This script uses WMI and Active Directory queries to return information about mailbox sizes from Exchange and the limits set in Active Directory.
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A number of people have been looking for Get-MailboxStatistics for Exchange 2003. I have a PowerShell version of this script for exactly that reason here.
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A script to read the mailbox security descriptor from Active Directory with the intention of finding a particular user or security principal. It will not display the security descriptor, it simply displays whether or not the account is present in the access control list.
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The VbScript below demonstrates how subnet information might be retrieved from Active Directory. It is possible to use a search using to return this information (for objectClass=subnet). This method connects to the subnets container and loops through the contents returning the network address and mask length in a Dictionary object.
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Using WMI it is possible to modify any existing record hosted on a Microsoft DNS Server. The method used varies slightly depending on which record type we want to change.
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One of the most common problems with outbound mail is configuration of the SMTP service name and DNS records. This post briefly covers the requirements for running a public SMTP service, it does not matter if that server is Exchange, or Sendmail, or PostFix, the same set of rules apply.
The outbound rules do not apply when using a Smart Host to send mail. The inbound rules do not apply if receiving mail through a third-party (such as an anti-spam service).
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Taking advantage of the fact that DNS will always respond with an authoritative answer if it has one allows exceptions for single hosts. In essence, using DNS as a centralised hosts file.
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This VbScript searches the current domain for all users with “User cannot change password”, “Password never expires”, or “Trusted for delegation” set, the results of the search are written to a tab delimited text file.
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This script uses WMI to enumerate each access control entry in an NTFS access control list, looking for explicit entries, that is, entries that are not inherited.
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I wrote this script quite a few years ago to reduce the size of IIS log files by removing log entries for trivial requests (based on file extension for the request).
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A short script to list explicit rights assigned to a directory structure. It uses the recursive option of ls (an Alias for Get-ChildItem) to drop down through the directory structure.
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