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Dumping out the MailTips for all the recipients using EWS and Powershell

MailTip's are a feature in Exchange from 2010 that gives you extra information when sending a message. In a pervious post I showed how you can use these to get the Outlook of Office status for a user using MailTips in EWS. In this Post I have a sample for going through and dumping out all the MailTips for all the Recipients in Exchange (that are feed in using Get-Recipient to include Contacts, Distribution list and any other type of recipeint) and produces an output like
 
 

Because there are no classes in the EWS Managed API to use MailTips so I'm just using Raw SOAP to send the MailTips request and then parse the XML result that comes back. With MailTips you can only request a max of 100 results at a time so there is some code to split the request up in batches of 100 if there are more the 100 entries.

I've put a download of this script here the script looks like

## Get the Mailbox to Access from the 1st commandline argument

$MailboxName = $args[0]

$Script:rptCollection = @()
 

###CHECK FOR EWS MANAGED API, IF PRESENT IMPORT THE HIGHEST VERSION EWS DLL, ELSE EXIT
$EWSDLL = (($(Get-ItemProperty -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Path Registry::$(Get-ChildItem -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services'|Sort-Object Name -Descending| Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty Name)).'Install Directory') + "Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll")
if (Test-Path $EWSDLL)
    {
    Import-Module $EWSDLL
    }
else
    {
    "$(get-date -format yyyyMMddHHmmss):"
    "This script requires the EWS Managed API 1.2 or later."
    "Please download and install the current version of the EWS Managed API from"
    "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=255472"
    ""
    "Exiting Script."
    exit
    }
 
## Set Exchange Version  
$ExchangeVersion = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeVersion]::Exchange2013_SP1  
  
## Create Exchange Service Object  
$service = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService($ExchangeVersion)  
  
## Set Credentials to use two options are availible Option1 to use explict credentials or Option 2 use the Default (logged On) credentials  
  
#Credentials Option 1 using UPN for the windows Account  
$psCred = Get-Credential  
$creds = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($psCred.UserName.ToString(),$psCred.GetNetworkCredential().password.ToString())  
$service.Credentials = $creds      
  
#Credentials Option 2  
#service.UseDefaultCredentials = $true  
  
## Choose to ignore any SSL Warning issues caused by Self Signed Certificates  
  
## Code From http://poshcode.org/624
## Create a compilation environment
$Provider=New-Object Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
$Compiler=$Provider.CreateCompiler()
$Params=New-Object System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters
$Params.GenerateExecutable=$False
$Params.GenerateInMemory=$True
$Params.IncludeDebugInformation=$False
$Params.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.DLL") | Out-Null

$TASource=@'
  namespace Local.ToolkitExtensions.Net.CertificatePolicy{
    public class TrustAll : System.Net.ICertificatePolicy {
      public TrustAll() { 
      }
      public bool CheckValidationResult(System.Net.ServicePoint sp,
        System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate cert, 
        System.Net.WebRequest req, int problem) {
        return true;
      }
    }
  }
'@ 
$TAResults=$Provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource($Params,$TASource)
$TAAssembly=$TAResults.CompiledAssembly

## We now create an instance of the TrustAll and attach it to the ServicePointManager
$TrustAll=$TAAssembly.CreateInstance("Local.ToolkitExtensions.Net.CertificatePolicy.TrustAll")
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::CertificatePolicy=$TrustAll

## end code from http://poshcode.org/624
  
## Set the URL of the CAS (Client Access Server) to use two options are availbe to use Autodiscover to find the CAS URL or Hardcode the CAS to use  
  
#CAS URL Option 1 Autodiscover  
$service.AutodiscoverUrl($MailboxName,{$true})  
"Using CAS Server : " + $Service.url 

function DumpMailTips{ 
    param (
         $Mailboxes = "$( throw 'Folder Path is a mandatory Parameter' )"
    )
 process{

