Exchange Mailbox has “Empty HomeMDB attribute” After doing an Mailbox Move one of Mailboxes ran into an issue where it lots its “HomeMDB” attribute. How do we resolve this ? There is a quick and easy fix to resolve this , to start we need to open “ADSI Edit” . Select “Default naming context” Once…
Leave a CommentError Removing Mailbox Database: This Mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes. When you try and remove an “Exchange Mailbox Database” you received the following error: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run…
Leave a CommentHow to remove Exchange 2013 Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post i want to share something that’s very common but i thought i’ll share some steps on removing a mailbox database. This post will focus only on doing these steps using Powershell. Firstly run the following command to get a list of all Exchange…
Leave a CommentCreate Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell How to create an Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell one liner. To create the new Mail Contact run the following in Exchange Shell.
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New-MailContact -Name "Lazy-Mails" -ExternalEmailAddress "LazyAdmin@Gmail.com" -OrganizationalUnit "OU=Contacts,DC=LazyAdmin,DC=com" |
Quick and easy . #ThatlazyAdmin
Leave a CommentExchange Mailbox Move Request Stuck on ‘Queued’ Recently i started doing bulk Mailbox Moves to New DB’s, during this process i found that all the new move-request jobs i started are all stuck on ‘Queued’ status. To resolve this i did the following. List all Move-Request (just to make sure they still all in…
1 CommentRemove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request using PowerShell Lets look at how to remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request with PowerShell.
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Get-MoveRequest |
This will list all current Mailbox Move-Requests InProgress and Completed. To remove run :
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Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false |
Lets looks at combining the “Get” option and only show “Completed” Move-Requests and then remove the “Completed” Move-Requests.
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Get-MoveRequest |Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Completed"} |Remove-MoveRequest |
There you…
Leave a CommentSet Mailbox Max Send and Max Receive limits Lets have a quick look at a one liner to set user mailbox send and receive size limits in Exchange Powershell.
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Set-Mailbox Shaun.Hardneck -MaxReceive "15 MB" -MaxSend "15 MB" |
Now lets look at finding all users with “MaxSendSize” limits greater than “5 MB”
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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.MaxSend -gt "5 MB"} |
#ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentAdd and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell Lets look at some quick Powershell one liners to Remove and Add Distribution Group Members. Add DistributionGroup Member:
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Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyAdmins -Member ShaunH |
Remove DistributionGroup Member:
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Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyUsers -Member John.Long |
Quick and Simple One liners. #ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentRemove Exchange Inbox Rules using PowerShell Lets look at a quick way to view , remove and disable user inbox rules. First lets get list of inbox rules for a user by running the below:
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Get-InboxRule -Mailbox Shaun.Hardneck |
To disable one of the Inbox Rules run the following:
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Disable-InboxRule -Mailbox shaun.hardneck -identity <rule name> |
Next lets view the description of the Inbox…
Leave a CommentSet Office 365 Out Of Office Messages using PowerShell Connect to Office 365 PSSession using a script a created to simplify the connection :Connect-Office365-PSSession
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#This Script was created to assist HelpDesk staff to configure Out Of Office Messages for Staff #Twitter: Shaun.Hardneck #Web: http://thatlazyadmin.com $user = Read-Host "UserName" $sdate = Read-Host "Example of Date "7/10/2015 08:00:00" " $edate = Read-Host "Example of Date "7/10/2015 08:00:00" " $msg = Read-Host "Type Internal and External Auto-Reply Message." Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity $user -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage $msg -ExternalMessage $msg |
Images when script is executed Very simple and straight forward script to quickly and easily set OOF messages. TechNet Script can be downloaded here :SetO365OOF #ThatLazyAdmin
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