A collection of notes for a exchange administrator.

Public folder

Accept external mail to public folder

 Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –identity “\SpecificFolder” –User Anonymous –AccessRights CreateItems

Database

Check whitespace

Get-MailboxDatabase -status | select name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace
Get-PublicFolderDatabase -status | select name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace

Check mailboxes in database

Get-MailboxDatabase -Identity DB1 | Get-Mailbox

Mailbox size

Get-mailbox | get-mailboxstatistics | sort-object totalitemsize –descending | ft displayname,totalitemsize

Message tracking

Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start “01/01/2017” -End “01/30/2017” -Sender “user@domain.com” |Out-GridView

Export to pst

Start export

New-MailboxExportRequest –Mailbox “a.user” –FilePath \\127.0.0.1\c$\temp\a.user.pst

show progress

Get-MailboxExportRequest

clean up completed requests

Get-MailboxExportRequest | where {$_.status -eq “Completed”} | Remove-MailboxExportRequest