Should I be able to import remote Exchange powershell into a script? It's seemingly just freezing / timing out.

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This is from within a custom task. Account has proper RBAC permissions and I can do this from a normal powershell window.

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Hello,

What exactly do you mean by import remote Exchange? Please, describe the task you want to fulfill with the script in all the possible details with live examples. Also , please, provide a screenshot of the Multi-server environment dialog. The dialog displays how many Adaxes services you have and what their versions are. For information on how to view it, see https://www.adaxes.com/help/MultiServerEnvironment. You can post the screenshot here or email to support@adaxes.com.

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It's freezing up at the following. $connUri is a mail servers FQDN.

Write-Log "Connecting to Exchange: $connUri"
$sessionOpt = New-PSSessionOption -OpenTimeout 30000 -OperationTimeout 60000
$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri $connUri -Authentication Kerberos -SessionOption $sessionOpt -ErrorAction Stop

We have two servers running 3.16.21906 in separate AD sites.

Answer 1

Hello,

First of all, Write-Log does not work in Adaxes scripts. To make an output, use method $Context.LogMessage. As for connecting to an on-premises Exchange server, have a look at the example in the following article: https://scripts.adaxes.com/connect-to-exchange-with-powershell#exchange-on-premises. We also recommend you to check the following tutorial: https://www.adaxes.com/help/AutomateExchangeMailboxConfiguration. Most probably, the task you need to perform can be done using built-in functionality without using any scripts.

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That isn't very helpful as Im basically running the same code to ill effect. There's seemingly no way to create a Distribution List directly, only mail enabling an AD group which we're trying to avoid since failures leave a dangling group.

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Hello,

Do we understand correctly that using the code from the repository article produces an error? If that is correct, please, provide a screenshot.