List users in an active directory group

dsquery group domainroot -name groupname | dsget group -members | dsget user -fn -ln >output.csv This will dump a list of users in the "groupname" you have entered.

Exchange anonymous Relay

Exchange 2007/10 needs a new receice connector created, leave the local network set to default, change remote servers to be just the IP of the device you want to be able to relay. After the connector is created, edit it, remove all checks from authentication boxes, add a check to anonymous on the permission group. Open powershell and run: Get-ReceiveConnector “Anonymous Relay” | Add-ADPermission –User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” –ExtendedRights “Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient” This assumes you named the relay "anonymous relay"

Show exchange user mailbox size from Powershell

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server YOURSERVERNAME | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName,@{label=”TotalItemSize(KB)”;expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToKB()}},ItemCount You need to change SERVERNAME to your server, you can change KB to MB for totalitemsize.value to show in MB.

Disable Windows 7 Firewall by command line

Domain Profile: Netsh advfirewall set domainprofile state off Private Profile: Netsh advfirewall set privateprofile state off Public Profile: Netsh advfirewall set publicprofile state off Or to disable all: Netsh advfirewall set all state off Show profile status: Netsh advfirewall show allprofiles

Windows Firewall tips

You can't stop the service for Windows 7, you can however from a command line stop the firewall portion of the service. From a command line run: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off For Windows XP run: net stop SharedAccess and edit the registry key to stop the service from running: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess change start to 4.

Import email PST to exchange 2010

Only works with SP1 and up!!! Open powershell New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User UserAccount Place PST file in folder and share out, Exchange Trusted Subsystem must have read/write permissions to the folder. Next run the import command: New-MailboxImportRequest –Mailbox Usermailbox–FilePath \\full unc path to share\PST file name

Setup anonymous relay, exchange 2010

Open exchange manager, go to server configuration, hub transport, add new receive connector. Name it relay, in the next window remove the ip settings and add the server ip address, the next window add the devices you want to allow relay from. Once the connector is created, open the connector and choose permission groups and select anonymous. Then you need to run a command from the shell: Get-ReceiveConnector "Relay" | Add-ADPermission -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights "Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient" thats it.