Cleanup Exchange mailbox via scheduled task (Exchange 2013/2016)

Cleanup Exchange mailbox via scheduled task (Exchange 2013/2016) Lot’s of customers ask whether it’s possible to clean up a certain mailbox in exchange periodically. I did some scripting and made a tutorial for running the script as scheduled task. Link to the script on Github: Script to clean up a journaling mailbox via scheduled task …

GPO settings Internet Explorer Maintenance missing

When you have a look on lots of different it environments you often find old GPO settings or old templates. There are mostly new domaincontrollers or updated internet explorers on domaincontrollers. What people did not consider when updating is, that for example internet explorer maintenance disappears when updating to IE11 on a domaincontroller. NOTE: before …

Finding temporary word / excel / powerpoint files (tilde files) document locked by user

Some days ago I found an issue concerning word /excel documents. The behavior was strange, because one of these programms said that the file the user wanted to open, was locked by another user. But this user definitly did not open it. Only the mentioned user who “locked” it was able to open and change …

Find users in Azure AD or Office365 with password never expires and old passwords

A lot of companies put much some services from on-premises installation to the cloud. For this reason my todays post treats Office365 or AzureAD. In larger environments containing hybrid office 365 /azure ad (also in pure azure ad environments) overview gets lost really quick because azure ad does not have diagnostic tools (not as deep …