Exchange 2010 – Using Remote PowerShell

Exchange LogoToday I’ve been looking into how I can create and Exchange Mailbox using PowerShell.

A little background. We have been using PowerShell to create new Active Directory accounts for awhile, but hadn’t looked into being able to create the mailbox on Exchange at the same time. The biggest problem (more a concern) is that I thought we needed to install the Exchange Management Tools (EMC and EMS) on our domain controllers or admin desktops. I was concerned these servers and computers wouldn’t get updated at the same time as our Exchange Servers and I didn’t want services packs and other updates to get out of sync.…

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PowerShell ISE on Windows 8

I’ve just started using the PowerShell ISE recently and started to really like the ability to type some commands and then run the code and test. So I was a little disappointed to find out that Windows 8 doesn’t have an icon for it on the the Start screen by default. You can however find…

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PowerShell and ActiveMQ

PowerShell logoWe have a project going on at work that requires us to take gather specific information about users from Active Directory and get it into another system. We already use PowerShell to create all of our new user accounts so we wanted to stick with that. However, the other system we have to get the information into requires us to write the AD information to an ActiveMQ queue. The preferred format for this information is XML. So I was asked to come up with a way to accomplish this.…

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