How to Check Whether an AI Answer Is True: A Practical Verification Guide
Learn how to verify AI answers, citations, commands, dates, and technical claims using primary sources, independent confirmation, and safe testing ... Read More
You are searching for the folder inside a mailbox that contains the oldest message. Mailbox folders can be scanned specifying certain criteria. This one-liner takes advantage of the OldestItemReceivedDate property of the MailboxDatabaseFolder query output. It crawls through all the ... Read More
Are emails deleted forever in Exchange? Obviously if you delete an email the normal way, it will be put in the "Deleted Items" folder inside your mailbox. But what happens if you delete them even from there? Or straight hard-delete ... Read More
There are scenarios where we need to know if an email address already exists inside the organization. At first glance it might not be obvious what object has a specific email address, as in Exchange any mail enabled objects can ... Read More
In this short guide we deploy a Windows-based SSTP server for clients. For details about the protocol and the way to deploy a linux-based implementation of the server that has auto-renewing SSL certificates, visit my guide HERE. Our test VM ... Read More
Always Hot Café needs a fast and cheap way to set up a VPN solution for it's workers. They don't want to invest in expensive hardware, or software. Also, the employees have Windows laptops and they want to use the ... Read More
The quick way to get a user's SID or identify a SID if the username is unknown. First we use the command line to retrieve the reqested values, then a custom PowerShell function that can be used to get any ... Read More
Does expired mean it is not working anymore? When an SSL certificate is signed, it gets an expiry date. It doesn't matter if it is "self-signed" - meaning that a not trusted server signed it (for instance the webserver itself) ... Read More
When data is deleted from an Exchange database, the size of the actual EDB file does not decrease.Imagine the following situation: your server runs out of disk space, so you decide to move a few mailboxes away from the database, ... Read More
This script lists the database sizes in our environment. Not only the used space is retrieved, but the whitespace and the number of mailboxes is displayed in each databases as well. When data is deleted from a database - either ... Read More
From time to time performing maintenance on a DAG member server might be necessary. For example, cumulative updates for Exchange are released quarterly, installing them requires stopping services and rebooting the server. During the process we want the mail flow, ... Read More
