Exchange Ideas - Daniel Kenyon-Smith : PowerShell

ServerManager Depreciated?

danielke — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:46:07 GMT

ServerManagerCmd is deprecated in R2 (we are trying to move away from that model although it still works) See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(EXCHG.140).aspx#WS08R2 (The new command is now Add-WindowsFeature)

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Exchange 2010 Q&A

danielke — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:43:47 GMT

please Join me at this event to talk about Exchange 2010, you can register here

Combined HT and CAS

danielke — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:00:59 GMT

Take a look at the new guidance for combing HT and CAS and you can install both roles by running Setup.com /mode:install /role:H,C (nice and easy)

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Relocate the ADAM (Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS))

danielke — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:33:30 GMT

In order to relocate the ADAM database and logs on Edge you need edit the ConfigureAdam.PS1 to update the location of dsbutil.exe as shown below

Then for example run:-

configureAdam.PS1 –logpath:”E:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TRansportRoles\Data\Adam –DataPath:”D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TRansportRoles\Data\Adam

This will relocate the logs and database to the locations specified

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Transport Rules

danielke — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:46:27 GMT

Whilst working for a customer they had a specific requirement to apply a disclaimer to all outbound mail e.g. not to apply disclaimers to mail sent to other users within the Exchange organisation. Their requirement also included to only apply the disclaimer if it had not already been applied (or where it contained the same text). So i created a powershell script to do this:-

Get-TransportRulePredicate SubjectOrBodyContains

$Action = get-TransportRuleAction ApplyDisclaimer

$Action.Text = “my test disclaimer”

Get-TransportRulePredicate SubjectOrBodyContains

$Exception = Get-TransportRulePredicate SubjectOrBodyContains

$Exception.Words = @("My test disclaimer”)

$Condition = Get-TransportRulePredicate SentToScope

$Condition.Scope = "NotInOrganization"

New-TransportRule –Name “My test” –Action @($Action) –Exception @($Exception) –Condition @($Condition)

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Exchange 2007 SP1 certificate generation

danielke — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:35:00 GMT

I created a cert the other day for a customer so thought I'd share the Powershell command, you never know it might help!

New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -Path c:\CompanyA.csr -KeySize 2048 -SubjectName "c=GB, s=London, l=London, o=CompanyA, cn=Mail.CompanyA.com" -DomainName Server1.CompanyA.com, Server2.CompanyA.com, Autodiscover.CompanyA.com, Server1, Server2 -PrivateKeyExportable $True

This cert will allow CompanyA to access external services to exchange, such as Exchange Active sync (EAS), Outlook Web Access (OWA), Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTPS), etc…

Obviously in order to access these services you will need to setup ISA and publish the relevant rules. In this example Mail.CompanyA.com will be configured in ISA as a multiple path rule, allowing a single url for client access to services like OWA and EAS for example.

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Another Snack to fill you up

danielke — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:37:10 GMT

So another Exchange 2010 snack has been released for your viewing pleasure!

Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2010

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Learning Snacks

danielke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:07:32 GMT

Learning snacks are short and interactive presentations on popular technologies, see this one for Exchange 2010, more to follow.

Take a look at the Learning snack portal for other great presentations.

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PowerShell installation Windows 2008

danielke — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:47:19 GMT

Before you install Exchange 2007 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 server you'll need ensure that prerequisites are installed, by default .NET Framework 2.0 and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) will be installed but you'll need to install Windows PowerShell.

Note: You won't need to go looking around on the Internet for PowerShell all you'll need to do is:-

Go to Control Panel
Programs and features
Select 'Turn windows features on or off'
From Server Manager, click on Features and 'Add Features'
Then scroll down and select WindowsPowershell (as Show below)

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