Comments on: Browsing Mailbox Databases in Exchange 2007 and 2010

By: johnson

johnson — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:13:16 +0000

Very very understandable… Nice and good keep it up

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:20:43 +0000

Sounds like you’ll need to knock up a script to combine the two pieces of data into one report

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:23:42 +0000

This works great! Worked the first time! I have different deparments on one database. After the export, I can sort by name, but I cannot get it to include the LDAP field “department”. This would help me GREATLY if I could export and sort by department to send out to the groups to clean up their mailboxes.

THANKS!

By: Cyrys

Cyrys — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:16:43 +0000

Very Great Script, it Worked Like Charm

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:29:51 +0000

Hi Julian, I’ve been running a lot of these scripts lately as I work on migration planning. Personally it doesn’t bother me, I like being able to kick off the script and find a nicely formatted CSV file at the end. I get it that not everyone sees it that way.

The capability is probably there (though the exact steps are beyond me right now) to automate the process such that it collects this data on a scheduled basis and makes it available in a graphical report that you can look at when needed. I’m sure if you dug around some of the PowerShell dedicates blogs and websites you’d see some useful tips along those lines.

By: Julian Milano

Julian Milano — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:19:05 +0000

I agree with Dan. What? Can’t the Exchange GUI run the Powershell commands here to create an easily accessible data output?

I have to now store all my scripts in text files and recall them when I need them then I have to modify the scripts and see what result I get.

I do love the 80s, but……………………

By: dan

dan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:40:08 +0000

“As you can see although it may seem less intuitive than the previous method of browsing through a GUI the Exchange Management Shell actually makes it much simpler and easier to gather information about the mailboxes in your organization”
You’ve got to be kidding? We’re now back in the 1980′s days of DOS, CPM and UNIX shell scripting. MS is not helping the everyday SMB sys admin, we’ve really got other things to do than figuring out cryptic scripts.
Nice work on the actual tutorial, well written and informative, keep it up.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:02:17 +0000

Hi Scott, remove the format-table part of the command, it should work then.

Get-MailboxDatabase “Mailbox Database 01″ | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | Export-Csv C:\mailboxes.csv

By: Scott K Swan

Scott K Swan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:56:51 +0000

No luck. Tried it letter-by-letter and space-by-space, and I still get the same results when I open the csv file. Everything works, but the “export” part of it. I will just use the display listing and go from there. That is still a big help.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:49:06 +0000

Hi Scott, I can’t seem to replicate your error. Perhaps type out the command manually in case something is going awry in copy/paste?