#Exchange2010 – Found this and it’s damm handy and what’s cool is that its a Windows Powershell v2 thing and you don’t need Exchange Source: http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/11/send-emails-easily-using-powershell-v2.html  -and- Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347693.aspx The Send-MailMessage cmdlet sends an e-mail message from within Windows PowerShell. Send-MailMessage –From Rajith@chakka.local –To Deepak@chakka.local –Subject “Test Email” –Body “Testing the cmdlet” –SmtpServer exch07.chakka.local

I’m doing requests now This script will dump a list of user accounts that have “Password never expires” checked $CurrentDomain = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::getcurrentdomain() $Forest = $CurrentDomain.Forest.ToString() $Forest = “dc=” + $Forest $Forest = $Forest.Replace(“.”,”,dc=”) $Root     = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $Dom $selector = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $selector.PageSize = 1000 $selector.SearchRoot = $root $selector.Filter= “(&(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))” $objs= $selector.findall() $objs  

WHAT! I hear you say, you can’t do that! .. Very true, but you can automate it using the wonders of Powershell Exchange 200x First you will need to use adsiedit.msc and get the groups distinguishedName.  Once you have that, using an account that has access to over the users AD objects you run this

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This is a handy little check.  If you want to see what scheduled tasks are running on your Exchange 2007 servers try this: Get-ExchangeServer | foreach-object{$srv=$_.Name.ToString(); write-host “`n`n$srv”; schtasks /s \\$srv /query} Enjoy