Exchange Console Commands

I have been managing a Exchange server since Exchange 2003. Current on 2010 and planning on upgrading to 2013 in the next month or so. Over the years I’ve been collecting snippets of useful commands which have served me well so here is my go to list. In almost all examples anything being exported/imported is using a directory called c:\ExFiles and in my examples the server is EXServer. Replace (alias) in all examples with the actual mailbox alias:

Export out Mailboxes as PST

Export list of all mailboxes by alias
Get-Mailbox| Select Alias | Export-CSV C:\ExFiles\Alias.csv

Export mailboxes based on a csv list:
foreach ($i in (Import-Csv C:\ExFiles\Alias.csv)) { New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $i.Alias -FilePath "\\EXServer\c$\ExFiles\$($i.Alias).pst" }

Export individual mailboxes:
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox (alias) -FilePath "\\EXServer\c$\ExFiles\(alias).pst"

Export out only Calendar items from a mailbox then import them into another mailbox

Export calendar items from a mailbox:
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox (alias) -FilePath \\EXServer\c$\ExFiles\TempPSTFile.pst -IncludeFolders "#Calendar#"

Import calendar items to a mailbox:
New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox (alias) -FilePath \\EXServer\c$\ExFiles\TempPSTFile.pst -IncludeFolders "#Calendar#"

Check Import/Export commands and clear then

Check import status:
Get-MailboxImportRequest

Check export status:
Get-MailboxExportRequest

Clear completed import requests:
Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxImportRequest

Clear completed export requests:
Get-MailboxExportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

Retention Policy Commands

Get all user mailboxes without a retention policy
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -RecipientTypeDetails "UserMailbox" | Where-Object {$_.RetentionPolicy -eq $null}

Assign the default retention policy to all mailboxes without one
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -RecipientTypeDetails "UserMailbox" | Where-Object {$_.RetentionPolicy -eq $null} | Set-Mailbox -RetentionPolicy "Default Archive and Retention Policy"

User Permissions

Export out a list of users who have access to other mailboxes other then their own
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxPermission | where {$_.user.tostring() -ne "NT AUTHORITY\SELF" -and $_.IsInherited -eq $false} | Select Identity,User,@{Name='Access Rights';Expression={[string]::join(', ', $_.AccessRights)}} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\ExFiles\mailboxpermissions.csv

Remove a users permission from all mailboxes
Get-Mailbox | Remove-MailboxPermission -User (UserID) -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All

Remove a users permission to a single mailbox
Remove-MailboxPermission -Identity (alias) -User (UserID) -AccessRights ReadPermissions -InheritanceType All

Mailbox and Database Information

Get the overall status of each database:
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto

Export out the size of each mailbox in a database:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Export-CSV C:\ExFiles\MBSizes1.csv

Get size of a single mailbox
Get-MailboxStatistics -identity alias | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize

Deleting Items

Delete all disabled mailboxes:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database 1" | where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | foreach {Remove-StoreMailbox -Database $_.database -Identity $_.mailboxguid -MailboxState Disabled}

Delete a individual disabled mailbox:
Remove-StoreMailbox -Database "Mailbox Database 1" -Identity (alias) -MailboxState SoftDeleted

Delete recoverable deleted items based on a alias list
foreach ($i in (Import-Csv C:\ExFiles\alias.csv)) { Search-Mailbox -Identity $i.alias -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent }

Delete all recoverable deleted items
Search-Mailbox –identity (alias) –SearchDumpsterOnly –DeleteContent

Hopefully these help someone out as much as they have me.

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