Category Archives: PowerShell

PowerShell: Move Windows Server 2008 Cluster Group

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Nerd

Where I work, we were a little behind finally getting to Windows Server 2008 R2.  Our Exchange Servers were running on Server 2003 R2 until recently.  Windows clustering is quite different on 2k8 vs. 2k3.  I wrote this function to … Continue reading →

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PowerShell: Get-Uptime for Computer(s)

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Nerd

I needed to check the server uptime for multiple servers, and well, I wanted to do it in PowerShell.  I found a sample from MSDN, and modified it, and threw it into a function. Here’s an alternative to this function … Continue reading →

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PowerShell: Drive Space Info from multiple systems

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Nerd

With PowerShell 2 came Powershell remoting and jobs, both of which are REALLY cool!  I’m going to show you two ways to get drive space info from multiple systems, first with a normal foreach loop, and then with remoting (which … Continue reading →

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PowerShell: Change PS Window Size on the fly

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Nerd

First, my apologies for not posting ANYTHING to EverydayNerd since April 25, but hey, this is just for fun, and I DO have a day job I am going to be posting a LOT of PowerShell stuff here, as it … Continue reading →

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Exchange PowerShell Script: Get Mailbox Count by Database

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Nerd

  Here’s a PowerShell script that does a quick count of mailboxes on each database of a server, or all servers – depending if you specify the server name as a script parameter. ** Updated:  I made some improvements to … Continue reading →

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Script: Get time of Exchange last online defrag

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Nerd

digging through the Application log can be a real pain sometimes.  Last night, I was asked by a Microsoft Engineer to give me the last online defrag of a server that we had a case opened on.  So, instead of … Continue reading →

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Powershell Script: Display Exchange 2007 Queue by Site

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Nerd

Working in a multi site Exchange 2007 environment can be cumbersome when trying to view queue information on the Hub servers.  I wrote this script to simplify this process. The script queries the Exchange 2007 organization, finds the servers with … Continue reading →

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