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Exchange 2010: Client Access Role Configuration Report

02/04/2012 / posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, IIS, Microsoft, Powershell, System Administration / No Comments

Ok, so I woke up and was wide awake at 4am this morning. I took it as a sign to lose my mind for a while and get to hacking another script. The result is a client access setting report script which includes all internal and external paths along with their authentication settings. It needs some prettying up and a bit of love but it does exactly what I’ve wanted in Exchange 2010, gives me an overall view of all client access settings (specifically related to IIS). Enjoy.

Get-Exchange2010CASURL.ps1 for reporting enjoyment

Exchange 2010 One-liner: Get All Network Interface Information

08/19/2011 / posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Networking, Powershell, System Administration / No Comments

Here are a few quick powershell one-liners to get all the network interface information in your exchange environment:

$ExchServers=(Get-ExchangeServer); @(foreach ($Srv in $ExchServers) {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=TRUE -ComputerName $Srv.Name | select @{Name="Server";Expression={$Srv.Name}},@{Name="DNS Host Name";Expression={$_.DNSHostName}},@{Name="Server Role";Expression={$Srv.ServerRole}},Description,@{Name="IP Address";Expression={$_.IPAddress}},@{Name="IP Subnet";Expression={$_.IPSubnet}},@{Name="Default Gateway";Expression={$_.DefaultIPGateway}},@{Name="Mac Address";Expression={$_.MacAddress}},@{Name="DNS Suffix Search Order";Expression={$_.DNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder}},@{Name="DNS Server Search Order";Expression={$_.DNSServerSearchOrder}},FullDNSRegistrationEnabled}) |Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation "C:\Temp\Exchange-network.csv"

If you just want interface information for Exchange 2010 servers:

$ExchServers=(Get-ExchangeServer | where {$_.ServerRole -ne "None"}); @(foreach ($Srv in $ExchServers) {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=TRUE -ComputerName $Srv.Name | select @{Name="Server";Expression={$Srv.Name}},@{Name="DNS Host Name";Expression={$_.DNSHostName}},@{Name="Server Role";Expression={$Srv.ServerRole}},Description,@{Name="IP Address";Expression={$_.IPAddress}},@{Name="IP Subnet";Expression={$_.IPSubnet}},@{Name="Default Gateway";Expression={$_.DefaultIPGateway}},@{Name="Mac Address";Expression={$_.MacAddress}},@{Name="DNS Suffix Search Order";Expression={$_.DNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder}},@{Name="DNS Server Search Order";Expression={$_.DNSServerSearchOrder}},FullDNSRegistrationEnabled}) |Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation "C:\Temp\Exchange2010-network.csv"

 

Exchange 2010: A Few More Migration Tips

08/13/2011 / posted in Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Powershell, System Administration / Comments Off

Here are a few more notes from the field to consider when you are planning your Exchange 2010 deployment and migration. Some of these items are good to know even after you have completed your migration and may help with overall system stability.

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Active Directory: Essential Tools

08/11/2011 / posted in Active Directory, Microsoft, Powershell, Security, System Administration / No Comments

During my many years of working with active directory I’ve used several tools. Here are some of the best that I’ve used which are not baked into windows. Good thing about this list is that most of these tools are fee! Another bonus is that most of the information gathering tools don’t require elevated rights as, by default, domain users have read-only access to active directory.

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Exchange 2010: Automated Firewall Rule Generation 1.4

07/29/2011 / posted in Exchange 2010, Networking, Powershell, Security, System Administration / No Comments

I made some updates to the automated firewall rule generation script. This includes some updates to the firewall rule spreadsheet to give information on setting setic ports and port ranges for RPC based services. This csv file may be a good general reference even without the script.

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Exchange 2010: Automated Firewall Rule Generation 1.2

07/20/2011 / posted in Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Networking, Powershell, Security, System Administration, Uncategorized / No Comments

I made a few changes to this script to make it more modular and to allow for more exceptions in regards to DAGs and sites. Enjoy!

Exchange 2010 Firewall Rule Generation Script

Exchange 2010: Automated Firewall Rule Generation

06/24/2011 / posted in Exchange, Microsoft, Networking, Powershell, Security, System Administration / No Comments

A single, or even a dual site Exchange 2010 deployment does not usually require too much internal firewall manipulation. But if you have to setup a Exchange 2010 environment where there are many global sites or a heavily segmented network, the number of firewall requests required to get a fully functioning configuration working can be daunting. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some of those firewall rules automatically generated for you?

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Exchange 2010: Protect VIP Mailboxes with Exclusive Scopes

05/04/2011 / posted in Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Powershell, Security, System Administration / No Comments

 

Prior to starting my new job I wanted to ensure that my previous employer was able to protect VIP mailboxes in their Exchange 2010 SP1 organization. I had to do this with exclusive scopes and these are the steps I had to follow. A general knowledge of role based security is assumed in this post.

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Outlook 2010: Photo Sizing Tool

02/01/2011 / posted in Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft, Powershell, System Administration / 1 Comment

We are about to get into full swing with our Exchange 2010 mailbox migrations and, soon afterwards, Office 2007 to 2010 upgrades as well. Unfortunately, we don’t have our Sharepoint farm upgraded to 2010 yet so there will be no automatic syncing of user photos into the GAL for those nice vanity pics which you can view in Outlook 2010. I know people like to be seen so I found a nice powershell based GUI for our (awesome) service desk team to use to upload these photos for users as requested. But you still have to get these photos thumbnailed to approximately 96×96 before uploading. Repeated manual labor is the anathema of any self respecting sysadmin who knows how to hack other people’s code to suit their needs. So I whipped up a very dirty (as in, “wow, get the bar of soap” dirty) hack which combines this person’s clever photo-sizing hack with the prior mentioned gui.
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Exchange – Notify Forwarded Accounts Script

01/10/2011 / posted in Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, Powershell, System Administration, Uncategorized / No Comments

In cleaning up a large number of disabled user accounts in AD I wanted a way to notify a large number of users specifically that they were being forwarded e-mail from another account. This was part of an effort to clean up AD a bit before moving everyone over to Exchange 2010 but it can be used independently of any one project as part of a general AD maintenance plan.

You can download the script here,  just rename to ps1 and run from a machine with exchange 2010 EMC installed.

notify-accounts-with-forwarders-generic

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