Frequently used Exchange Powershell Command

Remote Powershell to Exchange Server

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://exchange server fqdn/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos -Credential $UserCredential

Import-PSSession $Session

Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true

• Adding IP to anonymous relay

$RecvConn = Get-ReceiveConnector "Relay Connector"
Get-Content .\IPList.txt | foreach {$RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += "$_"}
Set-ReceiveConnector "Relay Connector" -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges

From <http://www.gabrielmatteson.com/index.php/howto-add-multiple-ips-to-exchange-receive-connector-cli/>

• Get-ReceiveConnector "ExchangeServer\RelayName" | Select -ExpandProperty RemoteIPRanges

$RecvConn = Get-ReceiveConnector ExchangeServer\RelayName"

$RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += "10.10.0.10"

Set-ReceiveConnector ExchangeServer\RelayName" -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges

• Account lockout

Get-Aduser uateimcognos -Properties *|select name,SamAccountName,PasswordExpired,Enabled, LockedOut, whenCreated,DisplayName,PasswordLastSet,LastLogonDate, AccountLockoutTime,  PasswordNeverExpires

Get-ADUser gakumar -Properties * | Select-Object LockedOut

• Password Expiry

Get-ADUser Alice –Properties "DisplayName", "msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed" | Select-Object -Property "Displayname", @{Name="ExpiryDate";Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_."msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed")}}

• Service re-start on Exchange servers

Invoke-Command -ComputerName ExchangeServer {Restart-Service MSExchangeDelivery, MSExchangeSubmission, MSExchangeTransport -Force -PassThru}

• Service re-start on Exchange servers via input file

$servers = Get-content D:\Temp\input.txt

Foreach($server in $servers){Invoke-Command {Get-Service OR Restart-Service OR Stop-Service  -ComputerName $server MSExchangeDelivery,MSExchangeSubmission,MSExchangeTransport}}Format-Table Name,Status,MachineName -AutoSize

• Scanning eventlog across multiple servers

Start-Transcript

$StartTime = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)

Get-Content C:\tools\servers.txt | Foreach-Object{

    Get-WinEvent -ComputerName $_ -MaxEvents 500 -FilterHashTable @{LogName='System'; ID=6008; StartTime=$StartTime} | Select-Object MachineName,TimeCreated,LevelDisplayName,ProviderName,ID,Message

}

• Stop services on multiple servers

'nodename','nodename','nodename' | foreach{Invoke-Command {Stop-Service MSExchangeHM,MSExchangeHMRecovery -Force -PassThru} -computername $_} | Format-Table Name,Status,MachineName -AutoSize

• Start services on multiple servers

'nodename','nodename','nodename' | foreach{Invoke-Command {Start-Service MSExchangeHM,MSExchangeHMRecovery} -computername $_} | Format-Table Name,Status,MachineName -AutoSize

• Disable service on multiple servers

'nodename','nodename','nodename' | foreach{Invoke-Command {Set-Service MSExchangeHMRecovery -StartupType Disabled } -computername $_} | Format-Table Name,Status,MachineName -AutoSize

• Enable Automatic service on multiple servers

'nodename','nodename','nodename' | foreach{Invoke-Command {Set-Service MSExchangeHMRecovery -StartupType Automatic} -computername $_} | Format-Table Name,Status,MachineName -AutoSize

• To get all the DB's mounted or not

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft Name, Server, Mounted

List of all databases

Get-MailboxDatabase * -Status | Sort-Object -Descending {$_.databasesize} | ft server, name, databasesize, *newmail* -AutoSize

Disconnected mailbox

Get-ExchangeServer | Where-Object {$_.IsMailboxServer –eq $true} | ForEach-Object { Get-MailboxStatistics -Server $_.Name | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate –notlike ‘’}} | select displayname, database | export-csv c:mailboxes.csv

DL

get-content c:\temp\dls.txt | Get-DistributionGroup | select-object Name, AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom, RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled | Export-Csv c:\temp\dlexport.csv

Check if the user is enabled for ActiveSync from EMC

Get-CASMailbox -Identity alias | select DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress, ActiveSyncEnabled, ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceIDs | format-list

Set-CASMailbox -Identity alias  -ActiveSyncEnabled $true

Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics -Mailbox alias