Dan Sheehan’s Blog
Microsoft Premier Field Engineer
PowerShell: Taking Control of CTRL-C.
Have you ever been in the middle of running a PowerShell script and hit CTRL-C to stop it, and...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2018
Exchange: Lingering/Orphaned In-Place Holds on mailboxes blocking cleanup/moves.
This blog post covers two different scenarios when an In-Place Hold is removed off an eDiscovery...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 10/26/2018
Confirming/Validating PowerShell Get-Credential Input Before Use
Have you ever used Get-Credential to generate credentials in PowerShell, only to find out when you...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 06/23/2018
Tracking and Controlling PowerShell Script Execution Progress via XML
Have you ever wanted to track the progress of one of your multi-step/stage PowerShell scripts on a...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2018
PowerShell code to wait for a background process to finish before continuing on with a script
While this code was originally developed for an Exchange script, you can use it for any PowerShell...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2018
Use PowerShell to determine the first and last days of the current calendar quarter.
Time for some fun with PowerShell. :) ***Updated to include code Eric created to determine the last...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2017
Greetings & Generating an Exchange User Message Profile PowerShell Script.
Greetings world! My name is Dan Sheehan, and I work as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft,...
Author: Dan Sheehan [MSFT] Date: 04/22/2015