Sending an Smtp mail using power shell as been simplified using “Send-MailMessage” Cmdlet
Lets see how to do it !!
Send-MailMessage –From "administrator@careexchange.in" –To "User1@domain.com", "User2@careexchange.in" -Subject "Mail using Powershell !!" –Body "Body of my Power shell Email" -Priority High -SMTPserver "Exchange2010 Server FQDN"
Logging into User1 or User2
Received the below email
Mail Generated to User1 and User2 Successfully !
Understanding Search queries with special characters is always important.
Searching a Special character – Let say the Subject contains “How are you ?” you search “?”
Understanding Search of substrings is also important
Searching a Substring – Let say the Subject Contains “Testtrick1” you search “Trick1”
1.When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
1. When Outlook is in Online mode it uses the Exchange Search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Exchange 2003,2007,2010
For Example “Subject: Do you have 10$”
Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
Whole String 10$ Searches it
But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
2.When Outlook is in Cache mode it uses the Desktop Search otherwise called as Instant search
Searching a Special Character alone does not search in Outlook 2003,2007,2010
Instant Search will ignore this special characters as the index of Instant Search is word-based only
For the same example “Subject: Do you have 10$” having Outlook in Cache Mode
Searching for a Special Character “$” Does not give us appropriate Results
Whole String 10$ Searches it
But Searching for 0$ – Substring does not work
Some Examples – subject is “Exchange2010?” – Searching for “2010?” substring does not work
This how its designed to give out better search results instantly !!
In Some Scenarios , we end up in Turning of UAC , User account Control to get rid of Permission issues on the server.
Let see , How to do it.
Start – Control Panel – User accounts
User accounts
Change User Account Control Settings
Get this dragged to “Never Notify” – Which gets the UAC “User account Control” disabled
This requires a Reboot to get it applied on the user completely
Its not over . If you feel User account control still interrupts – Which might be managed via Local Policy on the computer
Start – Administrative Tools – Local Security Policy
Security Settings – Local Policies – Security Options
Check “User account Control : Admin Approval Mode is disabled
Verifying the above things. User account Control (UAC) – Does not interrupt or create permission issues on the server
Reference link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_S3
Regards
Lets say I want to Clear or modify or set a attribute in Active Directory for more objects in Bulk
ADModify is the best tool to do it , I would say
Let us see how to Add a Entry in a attribute
For Example – I may have to set or clear the value of this attribute “msExchQueryBaseDN” in Exchange 2010
Clearing for some users might be simple to do it , But in Bulk Admodify is one of the best tool to do it
Download Admodify
Extract in – Use it on a DC or Exchange Server
I prefer it on a DC
Run Admodify.exe
3 Tasks on this Page
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1. Choose “Domain Partition”
2. Choose “Domain Controllers List”
3. Uncheck “Show Containers only”
Choose the Whole OU or Specific Users
and Add to List
Now Choose “Select All”
You can choose any tab and Customize in Bulk
In our Case its – attribute “msExchQueryBaseDN”
Choose “Custom” tab
5 Tasks
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1. Have Checked “Make a customized attribute modification”
2. Entered the attribute Name – Where I need to modify
3. Attribute Value
4. Check “MultiValued Append”
— Why yo Choose “MultiValued Append”
If there is Entry already available – Where some attributes have multiple entries – It does not going to remove the Existing ones.
Instead adds an Extra entry to the same attribute
— Check or Uncheck – Depends on your situation –
By default you can check it Cause it won’t bring you harm if you happen to edit a attribute which has multiple values
5. Choose Go
It will add the Entries on all the Chosen objects
To Clear an Existing Attribute
5 Tasks
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1. Have Checked “Make a customized attribute modification”
2. Entered the attribute Name – Where I got to modify
3. Attribute Value “%Null%
4. Check “MultiValued Append”
5. Choose Go
It takes the Attribute to “Not Set”
Great !!
You learnt to Use Admodify Tool
As a Initial Process Please Follow
Cross Forest Migration Guide – Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2010
Lets see how to Move Mailboxes in Bulk in Cross forest scenario
Taking the Dump is always the same way , Whatever the version your migrating to
I have collected the my users in the same OU so that I can take the Dump easily
my OU (Organizational Unit) Name is “SourceUsers”
I need the Distinguish name of my OU (Organizational Unit)
View->Advance Features
Right Click – Properties of your OU (Organizational Unit) – Attribute Editor
Get the Value of “Distinguished Name”
In my case its “OU=SourceUsers,DC=CareExchange,DC=in”
Open Command prompt
Run
csvde -d “OU=SourceUsers,DC=CareExchange,DC=in” -f c:\SourceUserDump.csv -r (objectclass=user) –l mail
Now it Collected the 5 Mailboxes available
Now your Notepad will look like this
Remove the first Column – Use Excel or Use Notepad – Its up to you –
Note – First Line contains the title – Identity
Now it should look like below
To Verify Run Import-Csv “SourceUserdump.csv”
Now you can Import the CSV Pipe it to the Script as Below
Import-Csv “SourceUserdump.csv” | .\Prepare-MoveRequest.Ps1 -RemoteForestDomainController “FQDN of Source DC” -RemoteForestCredential $RemoteCredentials -LocalForestDomainController “FQDN of Target Forest DC” -LocalForestCredential $LocalCredentials -TargetMailUserOU “Distinguished name of OU in TargetForest” –UseLocalObject
If your doing for many objects , Its going to run fast and Errors won’t get saved
I would recommend to run Start-Transcript C:\MoveDump.txt
So that you have the right data in hand
To stop the Transcript – Stop-Transcript
Now you got your disable accounts Created
Now move the Users using ADMT migrating with SIDs
How to Migrate Users Across forest (Cross Forest) using ADMT 3.2 with sid and Passwords
Now accounts are activated with SID
Now Moving the mailbox using Remote Move
Import-Csv “SourceUserdump.csv” |New-MoveRequest –Remote –Remotehostname ‘sourceExchange.CareExchange.in’ -RemoteCredential $RemoteCredentials –TargetDeliverydomain ‘targetexchange.in
Now you won’t be able to logon on the new forest directly as you required to change password as first logon
To avoid that situation
see
How to Disable “User must change password at next logon” after cross forest move using ADMT 3.2
Great !!
you Learnt how to Move in Bulk in Cross forest Scenario
Regards
Satheshwaran Manoharan
Its always a problem on finding, What Roles the Current user is Assigned to, Not sure on what all he has having access to.
You can use the Below PowerShell Command to Find in which role assigments the user is part of in Exchange Role based acess groups.
Replace with “Username” with the Alias of the mailbox
Get-ManagementRoleAssignment -GetEffectiveUsers | Where-Object {$_.EffectiveUserName -eq "Username"} | select-object Role
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