Powershell - NianIT

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Export to PST using PowerShell

I recently had a need to export mailboxes to PST. This was done in an environment with Exchange 2010.This can easily be done with the following command in the Exchange Management Shell. New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox -FilePath \serverPSTIdentity.pst This is a bit inconvenient if you need to export more than a few mailboxes.I created the script below to accommodate my need and to be able to run it from another workstation.The only requirement is that you have access to the Exchange server and that you have the management tools installed for your version of Exchange. As soon as I can get around…

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March 27, 2015

Office 365 Set resource calendar permissions

Hi, As more and more of users move to the cloud the requirements for administrators change.Simply starting Powershell is no longer enough as the systems we want to configure and monitor are further away from us.Fortunately for us the step to connect to Office 365 is quite easy, as long as you know what to do.I have a script to connect using the cmdlets in step 1. The default settings for resource calendars in Office 365 is to show you busy/free information and nothing else. This can't be changed from the web-gui, but we can easily do it from Powershell.…

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January 28, 2015

Powershell

Join two variables together with powershell

Hi, Here I will explain two ways I've found to concatenate two variables to a path.I have at multiple occasions had the need to use two variables to form a single path based on input from the command line. This is an example on how to change location using two variables. This doesn't work. $Drive = "D:" $Directory = "Directory" Set-Location $Drive$Directory The reason this doesn't work is that Set-Location accepts $Drive as the entire path and considers $Directory to be a new command. There are two ways to solve this. The first was is to create a third variable…

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November 22, 2014

Powershell / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1

Disable “Open File – Security Warning” Message

I was building a powershell script that is supposed to update a software from a network share. The software is installed on a Windows 7 x64-bit machine and requires that a lot of updates are installed quickly and simply.The script itself works fine but for every .msp executed you get the message "Open File - Security Warning" prompting you to press Open.After researching a bit I learned that this is caused by the Internet Options treating the serverpath as an internet location. After changing the setting to "Enable (not secure)" I was able to run the script and install all…

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October 9, 2014

Powershell

Create folder and file for a new project using powershell

My objective is to create a folder with a desktop.ini that is used by my colleagues to store files for a project. Usually I create this manually on the correct file server and copy an existing desktop.ini which I edit and then set the attribute to System. I like to work with scripts and functions so I created the function below. function New-ProjectFolder { [CmdletBinding()] param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)] [string[] ]$ProjectNr, [Parameter()] [string[] ]$Description ) BEGIN{} PROCESS{ Write-Verbose "Creating PSDrive PRoot" New-PSDrive -Name PRoot -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \servernameshare | Out-Null Write-Verbose "Creating Project folder $ProjectNr" New-Item -Path PRoot:$ProjectNr -ItemType directory -Force | Out-Null Write-Verbose…

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October 6, 2014