Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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When you run the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet, you must remember to use the -Status switch parameter or else the LastFullBackup property will be $null. In the previous example, we checked the last full backup for the DB1 database and piped the output to the Format-List (using the fl alias) cmdlet. When viewing the LastFullBackup for each database, you might find it helpful to pipe the output to the Select-Object cmdlet, as shown in the following screenshot:

In addition to simply checking the date, it may be useful to schedule this script to run daily and report on the databases that have not recently been backed up. For example, ...