If you’re looking for a Global Address List synchronisation solution for Exchange that simply uses Powershell, look no further than this excellent script from fellow MVP Carol Wapshere. http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis/a-galsync-powershell-script The script doesn’t leverage the DirSync control (and hence doesn’t use deltas), which means that it isn’t perhaps as efficient as some of the full-blown solutions… Read More »
I was recently involved in a task to consolidate an OU structure. Part of this involved moving user objects from one OU to another and re-linking GPOs that were linked to the old OU to the new OU. There were a large number of links and I didn’t fancy adding them manually, so I spent… Read More »
If you’re creating contact objects in Active Directory the Exchange cmdlets New-MailContact, Set-MailContact and Set-Contact are usually sufficient. On the other hand I haven’t found a way using these cmdlets to set all the attributes that I might need. For example, the “description” attribute doesn’t appear to feature anywhere. Things have obviously changed with the… Read More »
Or at least it nearly did. I was working a script and because of a small typo very nearly lost most of the data on my C: drive. It’s very easy to get wrong, so treat this as a cautionary tale. The example below shows the error I made and the potential impact. I’ve used… Read More »