After my last round of mailbox migrations from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 RU2 I ran into issues with a few mailboxes that were left in the state “FailedOther” at 95% completed. I attempted to resume / restart the mailbox move with: Get-MoveRequest | where{$_.Status -eq “FailedOther”} | Resume-MoveRequest without success. At this point I was […]
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A cmdlet (pronounced “command-let”) is a lightweight Windows PowerShell script that performs a single function. A cmdlet, which is expressed as a verb-noun pair, has a .ps1 extension. Windows PowerShell has over two hundred basic core cmdlets and had been extended to 1000’s due to administrators writing their own. Each cmdlet will have a help […]
Dear Jermal, here is some info that you may find useful in the future. I hope that you share with your friends, coworkers and the readers of your blog. From time to time I have found myself having to reset the computer account of a workstation that was left offline. In most cases this workstation […]
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wow.dll Virus / Trojan
Hmmm; Now isn’t this fun Our IDS was tossing out the following message: ET TROJAN Tornado Pack Binary Request for one of the users, along with various others. After some inspection; first running the local AV solution, and other solutions like Malwarebytes which did not locate the infection. I then loaded up Sysinternals Suite App, TCPView which […]
Exchange 2013 has new and impressive administration center that allows you to handle tasks such as mailbox moves. I prefer using the Exchange Management Shell for such a task. Using the following command you can move all mailboxes within a database to your new mailbox database: Get-Mailbox -Database “Source-Database” | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase “Destination-Database” To get info […]
After some weekend Exchange mailbox migrations I wanted to check the status of mailboxes. This is where I use the Get-MoveRequestStatistics for the all mailboxes or database. Issuing the following command: Get-MoveRequestStatistics -MoveRequestQueue “*databasename*” will return to you the status of all the mailboxes on that data store. This is good; but what if you […]