Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,219 views | 26/07/2011 23:14
If you have an MTA, you have to configure Send-Connector to use that MTA as a smarthost. If that MTA is yours, then you can set relay on that server for your Exchange servers. But what about 3rd party MTA providers like DynDNS? They give you username/password for Basic Authentication and you can’t send email without that credentials. So we also need to set Basic Authentication on Send-Connector but how? Because Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1 has no GUI and Powershell requires System.Management.Automation.PSCredential to accept your credentials. I’ll show you how to solve this.
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| $SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "PASSWORD_HERE" -AsPlainText -Force
$Credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "USERNAME_HERE", $SecurePassword
Get-SendConnector "SEND_CONNECTOR_HERE" | Set-SendConnector -DNSRoutingEnabled $false -SmartHosts 'SMARTHOST_HERE' -SmartHostAuthMechanism 'BasicAuth' -UseExternalDNSServersEnabled $false -AuthenticationCredential $Credentials |
For example you have an MTA service from DynDNS and your information:
Host: smtp.dyndns.org
Username: yusufozturk
Password: password
Default Send Connector: Internet Connector
So you should use this script for that informations:
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| $SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force
$Credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "yusufozturk", $SecurePassword
Get-SendConnector "Internet Connector" | Set-SendConnector -DNSRoutingEnabled $false -SmartHosts 'smtp.dyndns.org' -SmartHostAuthMechanism 'BasicAuth' -UseExternalDNSServersEnabled $false -AuthenticationCredential $Credentials |
After this changes, you will be able to use your MTA.
Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,054 views | 30/06/2011 23:58
You can get DAG configuration with this script.
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| $DAGMemberServersArray = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
If ($Selected.Count -eq "0")
{
Write-Host "You didn't choose any DAG configuration."
Write-Host " "
Write-Host " "
Read-Host "Press enter to go back"
}
else
{
foreach ($DAGConfMember in $Selected)
{
$DAGInfo = (Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup $DAGConfMember)
$DAGName = $DAGInfo.Name
$DAGWitnessServer = $DAGInfo.WitnessServer.fqdn
$DAGWitnessDirectory = $DAGInfo.WitnessDirectory.PathName
$DAGIPAddress = $DAGInfo.DatabaseAvailabilityGroupIpv4Addresses
Write-Host "DAG Name: $DAGName" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host "DAG Witness Server: $DAGWitnessServer" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host "DAG Witness Directory: $DAGWitnessDirectory" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host "DAG IP: $DAGIpAddress" -ForegroundColor Green
$DAGMemberServers = (Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup $DAGConfMember).Servers
Foreach ($DAGMemberServer in $DAGMemberServers)
{
$DAGMemberServersArray.Add("$DAGMemberServer") | Out-Null
}
Write-Host "Server Members: $DAGMemberServersArray" -ForegroundColor Green
Write-Host " "
Write-Host " "
$DAGMemberServersArray.Clear();
}
Read-Host "Press enter to go back"
$Selected.Clear();
} |
$Selected is an array of Mailbox Servers.
Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,018 views | 30/06/2011 23:54
This script checks all available hub transport servers for DAG membership.
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| $AvailableHTServer = @(Get-ExchangeServer | where {$_.ServerRole -like "*HubTransport*" -and $_.ServerRole -notlike "*Mailbox*"})
$AvailableHTServerCount = $AvailableHTServer.Count
$DAGName = Read-Host "Enter a name for your DAG"
Write-Host " "
if ($AvailableHTServerCount -gt "0")
{
$AvailableHTServerName = $AvailableHTServer[0].Name
Write-Host "Would you like to use $AvailableHTServerName as a witness server?"
Write-Host "1) Yes"
Write-Host "2) No"
Write-Host " "
[int]$HTQuestion = Read-Host "Enter number to select an option"
Write-Host " "
if ($HTQuestion -eq "1")
{
$WitnessServer = $AvailableHTServerName
}
else
{
$WitnessServer = Read-Host "Enter witness server name (like $AvailableHTServerName)"
}
}
else
{
Write-Warning "There are no suitable Hub Transport servers as a witness server."
