Get-ExchangeServer
As with most PowerShell cmdlets you can control the output display by piping the output into Format-List (or Format-Table).
Get-ExchangeServer -Identity ExSv1 | Format-List
Note 2: If you want to focus on just one server append the -Identity parameter.
List the Get-ExchangeServer Parameters
Extend your scripting capabilities by getting to know more parameters:
Get-Help Get-ExchangeServer
Use the information to specify the status because it forces the cmdlet to include real-time information. For example, try this script with and without the -Status switch.
Get-ExchangeServer -Identity ExSv1 -Status | Format-List
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Test-servicehealth
Will test all the services running and tells us about the services that are not runnung. Helpfull for troubleshooting.
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get-command -noun add*
will show all commands with noune "add"
get-command -verb test*
will show all commands with verb "test"
get-help test-servicehealth -examples
will privide help with examples regarding the specific command test-servicehealth
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gpresult /v command is very useful to check the gpo being applied and also to troubleshoot regarding GPO's.
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If you need to check the white space
Get-MailboxDatabase Database1 -Status | FL AvailableNewMailboxSpace
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto
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administrative share checking command:
You can see your shared folders by going to Start >Run > type fsmgmt.msc > Shared Folders
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to check the version of exchange
Get-Command Exsetup.exe | ForEach-Object {$_.FileVersionInfo}
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to check the mailbox whitespace
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto
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to check the version service pack sp of exchange
Get-ExchangeServer | select name,admindisplayversion
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which users are in which mailbox database on Exchange
Get-Mailbox | Sort database, name | Format-Table name, database
This one will give you all mailboxes on all databases listed in order
get-mailbox | sort database, name | format-table name, database
This one will give you all mailboxes on a specific database,
Get-MailboxDatabase *name_of_database* | Get-mailbox
This one will give you all the mailboxes sorted by size, largest first, in a given database or all databases and export to a text file on the C drive,
Get-MailboxDatabase "<insert database name or don’t enter one for all DB’s>" | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | ft displayname, totalitemsize, itemcount (optional | Select –first 25) >> C:\*name_of_file*.txt.
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To get a count of all mailboxes in the Exchange 2010 organization use the following command:
(Get-Mailbox).count
Note that if you know your organization has over 1000 mailboxes you need to make sure that the result size of the command output is not limited.
(Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited).count
Next, we can get a count of mailboxes per Exchange 2010 mailbox server.
Get-Mailbox | Group-Object -Property:ServerName | Select-Object name,count
We can also get a count of mailboxes per database in the Exchange organization.
Get-Mailbox | Group-Object -Property:Database | Select-Object name,count
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To get a count of all mailboxes in the Exchange 2010 organization use the following command:
(Get-Mailbox).count
Note that if you know your organization has over 1000 mailboxes you need to make sure that the result size of the command output is not limited.
(Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited).count
Next, we can get a count of mailboxes per Exchange 2010 mailbox server.
Get-Mailbox | Group-Object -Property:ServerName | Select-Object name,count
We can also get a count of mailboxes per database in the Exchange organization.
Get-Mailbox | Group-Object -Property:Database | Select-Object name,count
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