Month: September 2011

Exchange 2010 Archive Mailbox Statistics PowerShell script

Here are some field notes from a recent Exchange 2010 Retention and Archive case. I have made a simple Exchange 2010 PowerShell script Get-ArchivedMBStats.ps1, that shows mailbox statistics for all mailboxes that have Online Archive enabled. It is great for following the progress of archiving of individual mailboxes. The output of the …

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Test sending mail to your SMTP connector using Powershell

As a consultant I often test SMTP connectors on Exchange.  There are several ways of doing this. There is the good old way of using telnet, ExchangePro has a great article describing the Telnet way of testing you SMTP connection: http://exchangeserverpro.com/how-to-send-email-via-telnet The other way of testing if a SMTP connector …

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Using Exchange MessageTracking with wildcards

Here are some field notes from a recent message tracking case. If you have to find all messages from one certain domain, that have entered your Exchange environment, this is possible using Exchange Management Shell and the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet. Run the following: Get-MessageTrackingLog -Server "ExchangeServerName" -Start "8/1/2011" -End "9/1/2011" -resultsize …

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