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This is the next part detailing how the script here works. The first part detailed the rough design of the script and the main function that creates the transaction objects that are passed through the script.
This part adds some sample Task functions and the main body of the script to kick it all off. Continue reading “PowerShell: A Simple Batch Processing System, Part 2”
Hi. I’ve written a few scripts that have gotten to be quite large. In all cases they’ve needed to make a series of changes to a set of objects and log the results. It’s normally important that some of the later changes only get made if the earlier ones are successful; for example only changing the default SMTP address on a mailbox if another SMTP address was added earlier.
This series of posts will go into a decent system I’ve found for accomplishing this with some skeleton examples that are (hopefully!) easy to adapt. Continue reading “PowerShell: A Simple Batch Processing System, Part 1”
This is the skeleton of a Batch Processing System (Importing from a CSV file, performing consecutive tasks that are dependant on the previous task completing and then outputting the result).
I detailed how it works in Part 1 here and in Part 2 here. Continue reading “PowerShell: A Simple Batch Processing System”
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”
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?”
Hi. Last week a customer asked me find out which mailboxes had eaten all the pies on a particular Exchange server; getting a list of the largest mailboxes and whether they were in a disconnected state (already removed and waiting purge).
To get an accurate picture I needed to take into account the deleted items in the mailbox as well. It’s a small command but it’s got a few squirrelly bits I’ll go into as well after the line. Continue reading “PowerShell: Get Largest Mailboxes on an Exchange Server (One-Line Command)”
The Send-As permission for objects in Exchange is set on the AD object (rather than the mailbox itself). Normally, the weapon of choice is the Add-ADPermission cmdlet but interestingly that cmdlet is only available if you have some serious Exchange permissions; Organization Management. What you’re doing though requires fairly low-level AD permissions; you’re just modifying some attributes on an object. So I did some investigation and came up with a function to set Send-As permissions without using Add-ADPermission. Continue reading “PowerShell: Setting Exchange Send-As Permissions without Using the Add-ADPermission cmdlet”
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