Removing an Exchange Database copy or a database should not be hardwork, especially when it can be done with the Exchange Management Shell. **Take note, if you have circular logging enabled, you need to firstly disable it before you can remove an Exchange database copy** To remove a mailbox database copy, you can run the […]
In Exchange, mailbox moves and cleanup happen all the time, especially when you upgrading to newer versions etc. Now when you move mailboxes and you not using a 3rd party app like Odin that sits as an extra layer, you cannot see the store size from the web console. In Exchange you can run the […]
In Exchange, when a user deletes mail from there mailbox, it is retained within the dumpster for the period you have setup in your environment. There may come a time when you need to clear out the dumpster for a mailbox instead of waiting for XX period of time. To do this, you need to […]
As an IT Admin or Exchange Admin, you might have come across the question “When were the mailboxes created”. In this quick example, we will look at the script you can run to check all users in the Organization or just an individual mailbox. To check all users in Exchange, you can run the following […]
In Exchange 2010, you may notice that when you want to seed your 3rd copy of the DAG, you don’t have the option to select a source server like you have in newer versions of Exchange. It will always seed from the Active copy. To achieve this goal using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS), you […]
In exchange, many commands are directed at all mailboxes in the environment, but there is a time when you only want info on a specific organizational unit (OU). It is actually very easy to do, below is a snippet of a script you can use to get the last logon information for an OU which […]
Here is a quick tip on how to move a few or a couple of hundred Offline address books with the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) by running a single command: If you had to use the Exchange Management Console (EMC), it will take you quite a while to do but with PowerShell you can run […]
Exporting mailboxes is great but what if you only wanted information for a certain period as you need it for whatever reason, legal, manager, etc. Well using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) you can run the following command to export the data: null $Users = Get-Content “C:\Users\User1\Desktop\doc.csv” foreach ($User in ($Users)) {New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $User -ContentFilter […]
When doing mailbox moves on Exchange, you want to know how far they are progressing etc. In the Exchange Management Console (EMC) you can add the Percent Complete column to see the Percentage per mailbox as shown below: This is okay but if you like me rather prefer using Powershell, then you can run the […]
There are many ways in PowerShell to check the mailbox database copy status in Exchange, here are some examples from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Blanket check.Per DAG check.Per Server check. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * The above command runs across all servers and databases in the environment. Below is the next example. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Identity dag1* The above […]