The following, run from an elevated command prompt, will securely erase the free space from a hard drive running Windows 7 and newer causing the data to be safe from recovery… cipher /w:X SDelete (secure delete) from the Sysinternals suite can also be utilized to accomplish the same task… sdelete -p 7 -z X:…
Ever needed to clear all events from each of the 1100+ Event Viewer logs on a Windows workstation? From an elevated PowerShell console, run the following script to clear the event logs in Event Viewer… wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {wevtutil cl “$_”} Good luck.
There may be an occasion when we need to find out who the members of a dynamic distribution group are. The following two commands should get us what we need, when run from the Exchange Management Shell. The only changes that need to be made to the commands are the items in red; based on the dynamic…
To add an individual mailbox user to a distribution group in PowerShell that has an owner already assigned, the command will look similar to this… Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity “DISTRIBUTION_GROUP_NAME” -Member “USER_ALIAS” -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck To add multiple mailbox users to multiple distribution groups, we need to make a CSV file (C:\DistroMembers.csv for this example). The CSV file should…
I had a project recently where we were migrating from hosted Exchange to Office 365. We implemented AAD Connect to sync Active Directory (AD) user objects for the user mailboxes that where being migrated. However, we manually created shared and resource mailboxes, groups, and contacts in O365 as those were not going to be created in AD for synchronization.…
