Month: July 2019

Need to show time in UTC (Universal Time)? There is a 'method' with the Get-Date cmdlet. If you run: Get-Date | Get-Member You'll find that one of the methods is ToUniversalTime() which allows you to output the time of the local machine, converted to the UTC time. Run the code below to show how the

This little function is interesting, it will display the bit version of the Outlook client on a machine. I got this from an internal discussion, that someone needed to get an answer for a customer. I grabbed the code, functioned it up, and here it is. Now, my first thought is, why does it matter?

One issue Exchange engineers run into from time to time, is the need to restart IIS (Internet Information Services). Here is a simple way to restart IIS on all Exchange servers in the organization: Restart-ExchangeIIS I’ve considered scoping this to say just a few servers, but then, that’s easy to remote into a machine and

Added this to the MO_Module to remote in and restart just the IIS service on a single computer or a list of computers. Easy enough to do without a function, but I added some logic and Write-Verbose information to help the person running the command to see the content easier and quick. This will restart

The world is always changing and the password expiring value is one that recently was updated. Microsoft has updated the stance around expiring passwords: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/secguide/2019/05/23/security-baseline-final-for-windows-10-v1903-and-windows-server-v1903/ The short answer is, only the expiring portion of the password policy is being discussed. You way want to still expire passwords, but with technologies like Windows Hello, the world

This Connect-ExchangeServer function runs the PowerShell code to log into an Exchange server on premises using remote PowerShell. Using the -Computer parameter (required), tells the function which Exchange server to connect to. Using the -Prefix parameter (optional), allows a modification to the noun of the imported cmdlets, so that you can have multiple connections in

Here are some handy short links that help Exchange Server engineers keep up with what's happening within the Exchange world. As always, it's best to have some kind of RSS feed notification, using tools such as: Microsoft Flow or IFTTT.com. The Exchange Team blog, you Had Me at EHLO: aka.ms/ehlo Exchange Server build numbers and

The Get-DotNETVersion function presents the current .NET version on a machine. This is part of the MO_Module PowerShell code that helps administrators in their daily tasks. From an Exchange Server perspective, .NET support is very sensitive to which version of Exchange and which .NET is allowed to be used. This value also changes based on

What? Why are we talking about buying a car? I was at lunch the other day with some engineers and we got to talking about new cars. I’d mentioned how I had not done a lot of due diligence in the past and planned to make that change next time. Since I have to rent

I’d like to introduce you to my MO_Module. It’s a PowerShell module, combining several daily administrative tasks into simple Verb-Noun Functions for engineers to perform their jobs easier. I was developing/maintaining several different PS modules, which became more work, so I thought I’d just combine everything into one single place. Since my primary technologies are