If we are able to export data from public folders we should be able to export data from mailboxes. What I have done is taken the same code used in the Public Folder to HTML blog but, just replaced the public folder commands with mailbox commands. Note: To be able to use the sortable feature you will need to download the JS script form this website, http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/. I encourage changing the HTML output to reflect the needs of your environment. When you change th... [More]

The more I work with PowerShell the more impressed I am with how useful of a tool it is to manage Exchange. In this blog I want to illustrate how easy it is to pull Public Folder data from your Exchange environment and export that data into a HTML format.  I think in every environment I have ever worked in or supported, Public Folders have grown out of control. This causes organizations to have to back up and replicate old and irrelevant data. Most administrators ignore cleaning up Public F... [More]

Don’t you hate when you have large distribution groups in your environment with enabled and disabled accounts as members and when you send email messages to the account NDRs are sent throughout the environment. As may or may not know, there are options in Exchange on how to handle NDRs for distribution groups. My issue is with the options provided by Exchange, for example enabling certain features against a DG could remove valid NDRs or create a lot of false positives. To combat this probl... [More]

Each migration I work on has a different set of requirements to move users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Some customers use the Exchange Manager Console to move users, which works fine. My latest customer asked me to help them move mailboxes based on users in a specific OU. So I created a powershell command that will export the alias and database for accounts that reside in a specific OU. Once we had the output file we could pipe the CSV file (with a couple modifications) into our move ma... [More]

A request came up in a newsgroup for a script which would automate the creation of a primary zone on one DNS server, enable zone transfers, and then configure a secondary zone on another DNS server.  A first generation release of a script was posted today.  If there is interest for a more flexible script which has more options for things like where the zone is stored, what the zone security is, etc, then I will gladly revise the script. For now, it’s fully functional and a link ... [More]