Author Archives: SSettle

Who was that message sent to?

Posted on January 9, 2010 by SSettle

Sometimes you need to know specifically who a message was sent to and there may be no obvious way to determine that (such as it may have been sent to a distribution group, or the sender may have used BCC, … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes Associated with Disabled Users

Posted on January 16, 2009 by SSettle

Periodically you may wish to identify mailboxes that are still active in Exchange 2007 but which are not associated with active AD users.  As you are aware, some mailboxes within Exchange require disabled accounts, so you generally want to exclude … Continue reading →

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Automating Lotus Notes Credential in Transporter powershell cmdlets

Posted on November 8, 2008 by SSettle

One of the first challenges that we ran into was having to constantly type the password for the various transporter cmdlets that we placed into any of our automation for the conversion of mailboxes from Notes to Exchange. There are … Continue reading →

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Report NDRs because a mailbox was full for the previous day

Posted on November 2, 2008 by SSettle

If you have service levels to maintain in your environment and a finite amount of disk space, there is a pretty good chance that you have mailbox quotas set to prevent users from over running your storage space. Periodically you … Continue reading →

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Checking for a failure after executing statement

Posted on October 8, 2008 by SSettle

In PowerShell, you can check to see if there were any errors reported by the previously executed cmdlet in several ways. The most useful that I found for basic error handling was the built-in variable $?, which indicates the success … Continue reading →

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Finding files modified after a given timestamp

Posted on September 26, 2008 by SSettle

If you want to work on files in a directory structure that were only modified since before or after a specific timestamp, you can use the below methodology to return a list of the matching items.  This is useful if … Continue reading →

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Valid Enum Values

Posted on September 21, 2008 by SSettle

If you need to know the possible valid values for a cmdlet argument and the parameter type is an enum value, the most useful way to get a list of the possible values For Example

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Start-ExchangeConversion

Posted on September 7, 2008 by SSettle

So a recent major project at work has been converting us off of Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007. All I can say is thank god, it was painful going from Exchange 5.5 to Notes. I’m sure that’ll bring the out … Continue reading →

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Useful regular expression tutorials

Posted on June 28, 2008 by SSettle

These are some rather useful regular expression tutorials I stumbled across. Basic Regular Expressions Extreme regex foo

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Converting Virtual Server images to VMWare (Missing symmpi.sys)

Posted on December 18, 2007 by SSettle

I had an issue where I was trying to convert some Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 images to VMWare images to run them on my mac.  The images were running Server 2003.  You don’t have to worry about it on … Continue reading →

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