1. The top ten PowerShell commands for Exchange
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The top ten PowerShell commands for Exchange
Steve Goodman
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MVP, Office Servers & Services
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2. The top ten PowerShell commands for Exchange
These are commands I couldn’t do without
Don’t worry - the top command is not Get-Mailbox
Hopefully some of the of the commands might surprise you….
And there’s a LOT to choose from…

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4. Get-Help Every Exchange admin needs a little help sometimes, right?
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Get-Help
Every Exchange admin needs a little help sometimes, right?
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5. Using Get-Help Get-Help New-Transportrule –Examples
Get-Help New-OWAVirtualDirectory -Online
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7. Get-Content Examine your log files. Watch them in real-time
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8. Using Get-Content Get-Content (file) –Tail 1 –Wait
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Using Get-Content
Get-Content (file) –Tail 1 –Wait
$File = Get-Content (file)
$File[1]
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10. Select-Object Pick what you need, nothing else 5/23/2018 7:15 AM
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Using Select-Object
Get-Mailbox | Select DisplayName, SamAccountName, UserPrincipalName, PrimarySMTPAddress
Get-MailboxStatistics –Database (DB) | Select DisplayName,TotalItemSize
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Start-Transcript
What was it I did to my Exchange Server the other day?
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14. Using Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript
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Using Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript
Start-Transcript
# Do all sorts of damage, but it’s OK because you had a change request approved
Stop-Transcript
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16. Test-NetConnection Still using Telnet to check ports are open?
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Test-NetConnection
Still using Telnet to check ports are open?
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17. Using Test-NetConnection
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Using Test-NetConnection
Test-NetConnection outlook.office365.com –Port 25
Test-NetConnection outlook.office365.com -Traceroute
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Export-CliXML
Keep your Exchange command output for later and play it again later!
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20. Using Import-CliXML and Export-CliXML
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Using Import-CliXML and Export-CliXML
Get-Mailbox –ResultSize Unlimited | Export-CliXML .\Mailboxes.XML
# Copy it somewhere else
Import-CliXML .\Mailboxes.XML
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Out-Gridview
View and manipulate your Exchange information from the command prompt – in a GUI!
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23. Using Out-GridView Get-Mailbox | Out-Gridview
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Using Out-GridView
Get-Mailbox | Out-Gridview
Get-ExchangeServer | Out-GridView
Get-User | Out-GridView
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foreach
Do something to each of the items in a list. To every mailbox, to every virtual directory, to every server..
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26. Using foreach $Mailboxes = get-mailbox
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Using foreach
$Mailboxes = get-mailbox
Foreach ($Mailbox in $Mailboxes) {
get-user –identity $mailbox.userprincipalname }
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28. Where Just get the information you need, from any command
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Where
Just get the information you need, from any command
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Using Where
Get-Mailbox | Where {$_. AddressPolicyEnabled –eq $False}
Get-ExchangeServer | Where {$_.Name –like “SG*”}
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Export-CSV
The key command for making it easy to generate reports and manipulate other date outside of Exchange
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Using Export-CSV
Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory | Select Server,InternalURL,ExternalURL | Export-Csv –NoTypeInformation .\EWSVirtualDirectories.CSV
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select DisplayName,TotalItemSize | Export-Csv –NoTypeInformation .\MailboxSizes.CSV
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33. What is YOUR top Powershell command for Exchange?
Thank you!
Hopefully these Powershell commands will make your life, as an Exchange admin a little easier
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What is YOUR top Powershell command for Exchange?

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