July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 54m
English
PowerShell is very flexible and gives you the ability to generate very detailed reports. When generating mailbox database statistics, we can utilize data returned from multiple cmdlets provided by the Exchange Management Shell. This recipe will show you an example of this, and you will learn how to calculate the average mailbox size per database using PowerShell.
To determine the average mailbox size for a given database, use the following one-liner:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database DB1 |
ForEach-Object {$_.TotalItemSize.value.ToMB()} |
Measure-Object -Average |
Select-Object –ExpandProperty AverageCalculating an average is as simple as performing some basic math, but ...