Powershell commands to interact with Microsoft Exchange

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Powershell Commands to Interact with Microsoft Exchange

Connect, via Powershell, to Exchange Server remotely

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://server.domain.dom/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos
import-pssession $session

Add Exchange Module

must already have Exchange Management Console installed

Exchange 2007

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin; 

Exchange 2010

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010;

Exchange 2013 & 2016

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn;

Force update of Global Address Book

Get-GlobalAddressList | update-GlobalAddressList
Get-AddressList | update-AddressList
Get-OfflineAddressBook | Update-OfflineAddressBook

Change search scope to Entire forest

Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true

Note: you can check the status by running ‘get-adserversettings’

Set auto reply for a user

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration USERNAME -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage "This account is no longer in use. Please direct all future correspondence to USERNAME@DOMAIN.COM" -ExternalMessage "This account is no longer in use. Please direct all future correspondence to USERNAME@DOMAIN.COM"

Set forward and delivery (so that auto reply can still work)

Set-Mailbox <alias> -ForwardingAddress <recipient> -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $True

List all users with specific pattern in Primary Email address

get-mailbox | select PrimarySmtpAddress | where {$_.PrimarysmtpAddress -like "*rolling*"}

List all email addresses

get-recipient -resultsize unlimited | select name, emailaddresses

List all Distribution Lists and Members

$dist = foreach ($group in (Get-DistributionGroup -Filter {name -like "*"})) {Get-DistributionGroupMember $group | Select @{Label="Group";Expression={$Group.Name}},@{Label="User";Expression={$_.Name}},SamAccountName} $dist | Sort Group,User | Export-csv C:\Services\DL-export.csv -NoTypeInformation

List all public folders

get-publicfolder -identity "\" -recurse

Email enable a public folder

Enable-MailPublicFolder -identity "\PublicFolderPath\PublicFolder"

note: If you want to rcv emails from the outside, you will have to allow anonymous to the public folder and via the DL

List all accounts with Forwarding Address set

Get-mailbox | select DisplayName,ForwardingAddress | where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $Null}

Note: make sure to “Change search scope to ‘Entire Forest’”

List all Exchange attributes in AD user account

Get-AdUser Username -Properties * | Select *MSExch*

Search all mailboxes for specific text string

The following would search all subject, body, and attachments for “9986” and collect results in “john.doe” mailbox in a folder called “cc-9986”

get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | search-mailbox -searchquery "9986" -targetmailbox "john.doe" -targetfolder "cc-9986"

Dynamic Distribution Lists

Create

Get Details

Get-DynamicDistributionGroup <name> | Format-List Name,RecipientFilter

Modify

  Set-DynamicDistributionGroup "Washington Management Team" -RecipientFilter {((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Title -like 'Director*' -or Title -like 'Manager*') -and (StateOrProvince -eq 'WA') -and (Alias -ne $null) -and -not (Name -like "FederatedEmail*"))}

List database and mail server of input list of users (pull from AD)

'Rohit','Prateek','Sumit','Ankit' | %{ Get-ADUser  -Filter {name -eq $_} -Properties *} | ft Name, @{name='Exchange DB';expression={(($_.HomeMDB).split(',')[0]).split('=')[1]}} ,@{name='Exchange HomeServer';expression={($_.msExchHomeServerName -split 'Servers/cn=')[1]}} -AutoSize

Note: make sure to “Change search scope to ‘Entire Forest’”