Author: jbmurphy
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PowerShell script to silently install RSAT 2008 R2 SP1
I often re-image my machine – that way I know my SCCM OSD is working properly and has the most recent “secondary apps” (Reader,Flash,FireFox . . .). Because I am always re-imaging, I like to automate installing the software I always need like Remote Server Administration Tools – RSAT. I wanted a function to install…
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PowerShell to set ACLs that prevent renaming of top-level directories in a share
We have a shared folder that is replicated to all our sites using the fantastic GlobalScape WAFS (@GlobalScape). This folder is huge. People go into the folder, and “type ahead” to get the subfolder they want, but what keeps happening (and I am sure you have seen this) is that when users click and try…
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PowerShell, Event Triggers, MailboxMoves and email notification
We are in the process of moving our Mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. I am using this script to automate the moves. I wanted to find a way to get an email notification when the move is complete. I figured I could keep the PowerShell script running in a “while loop” until Get-MailBoxMoveStatistics reports “Completed”,…
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PowerShell to assign Exchange 2010 Retention Policies based on AD group membership
In exchange 2003 we maintained a 6 month and 12 month purge policy that was applied based on group membership. I described that configuration here. I wanted to migrate our purge policies to the new 2010 Recipient policies. I needed to find the members of an AD group and assign a retention policy to their mailbox. Here is…
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Retention Policies in Exchange 2010
I have to say that retention policies in Exchange 2010 are a bit confusing. I understand that they are more powerful and it gives users more control in marking items that should not be purged. But, it is just easier in exchange 2003, you can select the folders you want and select “delete immediately”. For users created folders, you select…
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Scheduled PowerShell script to resume Mailbox Moves (New-MoveRequest)
Moving mailboxes from 2003 to 2010 is easy, but there is not a “Gui” to schedule it. So I created the following PowerShell script to find all the suspended MoveRequest(s) with the correct date, and resume them. MailboxMove.ps1: Next I create a scheduled task with the following command to run a script with the code…
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Force the Light Version of Exchange 2010 OWA on a Cisco ASA WebVPN with SSO
We have a Cisco ASA in front of our Exchange 2010 OWA application. We needed to create a “bookmark” to point to OWA. Since we are using Forms based authentication, we did not want users to have to re-login after just logging into the ASA. I found this link on how to setup the Bookmark…
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Fun with Toshiba IPT 2010 phones and NAT
We have a Toshiba phone system in our office. I don’t know much about it, because it is run by the very capable @mattsix, but today I jumped and did a little troubleshooting. The reoccurring issue we had, was that a remote phone would connect to the IPU, ring, but there would be no audio. We were…
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Just passed 70-662 : Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring
Next up: 70-663
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BASH script to email if WordPress plugins or themes need updating
This one took me all day. But I got it. I wanted to have a script that could look through all WordPress sites and find if there are outdated themes or plugins. All I need to do is slap it into a cron job and I am good to go! Here is the BASH code…