Wednesday 17 August 2016

vSphere 5.0 and 5.1

If you are still running vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 in your environment, it's time to consider upgrading to 5.5 or 6.0 as VMware will end their general support of 5.0 and 5.1 on the 24th August 2016.

After the 24th August 2016 VMware will no longer issue security patches, updates or bug fixes for vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 which could have a negative impact on your server applications and hardware hosts.

Upgrading hosts within a production environment is never a simple or easy task but it's definitely one you should look into and start planning.

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Pull Name, SMTP, OU and last logon time from Exchange 2013

This script enables you to pull together the Name, Primary SMTP Address, Organizational Unit and Last Logon Time information.  This information can be useful if you are trying to find out which mailboxes are being used or not.  This script has been tested on Exchange 2013 only.  


Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Select-Object DisplayName, PrimarySMTPAddress, OrganizationalUnit, @{label="LastLogonTime";expression={(Get-MailboxStatistics $_).LastLogonTime}}