SysAdmin Talk

In the last part of this guide the process for importing a local PST file into exchange server was shown. However, in reality it is likely that these PST files are scattered liberally around your network on the hard drives of your users machines as a result of Outlooks personal archiving. Ideally – so that this process is transparent to your users, you’d like some way of finding all these PST files – pairing them up with their users, and importing them into the appropriate mailbox. Here I show you how.

Importing a PST file into Exchange 2010 requires the use of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and lots of Powershell scripts and cmdlets. here I go through how to get started. You can watch a video on this too!

In an Active Directory domain running at the Windows Server 2003 or higher functional level  the lastLogonTimestamp attribute can be used to find out if a user or computer has logged on to the domain recently.  This can be useful information for finding inactive user and computer accounts so that they can be removed from AD.