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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use the SQL Server Mini-Shell Version of Windows PowerShell?

May 28, 2009 May 28, 2009 05/28/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! One thing I do not understand is why the SQL Server team wrote its own version of Windows PowerShell. I thought Windows PowerShell was supposed to standardize things. But the SQL Server team has one version of Windows PowerShell, the Exchange team has another, and then of course there is the Windows PowerShell ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) Records and Have a Text File Generated to Show What Was Created?

February 24, 2009 Feb 24, 2009 02/24/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We are adding some new Exchange Servers to our messaging infrastructure, and I want to create some new MX (Mail Exchanger) records in DNS. I do not want to to create these records manually because carpal tunnel is not my friend and manual creation tends to introduce errors. I like having a text file that shows ...

How Can I Add an Email Address to the proxyAddresses Attribute?

May 10, 2005 May 10, 2005 05/10/05
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add an email address to the proxyAddresses attribute without overwriting all the existing attributes?-- DH(image) (image) (image) Hey, DH. For those of you who aren’t too familiar with the proxyAddresses attribute (and, alas, that includes the Scripting Guys) proxyAddresses is an attribute added to ...

How Can I Get a List of Exchange Servers Assigned to My Users?

September 24, 2004 Sep 24, 2004 09/24/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I get a list of the Exchange servers (msExchHomeServerName) assigned to the users in an OU?-- BG(image) (image) (image) Hey, BG. As you probably already figured out, you have two issues: you need to get a list of all the users in an OU, and then you need to figure out which Exchange server they’ve been ...