Write-Warning "You should enter a witness server which has no Mailbox role on it."
Write-Warning "Make sure that the group Exchange Trusted Subsystem is added to the local administrators of the server that will be the witness server."
Write-Host " "
$WitnessServer = Read-Host "Enter witness server name"
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You can use $WitnessServer for provisioning.
Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,171 views | 30/06/2011 23:47
Hello,
You can use this script as a function to prepare Active Directory for HE 2010.
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| $ErrorCode = $Null
Import-Module ServerManager
$ADStatus = (Get-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS).Installed
If ($ADStatus -ne $True)
{
Write-Warning "You should install Active Directory Administration Tools (RSAT-ADDS)"
Write-Host " "
Write-Warning "Aborting.."
Start-Sleep 3
$ErrorCode = "500"
}
If ($ErrorCode -eq $Null)
{
Write-Host " "
$OrganizationName = Read-Host "Organization Name"
Write-Host " "
$CurrentLocation = (Get-Location).Path
$SetupFile = $CurrentLocation + "\setup.com"
If (!(Test-Path -Path $SetupFile))
{
$SetupFilePath = Read-Host "Setup File Path"
$SetupFile = $SetupFilePath + "\setup.com"
If (!(Test-Path -Path $SetupFile))
{
Write-Warning "Could not find setup.com file."
Write-Host " "
Write-Warning "Aborting.."
Start-Sleep 3
$ErrorCode = "550"
}
}
}
If ($ErrorCode -eq $Null)
{
&"$SetupFile" /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:$OrganizationName /hosting
Write-Host " "
Write-Host "AD preparation completed successfully."
Start-Sleep 3
$PrepareADStatus = "Completed"
}
else
{
$PrepareADStatus = "Failed"
} |
Setup.com stores in Exchange 2010 SP1 DVD.
Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 2,284 views | 30/06/2011 23:05
Hello,
I’m happy to pronounce my new Powershell tool. I’m sure that will help who wants to install Hosted Exchange.
Functionalities:
1) Prepare Active Directory: Prepares existing active directory to install Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1.
2) Install Exchange Roles: Helps you to install Exchange roles unattended.
3) Uninstall Exchange Roles: Helps you to uninstall Exchanges roles which you don’t need anymore.
4) Setup Exchange DAG: Sets up Exchange DAG, Witness Directory and IP/Subnet Configuration for Cluster.
5) Setup CAS Array: Creates Client Access Arrays, helps you to assign members
6) Setup Outlook Anywhere: Enables Outlook Anywhere and configures RPC service.
7) Setup Receive/Send Connector: Helps you to configure Hub Transport servers.
8) Setup SSL Certificate: Helps you to create CSR, Import/Export SSL Certificates and assign services
9) Virtual Directory Configuration: Checks the virtual directories and fix them if they are not default.
Download:
Donate: Thanks to support this open source project!
Usage:
1. First, you should allow signed Powershell scripts:
Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned
2. Go to directory and execute start.ps1:
Sponsor: Applied Innovations

Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,975 views | 05/01/2011 16:29
Gerekli işletim sistemi bileşenlerini Powershell kullanarak kurabilirsiniz.
Öncelikle ServerManager modülünü import edin:
Import-Module ServerManager
Şimdi gerekli bileşenleri yükleyebilirsiniz:
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
Bu bileşenler sadece CAS rolü için geçerlidir.
Posted in Exchange Server, Windows Powershell | No Comment | 1,766 views | 05/01/2011 16:20
Gerekli işletim sistemi bileşenlerini Powershell kullanarak kurabilirsiniz.
Öncelikle ServerManager modülünü import edin:
Import-Module ServerManager
Şimdi gerekli bileşenleri yükleyebilirsiniz:
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server -Restart
Bu bileşenler sadece Hub Transport rolü için geçerlidir.
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