Well… not so much dead as out of support. As of today both Exchange 2000 and SQL 7 Support ends, which means, no more patches, no more support unless you buy a custom support agreement. If this doesn’t bother you and you don’t plan on moving – great, if you didn’t know about this and […]
Looking at my last post on this topic, gathering and analysing remote logs rather bleak compared to local CMDlets however I’ll give you a really hot clue on how to do this with very little effort. PowerShell 2.0 remoting functions. Think of the power of local CMDlets available remotely and you’re not making remote WMI […]
You might be wondering why I’m posting so much about PowerShell since I’m an Exchange MVP. I’m going to try and expand on this a little bit and add as much clarity as I can. Jeffrey Snover has spoken about this a lot in his introductory sessions on PowerShell and I’d like to amplify this […]
In this post I’m going to cover how to deal with event log’s on remote servers. The reasoning here is that most server exist in a locked down environment and the average admin will be running admin scripts on his/her local workstation. How do we do it? Again were going to turn to WMI. […]
If you even have the slightest interest in Powershell, then check out PowerGUI. PowerGUI is a REALLY nice extensible wrapper around Powershell. You can learn a lot from the script source that’s included in the product and there’s a TON of Exchange 2007 stuff that you can do from PowerGUI that’s hard to do from […]
I’m going to start off with by referring to an Exchange 2000 article called Automating Exchange 2000 Management with Windows Script Host, since it set’s the scene quite nicely for WMI based management for Exchange 2000. Exchange 2000 introduced a set of new WMI classes, and Exchange 2003 introduced a few more. PoweShell is […]
Most folks I talk to have installed Powershell, but not done much with it. Most of these folks also run Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 and don’t dream of managing Exchange from anything else but the GUI or VBScript. Point in case, a lot of Exchange 2003 information is available via WMI. Powershell makes WMI […]