Microsoft updated the Exchange Server Antivirus exclusions list with a couple of changes. They removed 2 processes and 2 folder paths from the exclusion list. So it's important that you remove these 4 exclusions in total from your Exchange Server.…
Every user in Active Directory will have remote PowerShell enabled by default. For security reasons, it's strongly recommended to disable remote PowerShell access for non-admins and service accounts in the organization. In this article, you will learn how to disable…
You sometimes want to check which user accounts are disabled in Active Directory. Unfortunately, the Active Directory Users and Computers console is not that great when you want to export specific values. For example, you want to get all disabled…
How to export inactive AD users to CSV file? Sometimes you want to know which user account is inactive so you can block the account or see what's happening. You can use the Active Directory Users and Computers console to…
How to test that the Exchange Server exclusions are correctly excluded from the Antivirus? We already showed how to run a PowerShell script and get the Antivirus exclusions for Exchange Server 2013/2016/2019. The script runs on the Exchange Servers, and…
Set-MailboxFolderPermission is an excellent cmdlet to set calendar access rights with PowerShell. We can use that on the Exchange on-premises organization or Exchange Online organization. After we run the Set-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet, the error shows that there is no existing permission…
We need to export a mailbox to PST file. The problem is that we are getting an error after running the New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet. The term 'New-MailboxExportRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable…
How to combine PowerShell with a scheduled task to change Users UPN automatically? Why do we want to change Users UPN automatically? First, I always say that if you can automate the process, you should do it. Second, all the…
How to enable the Windows Firewall with PowerShell in Windows Server 2012/2016/2019? I recommend turning on the Windows Firewall with PowerShell. But if you have a test lab and you want to keep it disabled for testing, go ahead. Don't…
When doing an authoritative restore in Active Directory, we need to run the command DFSRDIAG POLLAD. This will force a DFSR server to check with Active Directory (AD) for configuration/replication changes. We can run the command in Command Prompt or…