Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
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”
Within Exchange (on-premise or Online) it’s sometimes helpful to export the delegate permissions that a user can set within their mailbox. Get-MailboxFolderPermission is the cmdlet which will export that information for a particular folder. The identifier needs to be in the format “john@contoso.com:\Marketing\Reports”.
That said there’s not an easy way to export the permissions on ALL folders within a mailbox and the output for that command isn’t very helpful for further processing.
So; script. It’ll take a mailbox as a parameter and output the permissions on all the mailbox folders (and subfolders) as objects.
I wrote a post about the initial version of the script and how it works in Part 1 here.
The first update, allowing the function to deal with special folders and the root better is here (Part 2).
I’ve also made the script stand-alone now (rather than a function). So just save this as a .ps1 file and run it with the MailboxToProcess parameter and it will work.
ie;
$MB=Get-Mailbox Ororo.Monroe
c:\scripts\path\New-FolderPermissionReportObjectArray.ps1 -MailboxToProcess $MB
Continue reading “PowerShell: Export All Exchange Mailbox Folder Permissions In A Format For Further Processing”
Our last day in Iceland rolled around. One final breakfast, a quick burst of shopping and off home. Continue reading “Iceland : Day 7”
Time to do the tourist thing and wander the shops in Reykjavik. Though we took some time to watch “puffins” too. Continue reading “Iceland : Day 6”
Golden Circle today! A ring of interesting sights from Reykjavik into central Iceland and back. Lots to see and a long day’s driving. But awesomeness ahead! Continue reading “Iceland : Day 5”
Woke up today with aches and pains where I wasn’t even aware I had body-parts. Apparently all the contortions I pulled to keep the right horse-riding posture were pretty new to a body finely-tuned and optimised for long-term computer use. Luckily, we were booked to visit The Blue Lagoon; a large geothermally heated spa.
Time to regenerate damaged muscles in mineral-rich, heated water.
Today we’d booked into an Icelandic horse riding tour. The rest of the family love horse-riding but I’m always a bit wary of anything involving living creatures (or “random behaviour simulators”, as I describe them). But Icelandic horses are different to the ones we have in the rest of Europe so I was a bit curious to try them out. Continue reading “Iceland : Day 3”
Herring's Fishbait 