Powershell gives Exchange admins a lot of nice little tricks to use. Exchange 2010 has a new feature in tool tips. You can use Powershell, to run a basic for loop, looping through a quick Get-Mailbox. Based on the output of the Get-Mailbox, you can get a list of all valid mailboxes for an organization. You can then execute a command, allowing you to run any mailbox command against every mailbox of an organization. In the following example, we’ll use the Set-MailBox to make a basic mail tip for all users: foreach ($mailbox in (Get-Mailbox)) { Set-MailBox -Identity $mailbox -MailTip “Please send only legitimate emails” }
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The MacBook Air and the Mobile Lab
When does minimalism go too far? Maybe as a response to how much I travel, or maybe just because I’ve started loosing stuff in my old age, I have been reducing and getting more organized for years. I have endeavored to get rid of all that isn’t necessary and been welcomed by the fact that less truly is more. I buy less clothes, own less crap, I travel with fewer keys, I am less of a gear-head (outside of my lab of course), I ditched racks of systems in my old lab for 2 stacks of Mac Minis and I oddly end up throwing out less as well. And that…