Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Chapter 16: Reporting, Maintenance, and Administration

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If you wanted to take this script even further you could put some logic in the report so that if

maintenance hadn ’ t run in two weeks or perhaps a backup hasn ’ t run in two days, the report would

highlight the problematic mailbox store in red to make it easier to distinguish. Rather than outputting

the data to the screen you could also create an object and store the data in it for additional parsing later.

You see an example of this later in this chapter.

Reporting Mailbox Size

A common task a messaging administrator performs is to report on the mailbox size of the user

population. This example shows how to report which mailboxes are close to the limit, and capture a list

of users who do not have limits assigned.

Get-MailboxStatistics returns a list of mailboxes and

statistics about those mailboxes.

Get-MailboxStatistics returns all mailboxes and the statistics for each. The results look something

like those in Figure 16 - 5 .

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Part IV: Automating Administration

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This may be useful if you want to manually go through a large list of mailboxes and the statistics. In this

case, you are looking for mailboxes that are approaching the ...