Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
The new version of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Thanks to some suggestions from readers, I was able to fix a few bugs and add a new feature. There will also be an update routine for the next versions so that not all data has to be re-entered. However, version 0.9 will have to be reinstalled. Furthermore, there are ... Read more
If you only want to allow Active Sync for certain users, you can let a script do the work for you. This small script initially deactivates Active Sync for all mailboxes and then only activates it for the mailboxes in the file "user_with_activesync.csv". Contents of the file "set-activesyncuser.ps1" Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true get-mailboxdatabase | get-mailbox | Set-CasMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $false ... Read more
The update RollUp 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 has been released. The update can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=6b2fb2d9-df78-4cef-8ea3-2a913a89ac4a A list with the included fixes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661854 Furthermore the update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 has been released, this rollup can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=51d1079c-b5e2-418d-9431-0e556917c5de and also ... Read more
Users of Outlook or OWA are able to create rules for their mailboxes, for example if they want to forward mails to another person when they are on vacation. However, it sometimes happens that users forget that they have activated rules. There is, however, the option to view the rules that a user ... Read more
The new version 0.8 of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Many thanks to Gerd, Jürgen and Marcel for pointing out some bugs. The changes can be found in the ChangeLog. Go to the page here Unfortunately, there is still the problem that the sorting of the weekdays in the bar charts for the mail statistics is mixed up. I am working ... Read more
In my spare time I have dedicated myself to a new project, the "Exchange Reporter". This is a Powershell script that creates a weekly report and sends it by e-mail. The report contains the following data: -number of sent mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -number of received mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -received/sent mails per weekday ... Read more
Resource mailboxes are a great thing. Meeting rooms and devices can be easily invited to an appointment. Resource mailboxes manage your calendars independently and automatically accept or reject bookings if the resource is already occupied. The administrator can control how long a resource can be booked. To get a quick overview of the utilization ... Read more
Mike Pfeiffer has written a nice function for counting active Exchange users. This helped me a lot today, here is the entire article: http://www.mikepfeiffer.net/2011/04/determine-the-number-of-active-users-on-exchange-2010-client-access-servers-with-powershell/ Many thanks at this point.
On request, the script was supplemented by the specification of the port for the smarthost. Many thanks for the hint and the suggestion at this point J The current version can be downloaded here: https://www.frankysweb.de/download/configure-exchange_v1.20.zip
The CMDlet "Test-OutlookWebServices" is useful for detecting configuration problems, but unfortunately the CMDlet is a little bit bitchy until it runs J This error usually occurs when running Test-OutlookWebServices: WARNING: Unexpected error. A Watson image is generated: The mailbox was not found. Mailbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'.. The mailbox was not found. Inbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'. + CategoryInfo ... Read more
