Ex-Room delegates still receiving invites

I found old room delegates were still receiving meeting invites.. . Cam across this article which details how to use the MFCMAPI tool to remove the hidden mailbox rule. Deleted Delegates Still Receive Meeting Invites for Other Mailbox Users http://exchangeserverpro.com/deleted-delegates-still-receive-meeting-invites-for-other-mailbox-users

Powershell TimeStamp

I like to have a timestamp when running reports, here is a nice quick one. $MyDate = get-date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd-HHmm" Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692801.aspx

Exchange 2010 One liner to add additional email address

Set-Mailbox user -EmailAddresses (((Get-Mailbox user).EmailAddresses)+="smtp:secondary@domain.com")

Exchange 2010 Database Size Report one liner

Here is a one liner for reporting the MS Exchange Database sizes, sorted by GB. Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select name,@{Expression={$_.DatabaseSize.ToGB()};Label="DatabaseSizeInGB"} | sort DatabaseSizeInGB -Descending

Exchange 2010 updating the offline address book

I have sat waiting for address book update in the past hare are the notes - It is important to get the update address book to the CAS servers before expecting to see changes in Outlook. 1. '\Default Offline Address List' | update-offlineAddressBook Open Exchange Management Console, expand Organization Configuration, select the Offline Address Book Tab, Select the Default Offline Address Book , right click select update. 2. run the following to have the CAS servers pull the update from the mailbox server Update-FileDistributionService -Identity SERVERNAME -Type OAB the CAS servers store this in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\OAB. 3. In Outlook 2010 go to Send and Receive and download the Address List.

Exchange 2010 - Change Out Of Office for another user

Here is the link to the MS Blog that details how to change the Out Of Office for another user. Powershell of OWA. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/09/08/configure-automatic-replies-for-a-user-in-exchange-2010.aspx

Missing Out of Office menu on Blackberry 9650

I was able to restore the option for a user by deleting the Desktop CMime and DesktopSync service books from the device. Then clicking to resend the service books from the Blackberry Enterprise Console. I had read some forums that said to upgrade the Blackberry, the specific Blackberry the user was having a problem with was running the latest software from Verizon which was 6.0.0.719 (Platform 4.4.0.560).

Assigning a new policy to a BlackBerry User

This applies to BlackBerry Enterprise Edition 5.0.3 MR6 . Find the user, Click Policies Tab, Click Edit User, Use the drop down to select the policy, Click Save All. On the Policies tab you will see "IT policy name" and "Resolved IT policy name" Click back to the Manage User screen for the specific user. Under Device Deployment, click Resend IT policy to a device You should see near the top of the page "The IT policy has been queued to send to the device." To get more information under "Device Management" click "View Tasks" This should open a search page with the user name already filled in. Click search and you should see the most recent tasks - mien had stated Task type "IT policy" with a task of "Installing", status "Successful".

Blackberry Service Books

Found a good listing of Blackberry Service Books and what they are used for:
http://www.berryreview.com/2009/01/22/faq-explanation-of-each-blackberry-service-book-type/
I recently contacted RIM when I came across the following issue:
Use Auto Signature or Out Of Office reply options on the BlackBerry smartphone are missing or non-functional(http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB24327)

There is incorrect data in the Desktop [CMIME] or Desktop [SYNC] service books.

The downside there is they are able to tell me a way to find users with the problem before the user uses it. And according to the tech I spoke to no way to remove the service book remotely.

Powershell ScriptCop

I am a fan of Perl Critic the perl tool which gies feedback on your Perl scripts to see if they follow standard conventions, when I read about ScriptCop for PowerShell I downloaded it and tested it out. Seems like a great start to have Perl Critic functions for PowerShell.

Downloaded and copied the files here:

C:\Users\FunkyUser\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\ScriptCop

Folder Tree
C:\Users\FunkyUser\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules>tree
Folder PATH listing
Volume serial number is 803E-1130
C:.
└───ScriptCop
├───en-us
├───Fixers
├───Patrols
└───Rules

I was then able to use Import-Module ScriptCop.
Finally I used Test-Command Scriptname.ps1 and got some feedback on my code.

I was hoping that I would be able to run a fix and get the indenting corrected, however I didn’t find that function in the existing download.

The Scripting Guy had wrote about ScriptCop, also to note I leared about ScriptCop while looking at Powershell notes on Stack OverFlow.
http://stackoverflow.com/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/07/30/use-scriptcop-to-help-write-better-powershell-scripts.aspx

Experts Exchange v .10 is coming!!

I have been an Expert at Experts-Exchange for years. I find answering questions helps me stay up to date. Also asking questions there can help my cut down on time needed to research issues.

Exchange 2010 - Mailbox Repair Request

Good link with details:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nawar/archive/2010/08/19/exchange-2010-sp1-new-mailboxrepairrequest.aspx

No more ISINTEG. You can run this while online - that enough is reason to upgrade!

Here is the syntax for the mailbox I ran a repair on today.
New-MailboxRepairRequest -mailbox UserName -CorruptionType ProvisionedFolder,SearchFolder,AggregateCounts,Folderview

The link above gives the detailed event ID numbers to search for to see the results.
You need to check the server which has the mailbox database active to see the results, not the machine the cmdlet was run from.

Windows Batch - Gett Variable with formatted Date

Have just spent some time searching for a way to get my preferred date format into a file name.

Year
Month
Date

http://blog.g-ball.com/2010/08/26/year-month-day-date-batch-script/

Burn ISO files via command line !!

My favorite cd burner application also support command line use.
This will help me with a script I am working on.

CD Burner XP

Example, takes folder and burns to iso file:
"C:\Program Files\CDBurnerXP\cdbxpcmd.exe" --burn-data -folder:e:\AVDefs\20111024 -iso:E:\AVDefISO20111024.iso

http://cdburnerxp.se/help/Appendices/commandlinearguments

Testing TCP Ports with Powershell

Send-MailMessage is a great addition with Powershell version 2.0, it greatly reduces the complexity of send a test SMTP message, including allowing attachments.

Just found a good script to allow testing TCP ports.
http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2009/10/28/scripting-network-tcp-connections-in-powershell/
Send-TcpRequest.ps1

I was able ot use that script/ example along with
the notes on this page to test access to a proxy.
http://tuxbaby.blogspot.com/2009/04/testing-squid-proxy-via-telnet.html

Exchange 2010 SP1 - Help File

Microsoft released Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Help File


Download Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1573

Exchange 2010 Visio Stencils

Here is the download link for the Exchange 2010 Stencils
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=6977

Exchange 2010 and requirement to export csv multivalue properties

EmailAddresses is a multivalue property.


I found the following page to be a great help in getting the fields I wanted exported to csv file.

https://exchangeshare.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/powershell-export-multivalued-properties/


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Copyable Google Search Result URLs

I had issues trying to copy urls from google search resutls....here is how I solved it.

Greese Monkey
with
Google Search Remove Redirection
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57679

Followed suggestions at - http://www.consumingexperience.com/2009/10/google-search-results-redirection.html

I am using the HTTPS everywhere add-on for firefox, so I had to select to manage the script then in the gui I added https://encrypted.google.com

Windows Updates required by Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1

When I recently performed an install of Microsoft Exchange 2010 with Service Pack 1 and Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Rollup 1 in the upgrades folder...

I found the following patches were required:
KB977020
KB979744
KB982867
KB983440