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July 2009
Exchange 2007 PowerShell DistributionGroup commands
Here aresome PowerShell cmdlets for working with distribution group in exchange 2007 Get-DistributionGroup – Retrieves properties of a distribution group New-DistributionGroup – Creates a new distribution group Remove-DistributionGroup – Deletes a distribution group Set-DistributionGroup – Set Properties on a distribution group
How To Create New Exchange 2007 Contacts
You can create (aka import) email contacts in Exchange 2007 from the command line using PowerShell (the Exchange Console). The PS script will read the contact information from a CSV file. Here is the powershell (Exchange Console) script/command: Import-Csv contacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.Emailaddress -OrganizationalUnit “domain.com/company/email/contacts” } NOTE: be sure to adjust the -OrganizationalUnit parameter in the command above. CSV file: (contacts.csv) displayName,Emailaddress Mike Wood,michael@example.com John Q. Customer,johnc@example.org etc,etc@example.net
DOS variables: %date% and %time%
Need to do some date and/or time manipulation in a DOS batch/command file? Here is a good example: set filedatetime=%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2% echo %filedatetime% 2009-01-28_15120393 Hope this helps you with your batch files.
Error Starting Outlook 2007
Error: “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” Fix: Orb/Start -> run… -> Outlook.exe /resetnavpane
