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Find my Exchange 2010 version with the help of PowerShell

You have exchange running.  What’s this; Microsoft has released SP2.  Well what version am I running. The answer is simple to obtain with a quick little PowerShell fun you can have it in seconds. First you will need to run the Exchange Management Shell. Once you have this running you will issue the following command: […]

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Modify the number of simultaneous Remote/Local Move Request on Exchange 2010

By default Exchange 2010 just move 5 mailboxes simultaneously. To increase or decrees this it you have to change a configuration file for Mailbox Replication Service. Open the file C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV14BinMSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config; Increase the values to a number of simultaneous active moves that you want. These values are: MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB, MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB, MaxActiveMovesPerSourceServer, MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer, MaxTotalMovesPerMRS <!– Mailbox Replication […]

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SkyDrive for Windows and Mac

SkyDrive is back, and full integration in Windows and Mac SkyDrive for Windows is the easiest way to access your SkyDrive from your PC. When you install SkyDrive, a SkyDrive folder is created on your PC. Everything you put in this folder is automatically kept in sync between your computers (PC or Mac) and SkyDrive.com, […]

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Exchange 2010 Outlook AD photo import/export

To export a photo from AD use the following command: $a= Get-ADUser USERNAME -Properties thumbnailphoto $a.thumbnailphoto | Set-Content c:pathphoto.jpg -Encoding byte To search all users and export their attribute of jpegPhoto if you want to use them for thumbnailPhoto attribute, use the following script taken from here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar-SA/ITCG/thread/4a1c0537-493c-409f-8ed3-b0798ad9f768 $filter = ‘(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))’ $root= New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(“LDAP://RootDSE“) $searcher = New-Object […]

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Windows 7 Power Report

Do you have a laptop, are you running Windows 7, and most of all, does your battery seem like its running low faster than it should be?  If so perhaps running the following command from the command prompt will give you more information about what’s going on: powercfg -energy This will run for about 1 minute, more […]

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Move mailbox in Exchange 2010 fails

When I was moving a mailbox from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 I had mailbox moves which fail due to the “corrupt” limit being hit. errorMessage: Message (size 11.00 MB ) exceeds the maximum allowed size for submission to the target mailbox. You can increase this limit by using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange […]