Category Archives: Exchange 2010

Sending an email with X-Headers in EWS via powershell

Posted on December 23, 2018 by mell9185

I recently needed to test sending an email via EWS with a bunch of custom X-headers. While I have worked with EWS in PowerShell before I couldn’t find any examples of how to do so but found plenty in Java … 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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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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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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How to quickly disable account access in AD and Exchange 2010

Posted on May 19, 2012 by mell9185

While testing the feasibility of a Bring Your Own Device policy with Exchange 2010 Active Sync we noticed some odd behavior with disabled accounts. One of the policies we decided on was that during an employee termination we would disable … Continue reading →

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