Office 365 – How to export a mailbox to a PST

Where I work, when someone leaves we run through an out-process where one of the steps is to backup the users emailbox to a .pst before removing it from the system.  Since storage is cheap its always nice to have a backup of your backups.  Performing a process like that is easy enough when its  a local exchange server, “export-mailbox”, […]

Deleting Files with Powershell

Recently I had an issue in my environment on a reasonably old and very slow system, one of those machines that does something very specific and always works.  The problem is that I was going to replace the hard drive and I had to clean up a backup folder that it had.  On a very slow hard drive deleting some […]

Stop being afraid of Windows Server CORE

I have been an admin for longer than I want to admit…I’m not old, I’m experienced.  One thing I always seem to see notice among Windows admins is that if there is no GUI, they aren’t interested.  Well several years ago Microsoft started producing a version of their server OS that were just command line since then I don’t think that […]