Exchange 2013

Exchange: Database Leveling Redux

Some time ago I tackled the challenge of constructing a variant of the bin packing algorithm for leveling out Exchange databases’ size with the least amount of mailbox migrations necessary. Since then, I’ve been approached by a few people in dreadfully large environments looking for help with errors and compatibility issues around the script I released. I’ve finally rounded back to this script to do it some justice.

Powershell: Check For Misplaced Certificates

2014-12-11 1 min read Exchange 2013 Lync Microsoft Powershell Security System Administration Zachary Loeber

Here is a script I absentmindedly put together one evening while power watching a TV series on Netflix with the wife. The general idea of this script is to check local machine, trusted root, and intermediate trusted root stores for misplaced or duplicate certificates.

Exchange 2013: Server Component State Script

2014-12-09 2 min read Active Directory Exchange 2013 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Exchange 2013 includes some powershell commands which allow you to set and view several components in the messaging infrastructure. This is important to be aware of as it means all Exchange related services can be running when looking at them in service manager (services.msc) but not actually doing anything. I went ahead put together a script to better gather this information for administrators.

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