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About mell9185

IT proffesional. Tech, video game, anime, and punk aficionado.

Using script blocks within doubled quoted strings in PowerShell

Posted on January 16, 2017 by mell9185

While working on a script to convert an XML export of a new chat application to EML files for ingestion into my company’s compliance system (A task I’ve been doing a lot of over the past year or so), I … Continue reading →

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Creating an array of arrays in powershell

Posted on October 13, 2016 by mell9185

Recently I had a need to convert a series of messages from one of my company’s Slack instances into EML files so they could be ingested into our compliance system. In the process of parsing the export file via PowerShell, … Continue reading →

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The various picture resolutions supported by Exchange 2013 mailboxes

Posted on April 24, 2016 by mell9185

In researching what picture resolutions are supported by Exchange (and Lync 2013/Skype for business) I came across this MS Technet article stating the the following 3 resolutions used in Lync: 48 x 48 : Used if no higher resolution image is selected … Continue reading →

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Display Names on mail enabled public folders in Exchange 2013

Posted on April 17, 2016 by mell9185

Fun fact, you can have a different display for the same public folder if it’s mail enabled [PS] Get-PublicFolder "\Market Data Services\MDS Bills" | Select Identity, Name | Ft -AutoSize Identity                        Name ——–                        —- \Market Data Services\MDS Bills MDS Bills[PS] … Continue reading →

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I took my Exchange 2013 environment down doing a CU11 prerequisite check

Posted on April 9, 2016 by mell9185

In preparing for my company’s Exchange 2013 CU8 to CU11 uprage a few weekends ago I decided during my lunch break to the run the CU11 installer through the prerequisite check on all our servers just to make sure nothing … Continue reading →

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Dealing with User Photos in Exchange 2010 and 2013

Posted on March 19, 2016 by mell9185

I recently update my teams internal documentation for how Photos are handled in Excahnge 2013 and figure it might be helpful to others, enjoy!   Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010 Outlook 2010/Exchange 2010 pulls from the AD attribute thumbnailPhoto. This … Continue reading →

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Using SHA512 SSL certs with Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 breaks TLS at lower OS rollup levels

Posted on March 12, 2016 by mell9185

We use and internal certificates in my company for Exchange 2013 and recently we employed a company wide mandate to move all internal SSL certificates from SHA1 to SHA512. Our current company patching policy is to apply security patches and … Continue reading →

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Email messages with a blank X-OriginatorOrg header will repeatedly crash the FrontEndTransport Service in EX2013 CU8+

Posted on December 27, 2015 by mell9185

My company recently ran into this issue 2 weeks ago and confirmed with MS that it affects Exchange 2013 CU8, CU9, and CU10 (Exchange 2016 is fine). Basically any message that contains an X-OriginatorOrg header with a null or just … Continue reading →

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PowerShell script to download attachments from an email

Posted on October 29, 2013 by mell9185

Recently I was asked to automate the process of grabbing an email from a mailbox and downloading all the attachments to a specified destination. The following script accomplishes this using the Exchange Managed Webservices API. A few notes about this … Continue reading →

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Powershell script to sync select details of calendar entries from one calendar to another

Posted on October 9, 2013 by mell9185

Recently at work I received a request to sync the calendar of one of our employee’s to the iPhone of a person external to the company. After much deliberation between all of our internal IT teams we decided on the … Continue reading →

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