Random thoughts from a Microsoft Customer Engineer
Random thoughts from a Microsoft Customer Engineer
Do you have an existing AD OU/domain structure that you use to group and/or delegate administrative access to on-premises Exchange resources? This includes examples such as Role Based Access Control (RBAC) delegations for de-centralized resource administration and also Dynamic Distribution…
Have you ever been in the middle of running a PowerShell script and hit CTRL-C to stop it, and realize you just lost the tracking of all work performed and/or information gathered up to that point? It’s even worse when…
This blog post covers two different scenarios when an In-Place Hold is removed off an eDiscovery Mailbox Search, but that corresponding entry is not cleaned up properly on the mailboxes formerly targeted by that Mailbox Search. When this happens, you…
Have you ever used Get-Credential to generate credentials in PowerShell, only to find out when you go to use those credentials that they were invalid? It’s even worse when you are doing this in a script where the script throws…
Have you ever wanted to track the progress of one of your multi-step/stage PowerShell scripts on a computer, just in case during the middle of the steps the script (or PowerShell itself) terminates unexpectedly, or something randomly reboots the computer?…
While this code was originally developed for an Exchange script, you can use it for any PowerShell script where you want to make sure some background process/service is finished before proceeding on with the rest of your script. I recently…
In some of my scripts, such as Get-AutoDiscoverRecords.ps1, I convert the string output of another command (such as an LDAP query) into a Date and Time variable by using the type cast [DateTime]. For example the following will turn the…
Time for some fun with PowerShell. 🙂 Updated to include code Eric created to determine the last day of the quarter at the bottom of this entry My colleague Eric Powers has PowerShell script that queries a bunch of data…
This is the second in a two-part blog post covering the topic of how to maintain version control over PowerShell scripts and Exchange 2016 deployment files in a large environment. The first blog post should be reviewed before continuing here…
This is the first in a two-part blog post covering the topic of how to maintain version control over PowerShell scripts and Exchange 2016 deployment files in a large distributed environment (the second post titled Leveraging the PowerShell Script Version…