$expRequest = @"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Header><RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010_SP1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" />
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<GetMailTips xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
<SendingAs>
<EmailAddress xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">$MailboxName</EmailAddress>
</SendingAs>
<Recipients>
"@

foreach($mbMailbox in $Mailboxes){
 $expRequest = $expRequest + "<Mailbox xmlns=`"http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types`"><EmailAddress>$mbMailbox</EmailAddress></Mailbox>" 
}

$expRequest = $expRequest + "</Recipients><MailTipsRequested>All</MailTipsRequested></GetMailTips></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>"
$mbMailboxFolderURI = New-Object System.Uri($service.url)
$wrWebRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($mbMailboxFolderURI)
$wrWebRequest.KeepAlive = $false;
$wrWebRequest.Headers.Set("Pragma", "no-cache");
$wrWebRequest.Headers.Set("Translate", "f");
$wrWebRequest.Headers.Set("Depth", "0");
$wrWebRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
$wrWebRequest.ContentLength = $expRequest.Length;
$wrWebRequest.CookieContainer = New-Object System.Net.CookieContainer
$wrWebRequest.Timeout = 60000;
$wrWebRequest.Method = "POST";
$wrWebRequest.Credentials = $creds
$bqByteQuery = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($expRequest);
$wrWebRequest.ContentLength = $bqByteQuery.Length;
$rsRequestStream = $wrWebRequest.GetRequestStream();
$rsRequestStream.Write($bqByteQuery, 0, $bqByteQuery.Length);
$rsRequestStream.Close();
$wrWebResponse = $wrWebRequest.GetResponse();
$rsResponseStream = $wrWebResponse.GetResponseStream()
$sr = new-object System.IO.StreamReader($rsResponseStream);
$rdResponseDocument = New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$rdResponseDocument = New-Object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$rdResponseDocument.LoadXml($sr.ReadToEnd());
$Datanodes = @($rdResponseDocument.getElementsByTagName("m:MailTips"))

foreach($nodeVal in $Datanodes){
 $rptObj = "" | Select RecipientAddress,RecipientTypeDetails,PendingMailTips,OutOfOffice,CustomMailTip,MailboxFull,TotalMemberCount,ExternalMemberCount,MaxMessageSize,DeliveryRestricted,IsModerated
 $rptObj.RecipientAddress = $nodeVal.RecipientAddress.EmailAddress
 $rptObj.RecipientTypeDetails = $Script:emAray[$rptObj.RecipientAddress.ToLower()]
 $rptObj.PendingMailTips = $nodeVal.PendingMailTips."#text"
 $rptObj.OutOfOffice = $nodeVal.OutOfOffice.ReplyBody.Message
 $rptObj.CustomMailTip = $nodeVal.CustomMailTip."#text"
 $rptObj.MailboxFull = $nodeVal.MailboxFull."#text"
 $rptObj.TotalMemberCount = $nodeVal.TotalMemberCount."#text"
 $rptObj.ExternalMemberCount = $nodeVal.ExternalMemberCount."#text"
 $rptObj.MaxMessageSize = $nodeVal.MaxMessageSize."#text"
 $rptObj.DeliveryRestricted = $nodeVal.DeliveryRestricted."#text"
 $rptObj.IsModerated = $nodeVal.IsModerated."#text"
 $Script:rptCollection += $rptObj
}

}
}
$mbscn = @()
$Script:emAray = @{}
$rcps = Get-Recipient -ResultSize Unlimited 
$rcps | ForEach-Object {
 $Script:emAray.Add($_.PrimarySMTPAddress.ToString().ToLower(),$_.RecipientTypeDetails)
 $mbscn += $_.PrimarySMTPAddress.ToString()
 if($mbscn.count -gt 100){
  dumpmailtips -Mailboxes $mbscn
  $mbscn = @()
 }
}
if($mbscn.count -gt 0){
 dumpmailtips -Mailboxes $mbscn
}
$Script:rptCollection | Export-Csv -Path c:\temp\MailTipsDump.csv -NoTypeInformation
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