How to deal with Spoofed Emails

Spoofed emails are increasing in Messaging World , This is causing lot of frauds by impersonating as some one else. We as Messaging Admins can take certain steps to avoid these kind of cheating/ Frauds. These are not simple to handle if organization that you work for, is in business from very long time as…

Take Ownership and Grant Permissions

Sharing a advanced script that I have used for one of our projects, This script is compatible with Powershell Version 2.0 & 3.0 There was a requirement from Backup Team that When they run the script on particular folder it should recurse thru all subfolder Take ownership of only those folder where Backup account gets access…

Bulk start, stop, disable of windows services

Sharing a script that we have used recently for stopping/starting exchange services & setting those to disabled/enabled for some hardware maintenance work. This script has been enhanced to be used with any of the windows services. Extract the script zip from below link & update the servers.txt & services.txt that is placed inside the script folder. ServiceSts.zip…

Ironport Health Check

Hi Readers, You have seen other Health check scripts from me for Exchange , AD /Microsoft products. This time I have used PowerShell to perform health check on Cisco Product i.e. IronPort 🙂 Thanks to the Internet community from which I got the idea on how can I use PowerShell & get Health check reports out…

Switch Internet Explorer Tabs after regular intervals

Hi Readers, We had two of our Monitoring dashboards that we want to display on the wide screen & want to switch between them after a minute. You can use either below VB  or PowerShell snippet & schedule it every 1 minute via task scheduler. VB Script —————————————– Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) WshShell.AppActivate “Internet Explorer” WshShell.SendKeys “^{TAB}”…