Use VERBOSE to See What Your EMS Commands Do

"Sometimes you need to know exactly what EMS does to help track down a problem, perhaps to provide information to Microsoft support to help them figure out what's going on in your Exchange deployment. You might just want to know what's happening when you execute a command. In either case, you can add the –Verbose parameter to a command to have PowerShell generate details of exactly what it does as it proceeds."

- from "Exchange 2010 Inside Out" (written by Tony Redmond)

Reporting on Mailbox Move Requests

Get-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase DEUDB01 | Get-MoveRequestStatistics | select DisplayName, TotalMailboxSize, TotalMailboxItemCount, TotalQueuedDuration, TotalInProgressDuration, TotalSuspendedDuration, CompletionTimestamp | export-csv d:\deumoves.csv -NoTypeInformation

This command retrieves all move requests that were destined for the DEUDB01 database, pipes those to Get-MoveRequestStatistics, then selects certain fields for the report. The results are output to a CSV file so they can be opened in Excel.

CalCheck - Calendar Checking Tool

CalCheck is a Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook. It opens the default Calendar and checks the items in the calendar for known problems, and for certain logic problems, etc.


http://calcheck.codeplex.com/

Microsoft Releases Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27193

Since they had to pull and re-release both UR3 and UR4 due to bugs, I think we'll wait a few weeks before installing this one. Let's see if anyone reports any problems with this release.

Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007: This article is intended to give some best practice guidance along with workarounds to known issues involving the Exchange 2010 Management Pack (MP) running on System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM). Please look through this document before calling for support or posting to the forums as the issue may be covered below. If you find that these issues are particularly troublesome or find additional issues that you want fixed please call into Microsoft Support and raise a Request For Hotfix with the Exchange group.

Finding Users Who Have Send-As or Full Access Permissions to Mailboxes

From Pat Richards' blog... How to find users who have Send-As or FullAccess rights to other users' mailboxes, via PowerShell

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/archive/2011/08/15/one-liners_3A00_-Finding-users-who-have-Send_2D00_As-or-Full-Access-permissions-to-mailboxes.aspx

How To Retrieve or Set Maximum Send/Receive Size For Mail Contacts

Set the maximum message size for a specific mail contact or group of mail contacts

Get-MailContact -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.externalemailaddress -like "SMTP:CAN????@stores.pvt"} | Set-MailContact -MaxReceiveSize 65KB -MaxSendSize 65KB -ForceUpgrade

Retrieve specific mail contacts and report on their maximum send and receive message size 

Get-MailContact -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.externalemailaddress -like "SMTP:CAN????@stores.pvt"} | ft name, externalemailaddress, maxsendsize, maxreceivesize