Microsoft's Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have experience working with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of PowerShell version 2. The study Read More

While working with (playing around with) PowerShell on Exchange 2007 I found myself typing in the same series of commands over and over. These were commands that I was using on a regular, repeated basis while managing my particular environment. Being Read More

One of the more common requests we hear is that customers want a way to export the configuration settings for their Client Access servers. One reason for this is due to the unique way in which a Client Access server stores configuration settings and data. Read More

If you've spent any time in the PowerShell, then you're probably familiar with get-command (gcm). Here's an example I threw together taking that to the next level. This will help you when you can't remember the command you want to use. Say you want to Read More

One of the strengths of Windows PowerShell scripting is the ability to leverage both .NET and COM objects. Scripting with System.DirectoryServices is now possible, the main purpose of this blog post is to provide a sample script used to bulk modify Active Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 10/15/2007 to incorporate feedback we received since original posting. So my last post demonstrated a script that used a .net method and some functions within the script to take care of a problem that was a little Read More

For those who wish to script the migration from Lotus Domino to Exchange 2007, PowerShell can be extremely helpful. I wrote the below script for a few customers who wanted more extensive control over their migration, this script can be easily tweaked Read More

One of the things that I have liked the most about the move to Exchange 2007 is the introduction of PowerShell into the management of Exchange. PowerShell is a very powerful tool that the Exchange administrator now has in their arsenal. Many regular, Read More

The Exchange 2007 scripting contest has concluded and a winner has been selected. Congratulations to Nick Smith of Colorado State University on his winning entry: "Return the smallest database"! Description: Locates the smallest mailbox database (in Read More

Mihai Jalobeanu and Vivek Sharma have blogged about the Exchange 2007 PowerShell Scriptacular demo pack. Some really cool scripts in there: addfakeservers.ps1 and removefakeservers.ps1 NOT standalone. Makes it looks like your demo setup has more than Read More

In the display of true geekness, Satish Mathew and Marcel Ortiz have created a PowerShell script that will play Jingle Bells on your computer speaker. No longer will your machines have to sit in silence! You can run this on any computer that has Read More

In this video, Vivek Sharma (Program Manager) and Mihai Jalobeanu (Software Dev Engineer) show several aspects of Exchange Management Shell in action. This was a part of their Interview that we posted here.   This video is about 10 minutes long, Read More

This is an (almost 23 minutes long) interview with Vivek Sharma (Program Manager) and Mihai Jalobeanu (Software Dev Engineer) from Exchange System Management team, talk about Exchange Management Shell (aka Monad). There will be a follow-up video Read More

With Exchange Management Shell available in Exchange Server 2007, you can now do almost every single admin task with an interactive command line (in addition to the traditional GUI) - you can use it to quickly check settings, create reports, check the Read More