts…Badly
One of the most intriguing features of ChatGPT is its ability to take a plain-English description of desired functionality and turn that into a simple script or program in a variety of programming and...
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