Field notes
Practical notes on cloud infrastructure, automation, and learning by doing.
In order to get a list of all (or part) of the mailboxes and view their sizes, simply use the following PS script: Get-mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize, Database -auto | Out-File c:\mbx_sizes.txt The above command, will get all the mailboxes, and list their sizes and the database […]
Hi, so I had an implementation for Lync 2013, consist of an FE and Edge server, of course the front-end went smooth and was ready in no time, but I had an annoying problem on the Edge after I installed it, that kept me busy for 2 days, until I found out what was going […]
Due to some real life pressure (some are related to my current work) I was driven away from the blog… until the hosting has expired and I lost everything was on it… Now I’m trying to recover the first blog contents depending on old archives from it on the web, such as (http://web.archive.org/)… thanks to […]
One migration I did, the customer was using ISA server 2006, the customer did not like ISA and wanted to get rid of it, despite my opposite opinion of ISA as a good and perfect firewall/proxy solution, I helped the customer or at least tried to move him into a MikroTik router that was installed […]
Sometimes you get a sudden need to forward bulk users’ mail to external destination… in normal days, you would create a mail contact, then forward the selected user’s mail to the new external contact. Now what if you got a large number of contacts to forward? well, you can either: Manually create all the required […]
Below is a useful script to create bulk contacts in Exchange Management Shell: Import-CSV “C:\NameList.csv” | Foreach{New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalAddress} You need to have the following prepared before you use the script: A CSV file contains 2 headers: Name, ExternalAddress, with all the contacts list that you want to create. Save the CSV file […]
I’ve done some migrations recently from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps… While the migration itself went successful, I came across many serious issues that affected the overall satisfaction of the customer… I tried my best to solve and workaround those issues during the migration process, and it seems everything went well after what I did… […]
Hi It has been a while since I did a transition for Exchange server 2010, and last days I did one… Today I was doing the final part of it which is decommissioning the old server, I did it but I had to do some extra work to finish the job… I had moved all […]
Hello Everybody, I have got through a problem where MS Outlook continuously asks for user name and password to authenticate the user for exchange… This could be annoying for users and frustrating for the guys who are troubleshooting that, today I made some researches about problem and I got some solutions for it, but all […]
