Author Archives: mell9185

About mell9185

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

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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The 2013 Scripting Games, Beginner Event #3

Posted on July 18, 2013 by mell9185

Question Dr. Scripto has been fielding a lot of calls from the Help Desk lately. They’ve been asking him to look up information about the local hard drives in various servers—mainly size and free space information. He doesn’t mind helping, but … Continue reading →

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The 2013 Scripting Games, Beginner Event #2

Posted on July 4, 2013 by mell9185

Question Dr. Scripto finally has the budget to buy a few new virtualization host servers, but he needs to make some room in the data center to accommodate them. He thinks it makes sense to get rid of his lowest-powered old servers … Continue reading →

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The 2013 Scripting Games, Beginner Event #1 follow-up

Posted on June 30, 2013 by mell9185

It’s been a while since I blogged and i have the skeletons of multiple blogs post waiting to be edited. But now that I’ve settled into my new job and the scripting games have died down I can finally start … Continue reading →

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The 2013 Scripting Games, Beginner Event #1

Posted on April 30, 2013 by mell9185

Having participated in the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp I was excited to try out my scripting skills again in the 2013 Scripting Games. While my scripting skills have advanced a lot of over the past 6 months since I co-founded the … Continue reading →

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PowerShell script to find all Active Sync devices on an Exchange 2010 server that haven’t synced in a specified amount of time

Posted on February 17, 2013 by mell9185

I published my 1st Powershell script to Technet’s Script repository and Poshcode.org. You can grab it here and below are the details of the script straight from the help file: .SYNOPSIS Get-InactiveActiveSyncDevices pulls all user mailboxes with an Active Sync … Continue reading →

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Multiple Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010 and 2013

Posted on January 13, 2013 by mell9185

We have added a lot of new email domains at my company recently and one most common request from our users is to work with multiple Exchange mailboxes within Outlook 2010. This would normally be accomplished by giving the user full … Continue reading →

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Make sure your Exchange 2003 server is fully removed before raising your AD Domain Functional Level

Posted on December 5, 2012 by mell9185

Though we completed our Exchange 2010 migration over a year ago we still kept our Exchange 2003 server around due to some hard-coded references in internally developed apps. Once those were taken care of we shutdown our Exchange 2003 server for a … Continue reading →

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How to change and then resume a failed New-MailboxImportRequest In Exchange 2010

Posted on October 7, 2012 by mell9185

Recently I had to import a handful of PST files into a our Exchange 2010 server using the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet, and did so without setting the -baditemlimit parameter. During the import one of the files threw an error. Despite the discoverability … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 mailboxes inherit IMAP folder views and attributes if imported from a PST dump of an IMAP account

Posted on August 29, 2012 by mell9185

I recently had to migrate 9 IMAP accounts from GoDaddy to our Exchange 2010 server. Since GoDaddy does not offer export services and it was only 9 accounts we decided to use a handful of Outlook profiles to connect to … Continue reading →

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