EXCHANGE: Apply to Mailbox Retention Policy to Security Group Members

This powershell script will apply a Mailbox Retention Policy to a Active Directory Security Group Members

This script require Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory, available for FREE at http://www.quest.com/powershell/

To add the ActiveRoles Management Shell snap-in from Windows PowerShell
At the Windows PowerShell prompt, enter the following command:

Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement

This is the script:

Get-QADGroupMember 'Exchange Retention Exception' | ForEach-Object {set-Mailbox $_.Name -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy "Managed-Folders-60-Days"}

MS: set color quality to 32 bit when RDP VMware VMs

When I RDP a VMware Virtual Machine (VM) running Windows Server 2008. The color quality is 16 bit even if we set 32 bit on Remote Desktop Client.



Solution: modify the local policy using gpedit.msc and modify following policy:

Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Terminal Services, Terminal Server, Remote Session Environment

MS: Report items amount and size of each manage folder in Exchange

This powershell script will show how many items and size of each managed folder of all users in a Exchange 2007/2010 organization.

Get-Mailbox foreach { $mbx = $_.DisplayName; Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $_.identity -FolderScope 'Managed Folders' select @{n="DisplayName";e={$mbx}},FolderPath,ItemsInFolder,@{n="FolderSize(MB)";e={$_.folderSize.toMB()}}} export-csv c:\reports\ManagedFolders_12152010.csv

MS: Windows 2008 Profile Loading Error

Check Profile List and delete key with .bak at the end.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList