There is a fantastic script on Kurtdepauw’s blog (http://kurtdepauw.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/dbbalancer-load-balance-your-exchange-mailbox-databases/) to assist in evenly balancing your Exchange 2007 databases so they are of similar size. I have customized it slightly and highlight the 2 lines below as useful modifications: Line 78 – added ‘| Where-Object {$_.Name -notlike “Archive Storage Group”}’ – this is very useful if [...]

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This PowerShell script queries the defined Exchange 2007 server and emails in HTML format the top 25 biggest mailboxes to the defined receipents. Simply create a scheduled task and you can have a automated weekly report: # Name: top25.ps1 # Purpose: Report on the 25 largest mailboxes on an Exchange server and email this report [...]

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To run a Exchange 2007 Powershell script as a scheduled task you need to call the Exchange Shell as part of the command eg: powershell -psconsolefile “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\bin\exshell.psc1″ -command “& ‘your script.ps1′ “

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Powershell and Exchange 2007 allow for setting user mailbox limits (including warning and send / receive restrictions) based on Active Directory Group Membership. For example, you can create a Powershell script that sets a 1GB mailbox limit for all users in the ‘Exchange Mailbox 1GB Storage Limit’ Active Directory Group.  Schedule this script to automatically [...]

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Whilst recently installing the Hub Transport role of Exchange 2007 SP1, the installation failed because it could not start the OpsMan server (it was disabled, another story). After enabling the service I went to reinstall the role and had the error shown below, indicated that I needed to perform the “BuildToBuildUpgrade” action. After checking out [...]

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