Find Mailbox Database Sizes
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize
List All Active Sync Devices and Export to CSV
Get-ActiveSyncDevice | select-object DeviceModel,FriendlyName,DeviceOS,UserDisplayName | sort-object devicemodel | export-csv C:\list123.csv
Adding BESAdmin Permissions for a Database (Blackberry)
All databases
Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission -User "BES_account" -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin
For a particular database
Get-MailboxDatabase "database_name" | Add-ADPermission -User "BES_account" -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin
Check Current Permissions (receive-as, send-as or ms-Exch-Store-Admin)
get-adpermission “Mailbox Database 1” | where-object {$_.extendedrights -like ‘receive-as’} | select user,extendedrights
get-adpermission “Mailbox Database 1” | where-object {$_.extendedrights -like ‘send-as’} | select user,extendedrights
get-adpermission “Mailbox Database 1” | where-object {$_.extendedrights -like ‘ms-Exch-Store-Admin’} | select user,extendedrights
Find Mailbox Size and Item Count for One User
Get-MailboxStatistics john.smith | select DisplayName, ItemCount, DeletedItemCount
View number of Calendar Items for a Particular User
Get-Mailbox John.Smith | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -FolderScope 'Calendar' | select Name, ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders
View number of Items per Folder for a Mailbox and Export to CSV
Get-Mailbox John.Smith | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | Where {$_.ItemsInFolder -gt 0} | Sort-Object -Property FolderPath -Descending | ft FolderPath,ItemsInFolder -Autosize > JohnMailbox.CSV
Find an Email Address
get-recipient -results unlimited | where {$_.emailaddresses -match "email_address"} | select name,emailaddresses,recipienttype
View White Space in a DB
In Exchnage 2010 Event ID 1221 is not logged when an online defrag runs so to find the amount of white space available in a database you need to run the command below.
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Select Servername, Name, AvailableNewMailboxSpace
View hidden System (Arbitration) Mailboxes
Across all Servers
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | fl Name,DisplayName,ServerName,Database,AdminDisplayVersion
If the commands above return no results, in multi-domain environments, you might need to change the scope to view objects in the entire forest.
Set-ADServerSettings –ViewEntireForest $true
For a Particular Database
Get-mailbox -Database “Mailbox Database 1" –Arbitration -DomainController dc1
Move an Arbitration Mailbox
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration -Database “Mailbox Database 1" | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase "Mailbox Database 2"
List User Mailboxes in a Database where the Mailbox is not SoftDeleted (moved), Sort by Size and Export to a Text File
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | Where { $_.DisconnectReason -ne "SoftDeleted" } | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending >> design.txt
List User Mailboxes in a Database and Sort by Size
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | select-object DisplayName, {$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()} | export-csv -path "c:\exportlist.csv"
Moving Mailboxes
Start a local move request for one user
New-MoveRequest -Identity 'john@lab.com' -TargetDatabase "Mailbox Database 2" -BadItemLimit 20
Start a local move request for many users
Import-CSV "C:\test.csv" | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase "Mailbox Database 2"
CSV file format
Identity
“John Smith”
“Jane Smith”
“Bob Jones”
…
View moves in progress and the percentage
Get-moverequest | get-moverequeststatistics
List All Mailboxes in a ‘Soft Deleted’ State in a Particular Database
When a users mailbox is moved the original mailbox on the source database is put into a soft deleted state. To save on space (rather than waiting for retention periods etc) you can manually deleted it.
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -Notlike $NULL} | Format-Table DisplayName, DisconnectDate, DisconnectReason –Wrap
or
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | Where { $_.DisconnectReason -eq "SoftDeleted" } | ft DisplayName, DisconnectReason
Delete a ‘Soft Deleted’ Mailbox.
Remove-StoreMailbox -Database "Mailbox Database 1" -Identity "John Smith" -MailboxState Softdeleted
Delete a ‘Soft Deleted Mailbox Without Prompt
Remove-StoreMailbox -Database "Mailbox Database 1" -Identity "John Smith" -MailboxState Softdeleted -Confirm:$false
Delete all ‘Soft Deleted’ Mailboxes in a Particular Database Without Prompts
$Mailboxes = Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq “SoftDeleted”}
$Mailboxes | foreach {Remove-StoreMailbox -Database $_.database -Identity $_.mailboxguid -MailboxState SoftDeleted -Confirm:$False}