Powershell script to report on total send/received e-mails in Exchange

  Update: 2017-08-16 – I have published a new version of this script here   This is a simple PowerShell script that pulls all of the send/received e-mails from the Message Tracking log in Exchange 2010 and counts the unique header IDs. It’s fairly accurate but I don’t think it’s 100% bang on. My testing … Read more

Powershell script to create reverse lookups (PTR) in Microsoft DNS

We’re switching IP spaces at work and need to create a large amount of reverse lookup PTR records for our PAT/NAT pools. Microsoft only allows you to manually create one DNS entry at a time via the GUI so I wrote a simple Powershell script that lets you mass create sequential PTR records.   #################################### … Read more

KB2917508 (Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3) appears to hang during installation

Last updated: [last-modified] Recently I had to install KB2917508 on one of our existing Exchange 2010 SP3 servers. This Rollup had been successfully installed on our 4 other Exchange servers but for some odd reason this server it would appear to hang during the install progress. The progress bar would stop just short of 50% … Read more

Proxy Settings pushed by GPO not applying to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9

I support a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain, until today only Windows XP clients and Internet Explorer 8. We use a proxy server to filter and monitor the internet and we push the configuration for that proxy server via Group Policy. Our current GPO works perfectly with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 8. Today we … Read more