PowerShell Archive - Frankys Web

Exchange Extended Protection and HAProxy

July 14, 2023 by Frank Zöchling

A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, has kindly sent me his scripts and configuration for Let's Encrypt, HAProxy and Exchange 2019 in conjunction with Extended Protection so that I can publish them here. First of all, I would like to thank you very much, because I think this configuration (HAProxy as a reverse proxy for Exchange, certificates via Let's ... Read more

Exchange Server and OpenAI GPT-3?

May 19, 2023 by Frank Zöchling

OpenAI AI is currently on everyone's lips and every day there are new articles in the media about GPT3 or GPT-4 with tests of how well or badly something works. There are calls for the regulation of AI systems and some people are already predicting mass unemployment. Whether all this ... Read more

Small script to determine the Exchange Server status

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 by Frank Zöchling

In this article there is once again a small script that can display the status of important Exchange parameters. The script clearly shows the status of the databases, queues, services and storage space. So you can get a first quick overview of the Exchange status in case of problems. The script can be downloaded from GitHub: ... Read more

Error during the installation of the Exchange Online Shell

May 3, 2021 by Frank Zöchling

Sometimes it may be necessary to install the Exchange Online Shell on an older operating system, for example if an older Exchange Server version is to be migrated to Exchange Online or Microsoft 365. However, when trying to install the shell, an error may occur where the error message is not entirely clear. The following error message can occur, ... Read more

NoSpamProxy: Dashboards with Grafana

January 11, 2021 by Frank Zöchling

Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf can also be used to create attractive dashboards for statistics or monitoring for the NoSpamProxy e-mail security gateway. For the dashboards, the Windows performance counters for NoSpamProxy can be sent to an InfluxDB using Telegraf. The data can then be displayed on a dashboard using Grafana. Here is an example ... Read more

Ookla Speedtest.net and PowerShell

December 13, 2020 by Frank Zöchling

The company Ookla, with the well-known site speedtest.net for testing internet speed, also offers tools for the command line. The tool itself can deliver the output in JSON format and is therefore very suitable for passing the data on to various other applications. This allows you to create a nice overview of the Internet connection speed. I have a ... Read more

Error message during Exchange 2016 CU update via PowerShell

November 6, 2020 by Dirk Rommel

Here is another error that can lead to despair, as there are some suggestions for a solution on the net, but they didn't help me. I had to install Exchange 2016 CU 17 for a customer and, as many people know, .NET Framework 4.8 is required for this. However, as the customer still ... Read more

QuickTip: Posh-SSH module on Windows Server 2019

April 16, 2020 by Frank Zöchling

On several Windows 2019 servers, I have already had the problem that the PowerShell module "Posh-SSH" only returns an error message when establishing an SSH connection. I had this problem with Windows Server 2019 and the Posh-SSH module in version 2.2. Here is a quick tip on how to fix the problem. The error message is as follows: ... Read more

Tip: PowerShell Universal Dashboard

April 25, 2019 by Frank Zöchling

Attractive dashboards can be created with many different applications, such as Kibana and Grafana. However, dashboards can also be created directly with PowerShell. Ironman Software offers the "Powershell Universal Dashboard" module for this purpose. The Community Edition can be used free of charge and has only a few restrictions compared to the Enterprise Edition. Here is an overview ... Read more

Enlarge virtual hard disks in Hyper-V with PowerShell

September 10, 2017 by René Albarus

I would also like to start by thanking Frank for allowing me to contribute to FrankysWeb with my own articles. As I work a lot with Hyper-V servers, I would like to share my knowledge here and write some articles about it. I would like to start with instructions on how to increase or expand virtual hard disks in Hyper-V servers.