I recently worked with a customer who had inadvertently deleted all their user accounts (and thus their Exchange mailboxes), and with no backup available, they had to recreate them. Talk about a nightmare! After they did so, they were able to get their email back, but they discovered that replying to...

As a result of last week’s virus outbreak, I’ve been getting some questions about how to clean viruses out of public folders. Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent of Export-Mailbox to pull infected messages out of public folders. However, it’s pretty easy to write a script to...

I just had a customer who needed to migrate contacts from an external database into a public folder. They could export the contacts from the database to a CSV, but they needed a way to get the CSV into the public folder. Last night, I whipped up this quick script. This morning, I was looking at my...

In the course of troubleshooting Exchange issues, one discovers a lot of instances where scripting against the Information Store is useful. There are a few ways to access the Information Store from scripts, but for this post I will focus exclusively on two methods. First I’ll discuss using Outlook Object...