Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query “Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem”| sort-object elementname | ForEach-Object {$vm = $_.Elementname
write-host $vm
filter Import-CimXml
{
    $CimXml = [Xml]$_
    $CimObj = New-Object -TypeName System.Object
    foreach ($CimProperty in $CimXml.SelectNodes(“/INSTANCE/PROPERTY”))
    {
if ($CimProperty.Name -eq “Name” -or $CimProperty.Name -eq “Data”)
{

         $CimObj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $CimProperty.NAME -Value $CimProperty.VALUE

}
    }
    $CimObj
}
$VmObj = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query “Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem Where ElementName=’$vm’”
$KvpObj = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -Query “Associators of {$VmObj} Where AssocClass=Msvm_SystemDevice ResultClass=Msvm_KvpExchangeComponent”
$KvpObj.GuestIntrinsicExchangeItems | Import-CimXml
} | where {$_.NAME -match “NetworkAddressIPv4″} | ft
read-host

So… Copy paste this script to an text file and save it as getip.ps1 and run it using powershell – it does need any other modules you should only run it on Windows Server where you have Hyper-V role installed… (I do not remember but I think you should enable execution policy for ps1 scripts… If you have truble executing your ps1 check here…)

By the way… This script has an error first virtual machine name will not fit in table (I do not know why ) and you will get an error when this script will try to analyze your Hyper-V host machine… I do not know how to solve this two errors if someone out there solves it please provide feedback. Thank you!

Go to Windows SBS console and create a security group – that shuld be universal (by default) for example: Mailbox management

Add administrator / admin account to the group

Then you need to enable “import / export” feature on members of this group. To do that you need to open Exchange Management Shell (Powershell with Exchange 2010 modules) as administrator and write:

New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name “Import Export Mailbox Admins” -SecurityGroup “Mailbox management” -Role “Mailbox Import Export”

After that you can folow my article to import or export mailboxes…

You first need to add permissions to a group in which you put administrator to be able to use import / export features. You can read about that in this article.

Useful comdlets are:

Importing pst to existing mailbox:

New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath \\oldserver\share\user1.pst -Mailbox user1

To check status of your import type:

Get-MailboxImportRequest | Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics

If import fails you can try with option:

New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath \\oldserver\share\user1.pst -Mailbox user1 -BadItemLimit 10

What it does? Saso (tnx man!) explained to me, that it might happen when you have used some antivirus solution that has “corrupted” some e-mails… So try with BadItemLimit 10 probably we are talking about one or two e-mails with problems.

If you want to remove old importrequest you can use:

Remove-MailboxImportRequest -Identity username\MailboxImport or MailboxImport1 or 2…If you want to look at just a signle mailbox import progress you can use modified cmdlet:

Get-MailboxImportRequest -Identity username\mailboximport | Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics

At the end you will have alot of Completed malilboximport’s… If you want to cleane up your exchange you can run:

Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxImportRequest

Happy importing!

You can rename your connectors however you want by using Exchange management console but you will lose functionality of TLS in SMTP traffic – becouse the certificate remote.company.com does not match fqdn or smtp greeting of a connector that advertise mail.company.com. You will also get an error in Event log saying:

Microsoft Exchange could not find a certificate that contains the domain name mail.company.com in the personal store on the local computer…

 Ok, what can we do now?

Well turn on Exchange Management Shell – that is Powershell with modules for Exchange 2007 management – you can find it in star menu… And first of all we want to see current Exchange certificates that are enabled for Exchange services by using cmdlet:

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Get-ExchangeCertificate 

and you wil receive something like this:

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Get-ExchangeCertificate 

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>

Thumbprint                                Services   Subject
———-                                ——–   ——-
59D62E7850EE4093AFF1EC73E2623D52058C2B35  ….S      CN=mail.company.com
45EEEB44DF4BFE2EB1B7A7592EA1DF5BF93F44B4  IP.WS      CN=remote.company.com

42F146B12BEF918A6A8FC730F5AA87AC4ACB1CEB  IP..S      CN=remote.company.com

817F1311CB72FB70F962EC0FAD2D8FA857F114A4  ….S      CN=sbssrv01.company.local
4BAAC7906689AFF0129767CF492AAE058B5DF494  ….S      CN=Sites
8F1D9C5FEB6EF0C39F25175AFBDEA54FE9668EF9  …..      CN=xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx01-CA
8E4F33523325500F38ECF41FCDFBBE684AFC6145  …..      CN=WMSvc-WIN-K7KGUV5MQ40

We can now see that SMTP connectors are using all certificates (S defnies SMTP service).

