Category: Exchange 2010

Scenario:  You are attempting to remove the full access permission on a mailbox by running the remove-mailboxpermission command:

remove-mailboxpermission TestUser -user steve -accessrights Fullaccess -confirm:$False

But you are receiving this error :

Warning= “Can’t remove the access control entry on the object “CN=TestUser,DC=xyz,DC=com” for account “xyzsteve” because the ACE doesn’t exist on the object.”

Clearly the permission exists when you check with the get-mailboxpermission.

Solution:  Append the -deny:$True to the end of the powershell command and try it again.

remove-mailboxpermission TestUser -user steve -accessrights Fullaccess -confirm:$False -deny:$True

Scenario:  You use mountpoints in your Exchange organization and you want to check for specific disk information for your mountpoints by database name.   Note: The label of the mountpoint reflects the database name.

Script:

#Enter the DB Variable
$Db = "DB01"
#Script
$Servers = Get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus $DB | Select -ExpandProperty MailboxServer
$1 = @()
$Servers | %{
    "Checking on $_ for $Db"
    $1+= Invoke-Command -Computer $_ -argumentlist $db -ScriptBlock {Get-WmiObject win32_volume | Where label -like $args[0] | Select Name, Label, FreeSpace, FileSystem, SerialNumber}
}
#ViewResults
$1

Scenario:  You want a script that will remove all mobile devices older than 180 days.  You also want to report the CAS Mailboxes that have a mobile device partnership and the list of mobile devices removed.

Scriptlets:

Here are the commands broken down by output type:

#Collect CasMailboxes with Mobile Devices
$cas = Get-CASMailbox -ResultSize unlimited –Filter {(HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true)} | Select -expandproperty Identity

#Export a List of Cas Mailboxes
$cas | Sort | Export-csv C:tempCASmailbox.csv 

#Collect devices older than 180 days old
$device = @()
$cas | sort | %{
"Checking $_" 
$device += Get-MobileDeviceStatistics -Mailbox $_ | Where-Object {$_.LastSuccessSync -le ((Get-Date).AddDays(“-180”))} 
}

#Export-csv Stale Devices
$Device | Export-csv C:tempStaleDevices.csv

#Remove Mobile Devices
$Device | Remove-mobiledevice -confirm:$false