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Disk space is vital to the health of an Exchange Server. Without disk, you don’t have email, thus Exchange monitoring - disk space is vital. Exchange is dependent on having disk because every time an email is sent it’s written to disk, without it you’re S.O.L.
About a year ago, we published an article on how to manage preservation policies in the new Security and Compliance Center in Office 365 via PowerShell. Over the course of the last year, a great number of new features have been added to the SCC, which is now the central place for data governance in Office 365. With some minor exceptions, all of the functionalities exposed in the SCC are very sensitive and controlling access to them is vital. In this article, we will cover some methods to restrict access to the SCC features. By using PowerShell, of course!
Earlier this week, Tony Redmond wrote about Jeffrey Snover – also known as the godfather of PowerShell – being promoted to Technical Fellow at Microsoft; one of the highest achievable ranks.
Given that Jeffrey is considered to be the founding father of PowerShell, that does not really come as a surprise, as PowerShell has changed the way we work and interact with systems. And this does not only apply to large-scale environments or cloud solutions like Office 365.
Every mailbox object in Exchange has a series of fields called custom attributes. These can be found by right-clicking on a mailbox in the Exchange Management Console, choosing properties and then clicking on the custom attributes button in the bottom right-hand corner of the window.
Have you ever needed to change your Default Role Assignment Policy in Exchange 2010 through Exchange Management Shell? An example of when you might want to do this is to prevent users from creating organizationally visible distribution lists through Outlook Web App. Recently I realized that there may be a problem with the Set-RoleAssignmentPolicy command that can be used to set your users default role assignment policy. Here is what was experienced.
As an Exchange administrator, backup and recovery of your databases is an important aspect of your environment. There should be defined and streamlined processes in place for your environment as it relates to this topic. Why is this important? You may have an end-user that cannot find that very important message they received a couple of weeks ago or the data may be important for that legal investigation that unexpectedly came up.
Have you encountered an instance where Exchange cannot deliver mail to a destination on the Internet? This is becoming more and more common. You may question why this is happening in the first place and why it’s becoming more common.
For those involved with Exchange migration projects or managing Exchange environments, at some point you probably have experienced a situation where individuals ended up with duplicate items in their mailbox. Duplicate items can be caused by many things, but most common are:
Many customers nowadays are running a virtualized Exchange environment, utilizing Database Availability Groups, load balanced Client Access Servers and the works. However, I also see environments where it is up to the Hypervisor of choice on the hosting of virtual machines after a (planned) fail-over. This goes for Exchange servers, but also for redundant infrastructure components like Domain Controllers or Lync Front-End servers for example.
As we are now in Part 7 of this series, let's recap the previous parts.
In Parts 1 and 2, we established our domain design, covered how to provision the Domain Controller for the LAB in Hyper-V and then how to install Windows Server 2012 on the Domain Controller, and we went through the process of installing Active Directory Domain Services on the LAB domain controller using PowerShell.