Ok… How can you test that TLS works?

You can try it by using telnet client and connect to your server:

telnet mail.company.com 25

 

Exchange should respond something like:

220 mail.company.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:
12:09 +0100

 

then you can write:

helo test.blablabla.com

 

220 mail.company.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:
13:07 +0100
helo test.blablabla.si
250 mail.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.si Hello [xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx]

after that enter command:

starttls

 

server should respond:

220 2.0.0 SMTP server ready

 

Server ready? Super!

 

PS.

If you did miss something you will receive error from server saying:

 

starttls
500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command

 

If you get that? Read this tutorial again

PS. PS. You do not need to restart anything when you apply this commands… No need for restarting Exchange services…

Special thanks to Saso Erdeljanov for some hints about this issue…

Ok in example 2 we have two servers:
DEMOAD.demo.local – active directory server
and
DEMORDSSRV01.demo.local – member server (in fact remote desktop server but it is not an important info… )

Let say that we will be connected to DEMOAD.demo.local and we will prepare a script and schedule it to get information from DEMORDSSRV01.demo.local

1. First we need to enable Powershell remoting on DEMORDSSRV01.demo.local using Powershell cmdlet:

Enable-PSRemoting

2. We need to test if remoting works so we can test it by using cmdlet:

Test-WSMan -ComputerName DEMORDSSRV01 

this cmdlet should be run on DEMOAD machine. If  everything is ok you should receive something like:

wsmid : http://schemas.dmtf…
ProtocolVersion: http://schemas…
ProductVendor: Microsoft Corporation
ProductVersion: OS: 0.0.0 SP: 0.0 Stack: 2.0

If you did not enable remoting on DEMORDSSRV01.demo.local you will receive:

Test-WSMan : The WinRM client cannot complete the operation…

If you receive this error try to reenable Powershell Remoting by using cmdlet: Enable-PSRemoting

3. Create a powershell script (a txt file that has extension .ps1) for example remoteprocess.ps1 edit it with your notepad and write inside the cmdlet:
get-process -computername demordssrv01 | out-file c:\remoteprocess.txt

this script will request process list from demordssrv01 and the result will be pipelined to txt file called c:\remoteprocess.txt on demoad.demo.local – so from machine that will execute the query.

4. When you are done with script you just need to create a Basic Task in Task Scheduler. You can check my prevous article (part1) to see other steps to do that.

Ok, this guide will tell you how to do it… How to run separate commands from powershell and how to run a complete scripts so you can realy start to automate your stuff by using Powershell…

Example: I would like to schedule script that lists all processes running on a specific server
1. on my server I will first create a txt file (extension should be renamed to ps1 – as we are writing powershell script) called listproces.ps1
2. into the file I will put my scipt:

get-process | out-file c:\processes.txt

3. start task scheduler on server and Create Basic Task
Name: Powershell list processes
Triger: Chose when you want your script to run
Action: Start a program
Program / script: powershell.exe
Add arguments: -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned –Noninteractive –Noprofile –File C:\listproces.ps1

Important! You should set your task to run whether user is logged into a session or not… To do that do the folowing:

Mike wrote: 

“I’ve found an even easier way to do this.  I found a PowerShell Hyper-V script at:

http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv

It has a lot of functions already, and I added a “Kill-VM” function that automates the kill process:

Kill-VM <VM name>

My modified script is attached to this message.

To use it, you need to install PowerShell (Under Server Manager -> Features in Win2008).  Once installed, run PowerShell from Start -> Search, find the script, and type:

. .\hyperv.ps1

Once loaded into memory, type:

Kill-VM <VM Name>

Enjoy”

Click here to download script – hyperv-script.zip

 Great stuff!!!

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “mailbox database” | Sort -Property DisplayName | ft DisplayName,@{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Mailbox Size(MB)”}, itemcount, lastlogontime,lastlogofftime,lastloggedonuseraccount

2. Sorted by Last logon time
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “mailbox database” | Sort -Property lastlogontime | ft DisplayName,@{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Mailbox Size(MB)”}, itemcount, lastlogontime, lastlogofftime