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List of Hidden Distribution Group

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:45:05 +0000

You may find that you need to get a list of all of the distribution groups in your Exchange Organization that are hidden from the GAL (Global Address List). The following command is a simple powershell command that will accomplish this.

get-distributiongroup | select name, hiddenfromaddresslistsenabled | WHERE {$_.HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled -eq $true }

This will give you a two columned list. The first column will contain the name of the distribtuion list, and the second column will contain the value of the HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled field.

How to hide a Distribution Group from the GAL with Powershell

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:35:54 +0000

Here is a simple command that will save you some time. Instead of having to open up a GUI, you can just type this command in a PowerShell window and hide a Group from the GAL (Global Address List)

set-distributiongroup [GROUPNAME] -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

This will then hide the list from the GAL. No need to go into the GUI to get it done.

Delete all messages after date from mailbox

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:16:59 +0000

I was asked to delete everything from a mailbox called familydomains that was older than 2009. Here is the Exchange Powershell command that I used to delete everything earlier than 12/31/2008 to a PST file located in my C:\temp directory.

export-mailbox familydomains -PSTFolderPath C:\temp\ -DeleteContent -endDate 12/31/2008

The advantage to doing it this way is that no emails are actually deleted. They are moved from the mailbox to the PST file, so they can be imported, or viewed through Outlook at a later date if the end user changes their mind.

Command to list all messages to a specific domain for the day

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:07 +0000

If you want to list all of the messages sent to a recipient with a specific domain, you can run this command. It will export a list of all message from 8:00AM – 5:00PM on 10/17/2009 that were to someone on the domainname.com domain. The list will be saved to c:\send.xls

get-transportserver | Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “10/17/2009 8:00AM” -End “11/17/2009 5:00PM” -eventid Send | WHERE {$_.recipients -like “*domainname.com*”} > “c:\send.xls”