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PowerShell: Thoughts on Module Design

I’ve finally decided to grow up and start making modules out of my rather large PowerShell code base. Here are a few things I’ve learned.

Powershell: Login As Batch Job Security Rights

2015-07-18 1 min read Microsoft Powershell Security System Administration Zachary Loeber

Here is a quick bit of PowerShell. It is some snippets of C# code wrapped up with PowerShell which will allow you to assign accounts to the ‘login as batch job’ local security rights of a local machine. The code is no great shakes but it is a good example of how you might take some existing online code and modify to suit your needs in PowerShell. This function also compliments another script I’ve released in the past for automatically scheduling PowerShell scheduled tasks rather well. Continue reading

Exchange: Database Leveling Redux

2015-04-07 5 min read Exchange Exchange 2010 Exchange 2013 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

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.

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