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Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Simplify a Large-scale Exchange Migration

November 20, 2010 Nov 20, 2010 11/20/10
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  Summary: See how to use Windows PowerShell to simplify a large-scale Microsoft Exchange server migration project.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today I am turning the keyboard over to Phil Braniff, one of my former Windows PowerShell workshop attendees, as he talks about a large Microsoft Exchange migration. Take it ...

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 Attach a File to an Email Sent Using CDO?

November 29, 2004 Nov 29, 2004 11/29/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I understand how to use CDO to send an email, but how do I include an attachment with that email?-- RT(image) (image) (image) Hey, RT. And, incidentally, thanks for this question. At least one of the Scripting Guys spent most of his Thanksgiving weekend eating and, on the rare occasions when he wasn’t eating, ...

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 ...