• Exchange 2010 – Add Reviewer to Room Resource

    Today we had someone make a request for a few users to be able to see what appointments were scheduled for some room resources.  They didn’t want these people to add any appointments, but just needed to be able to see what was scheduled rather than seeing “Busy”.  I came across this site which has…

  • UPDATED: Exchange 2010 – Move mailbox to new AD account

    At work we are getting ready to create new user accounts for everyone and move their mailbox from the current AD account to the new account. The reason for this is a bit lengthy, but a big reason is people have been granted permissions based on their AD account rather than by group membership. So…

  • Exchange 2010 – Using Remote PowerShell

    Today 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…

  • 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…

  • PowerShell and ActiveMQ

    We 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…

  • Outlook – Can’t open link when clicked

    The other day I started having problems opening links that were emailed to me. I would get the message in Outlook and then click the link, but would get a message saying: This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on your computer. The solution was to run the following commands from an…

  • Exchange 2010 – Create Contacts from CSV

    Create a CSV file that contains the following columns: ExternalEmailAddress Name Alias FirstName LastName OrganizationalUnit Then from the Exchange Management Shell run the following command: Import-CSV C:scriptsMyCSV.csv | ForEach-Object{New-MailContact -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -Name $_.Name -Alias $_.Alias -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $_.OrganizationalUnit}

  • Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.x – New Exchange 2010 Database

    I just created some new databases on our Exchange 2010 server and moved some BlackBerry users to those new databases. I started getting calls from people saying they weren’t getting emails on the BlackBerry’s. I did some checking and found some event logs on the BES server that said the users could not be started.…

  • Exchange 2010 DAG

    So we have just migrated our users over to Exchange 2010 a couple of months ago. When we started we purchased a new server and set it up with Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010. The plan was to migrate all of our users from the old Exchange 2007 server to the new Exchange 2010…

  • Exchange 2010 – Get ItemCount for mailbox

    We had a user that had a very large mailbox (313,000+ items and a size over 50GB) and we couldn’t figure out why. My first thought was that it was a corrupt mailbox and it was just reporting the wrong size. However, when I moved the mailbox to a new server the size remained the…