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September 9, 2016September 9, 2016

An Englishman in California, Day 5: San Francisco to Yosemite

Off for the next leg of the trip, from San Francisco to Yosemite First, we needed wheels…. Continue reading “An Englishman in California, Day 5: San Francisco to Yosemite”

September 9, 2016September 9, 2016

An Englishman in California, Day 1

We’d been planning a road-trip through California for a long time and finally we got a chance a do it. Here’s what we did, day-by-day. Continue reading “An Englishman in California, Day 1”

August 19, 2016August 5, 2016

PowerShell: Test a File Is Locked

A nice, short function this one;

<# .SYNOPSIS Tests if a file is locked. #>
function Test-FileLocked
{
    param
    (
        [string]$FilePath
    )
    try { [IO.File]::OpenWrite($FilePath).close();return $false }
    catch {return $true}
}

August 12, 2016August 5, 2016

PowerShell: Create a CSV Report of Mailbox Sizes

The following is a simple script to generate a mailbox size report CSV for a set of email addresses. The full function and explanation follows.

Continue reading “PowerShell: Create a CSV Report of Mailbox Sizes”

August 5, 2016October 10, 2016

PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 6

Hi. Here’s another update on the Sync-Folder script here. In this part I add some more code to use literal paths (so that special characters don’t cause the sync to fail) and a report of the numbers of copies, updates, folder removals etc performed.

Update : I’ve revisited this script a few times with new additions and modifications.The latest full version of the script is here. That post also includes links covering the other revisions to the script. Continue reading “PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 6”

July 29, 2016

PowerShell: Is an Object a Mailbox or Remote-Mailbox?

Before you start processing a bunch of Exchange objects sometimes you might want to check if they’re Mailboxes or RemoteMailboxes. The script (and explanation) is after the break. Continue reading “PowerShell: Is an Object a Mailbox or Remote-Mailbox?”

July 22, 2016August 24, 2020

PowerShell: Check if an Email Address is Valid

There’s a pretty simple way to test if something is a valid email address but it’s nice to wrap that around with a bit of code to test for a stream or array of values.

The function and explanation follows.Here’s the full function with an explanation (and alternative way to make it work) afterwards.