I often need to get statistics and check mailbox sizes and quotas and here are some useful notes and examples that I often cut'n'paste instead of re-inventing them: Get top list of big mailboxes, sorted by size: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Select-Object DisplayName,StorageLimitStatus,TotalItemSize -First 100 | Sort-Object TotalItemSize Find those who have reached their quota already: Get-Mailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Get-MailboxStatistics | where {$_.StorageLimitStatus -eq "IssueWarning"} Get-Mailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Get-MailboxStatistics | where {$_.StorageLimitStatus -eq [...]
Mailbox size and Quota useful PowerShell commands for Exchange
On September - 25 - 2013
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Create bootable USB for MDT
On August - 29 - 2013
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Sometimes, it's not possible to PXE-boot your machines to install them using MDT 2010 (because it might be a remote network/VLAN) . Then you have two scenarios that I will cover in this post: Scenario 1: A bootable USB that will connect to the Deployment Share over the network and transfer all the files. Scenario 2: A bootable USB that will contain all Deployment Share data and install everything from the USB Are you just looking for booting from USB and [...]
Creating a fully patch install.wim for Windows 7/8 without MDT but using WSUS Offline Updater
On August - 19 - 2013
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I often get asked by friends to re-install their computers and in return, they often offer dinner and wine in return... Sweet deal I think. Installing Windows doesn't take very long but the patching-reboot-patching-reboot take hours and I prefer sitting at the dinner table than in front of the computer. At work, I can just leave the computer running and we also have MDT/WSUS to speed up things so I can create a full patched reference image, but not possible [...]
