This is post 3 in a series of 3 Exchange mini health assessment posts. The CAS role mini heath check post can be found here. The HUB mini health assessment post can be found here. The third PS1 script is a limited health assessment for the Mailbox role. The script runs through 4 functional areas:  core Exchange service status, Test mail flow, MAPI connectivity, and ExBPA (errors are exported to the report and warnings are displayed on screen). Once the data is collected, the results are ex... [More]

This is post 2 in a series of 3 Exchange mini health assessment posts. The CAS role mini heath check post can be found here. The Mailbox mini health assessment post can be found here. This script provides a limited health assessment for the HUB Transport role. The script runs through 3 functional areas:  core Exchange service status, Edge Sync Heath, and ExBPA (errors are exported to the report and warnings are displayed on screen). Once the data is collected, the results are exported to a... [More]

A few weeks back I was onsite with a customer that was experiencing some issues with their Exchange servers after applying the latest rollup the night before. After we resolved the problem, the customer asked for a solution to validate all core Exchange services were online after patching their Exchange servers. Since the customer has hundreds of Exchange servers, we knew the only good solution would be to automate the task so I decided to build a PowerShell script. What I have done is broken ... [More]

Did you ever want to get mailbox item size in Exchange 2003 based off users in a specific OU and not based off the mailbox server the users reside on? If so you’re in luck :). What I have done is add some code in a VBScript that will gather all the users in an OU and compare those users against a list of mailbox servers that are specified in the script. Most of the script’s content was taken from this site: http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm . Since the script is comparing user... [More]