Using PowerShell to Remove Phishing Emails from User Mailboxes on an Exchange Server

You’ve all seen those phishing emails that occasionally get past your spam filters and you all also know that no matter how many times you tell users not to open those suspicious emails and click on links contained in them, users are ultimately gullible so sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and protect them from themselves. Here’s an example of a recent phishing email that I’ve seen:...

December 19, 2013 · 3 min · 608 words · Mike F. Robbins

Insane PowerShell One-Liner to Return the Name of Users with Quarantined Mailboxes in Exchange 2010

Have you ever had any mailboxes on your Exchange 2010 server marked as being quarantined? According to this Microsoft article, Exchange will isolate or quarantine any mailboxes that it detects as being poisoned. That TechNet article goes on to tell you how you can drill down in the registry on the Exchange Server to locate the GUID of the quarantined mailboxes. I don’t know about you but using the GUI to dig around in the registry is not what I call fun so I decided to use PowerShell to accomplish that task....

November 21, 2013 · 2 min · 325 words · Mike F. Robbins