Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010

For example, the script below will output the size of the Exchange Databases to a file and can be run as a scheduled task:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010

Get-MailboxDatabase –Status | fl name, databasesize | out-file C:\dbsize.txt

What we can do then is save the above script to a .ps1 file and then edit the action to start PowerShell.exe and put the arguments as the script that you want to run:

This can be set up with the usual Scheduled Task settings and with the PowerShell snap-in for Exchange added in should be able to use the Exchange PowerShell commands.

Cheers

Paul

The CSV file had the following headings:

After saving it to a location we ran the following PowerShell script that created the users:

import-module activedirectory
$inputFile = Import-CSV  C:\usersToBeCreated.csv

foreach($line in $inputFile)
{
new-aduser -SamAccountName $line.UserName -Name $line.FullName -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "Password" -Force) -Enabled $true -Path "OU=Domain Users,DC=TEST,dc=LOCAL" -DisplayName $line.FullName -GivenName $line.FirstName -Surname $line.SurName -UserPrincipalName $line.UserPrincipalName -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True
}

You can copy and paste the script above where you will only need to change the bold text which is the CSV location, the temporary password for the new users and the OU that you want to put the users into.

As long as you use the same headings in your CSV file then this should work ok. You can, of course add in more details that are accepted by the new-aduser command which are outlined in the URL below:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617253.aspx

Cheers

Paul

(gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName ComputerName -cred (get-credential)).Win32Shutdown(6)

In PowerShell run the following command (Change location to wherever you would like)

Start-Transcript c:\Powershell.txt –Append

Now use PowerShell as you usually would, once you have finished with PowerShell run the following command “Stop-Transcript”

If you now open the “PowerShell.txt” you will see everything you have just done in your PowerShell session.

**********************
**********************
Windows PowerShell Transcript Start
Start time: 20110810173323
Username  : Test
Machine      : Test (Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7600.0)
**********************
Transcript started, output file is c:\MySession.txt
[PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox –Identity Dan

Name                     Alias                ServerName
—-                         —–                 ———-
Dan                        Dan                  Test

[PS] C:\>Get-User -Identity risual

Name               RecipientType
—-                   ————-
Dan                  UserMailbox

[PS] C:\>Stop-Transcript

(gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName ComputerName -cred (get-credential)).Win32Shutdown(5)

Get-MailboxDatabase –Status | fl name, databasesize

It should output something similar to this:

You can simply copy and paste the above command into an Exchange 2010 PowerShell window and run. Hope this helps.

Paul

To Enable a particular service run the following command. (Please Edit ServiceName to the desired service)

Set-Service ServiceName -StartupType Automatic

To Disable a particular service run the following command.

Set-Service ServiceName -StartupType Disabled

To Stop a particular service run the following command.

Stop-Service ServiceName

To Start a particular service run the following command.

Start-Service ServiceName

You can also combine the commands in a ps1 file , for example if you want to Disable and Stop a Service you would run the following.

“Set-Service ServiceName -StartupType Disabled
Stop-Service ServiceName”

“(gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName ComputerName -cred (get-credential)).Win32Shutdown(4)”

This will log every user off the machine specified above.

First make sure you enable remote script execution on your Local and Remote machine by running the following in PowerShell.

Enable-PSRemoting –force

Now place the PowerShell script you want to execute on a location on your local machine.

Now we can run the following PowerShell command to execute the script on the remote machine (Edit the below highlighted in red to match the remote machine name and the PowerShell file location)

Invoke-Command -ComputerName machinename -FilePath C:\FileLocation\filename.ps1

This can easily be done using the following command.

Get-MailboxPermission –Identity “UserName” | fl user, accessrights

This gives an output like below.

If you would like to see permissions for every users mailbox run the following command

Get-MailboxPermission -Identity * | fl user, accessrights , identity > C:\Perms.txt
(You can change the file location to wherever you would like)

The list of the Users and Permissions will all be in the Perms.txt file.