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Show Exchange Whitespace / Retained Items and Deleted Mailbox Space in Powershell with flashy visuals

Each night most Exchange servers will run a scheduled maintenance operation which among other things does an online de-fragmentation of the Exchange Store, and removes deleted items and mailboxes that are past the stores configured retention periods. The result of these operations are logged to the event log with some interesting information about how much whitespace the online defrag operation recovered, the size of the retained items and retained deleted mailboxes remaining in the store. I've used these before in VBS here to do this in powershell is pretty easy. Lets jump into some code samples this is how you can get the whitepace in a Exchange store by querying the event logs via WMI for 1221 Event Log ids and then parsing the Size out of the event log message.

$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer servername -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '1221' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$esEndString = $mbnamearray[2].indexof("megabytes ")-6
[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime($_.TimeGenerated).ToString() + " " + $mbnamearray[1] + " " + $mbnamearray[2].Substring(5,$esEndString) + " MB"

}

For the Retained items you can do the following

$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer servername -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '1207' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$enditem = $mbnamearray[2].Substring($mbnamearray[2].indexof("End:"))
$esize = $enditem.SubString($enditem.indexof("items")+7,$enditem.indexof(" Kbytes")-($enditem.indexof("items")+7))
[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime($_.TimeGenerated).ToString() + " " + $mbnamearray[1] + " " + [math]::round(($esize/1024),2) + " MB"

}

For deleted Mailboxes you can do the following

$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer servername -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '9535' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$retMbs = $mbnamearray[2].Substring($mbnamearray[2].indexof("have been removed."))
$retMbsSize = $retMbs.Substring(($retMbs.indexof("(")+1),$retMbs.indexof(")")-($retMbs.indexof("(")+1)).Replace(" KB","")
[System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime($_.TimeGenerated).ToString() + " " + $mbnamearray[1] + " " + [math]::round(($retMbsSize/1024),2) + " MB"

}

Okay so to put these little snippiets into something a whole lot more usefull by producing a Report that will first go out and grab the mailbox/public folder store sizes then grab the Whitespace, RetainedItems sizes and retained deleted Mailbox sizes and put them into a Datagrid and display them in a Winform. Also following on from last week we can then graph this data the first graph is a pie graph that show the percentage of space used across all stores on the server. Then the second graph is a stacked bar chart that compares all the parameters that where measured across all stores on a server. The below Pic shows what I mean


The graphs are generated using Google Charts and the picture Control Image location trick i talked about last week. This script uses straight ADSI and WMI so will work on either Exchange 2003 and 2007. I've put a download of this script here the code itself looks like

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms")

$snServerName = "servername"
$StoreFileSizes = @{ }
$StoreWhitespace = @{ }
$StoreRetainItemSize = @{ }
$StoreDeletedMailboxSize = @{ }
$hcHourCount = @{ }
$root = [ADSI]'LDAP://RootDSE'
$cfConfigRootpath = "LDAP://" + $root.ConfigurationNamingContext.tostring()
$configRoot = [ADSI]$cfConfigRootpath
$searcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($configRoot)
$searcher.Filter = '(&(objectCategory=msExchExchangeServer)(cn=' + $snServerName + '))'
$searchres = $searcher.FindOne()
$snServerEntry = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.directoryentry
$snServerEntry = $searchres.GetDirectoryEntry()




$adsiServer = [ADSI]('LDAP://' + $snServerEntry.DistinguishedName)
$dfsearcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($adsiServer)
$dfsearcher.Filter = "(objectCategory=msExchPrivateMDB)"
$srSearchResults = $dfsearcher.FindAll()
foreach ($srSearchResult in $srSearchResults){
$msMailStore = $srSearchResult.GetDirectoryEntry()
$sgStorageGroup = $msMailStore.psbase.Parent
if ($sgStorageGroup.msExchESEParamBaseName -ne "R00"){
$edbfile = [WMI]("\\" + $snServerName + "\root\cimv2:CIM_DataFile.Name='" + $msMailStore.msExchEDBFile + "'")
$StoreFileSize = [math]::round($edbfile.filesize/1048576,0)
$exStoreName = ($sgStorageGroup.Name.ToString() + "\" + $msMailStore.Name.ToString())
$StoreFileSizes.Add($exStoreName,$StoreFileSize)
}
}
"Finshed Mailstores"
$dfsearcher.Filter = "(objectCategory=msExchPublicMDB)"
$srSearchResults = $dfsearcher.FindAll()
foreach ($srSearchResult in $srSearchResults){
$msMailStore = $srSearchResult.GetDirectoryEntry()
$sgStorageGroup = $msMailStore.psbase.Parent
if ($sgStorageGroup.msExchESEParamBaseName -ne "R00"){
$edbfile = [WMI]("\\" + $snServerName + "\root\cimv2:CIM_DataFile.Name='" + $msMailStore.msExchEDBFile + "'")
$StoreFileSize = [math]::round($edbfile.filesize/1048576,0)
$exStoreName = ($sgStorageGroup.Name.ToString() + "\" + $msMailStore.Name.ToString())
$StoreFileSizes.Add($exStoreName,$StoreFileSize)
}
}
"Finshed Public Folder Stores"
$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer $snServerName -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '1221' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$esEndString = $mbnamearray[2].indexof("megabytes ")-6
if ($StoreWhitespace.Containskey($mbnamearray[1]) -eq $false){
$StoreWhitespace.Add($mbnamearray[1],$mbnamearray[2].Substring(5,$esEndString))
}
}
"Finished WhiteSpace"
$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer $snServerName -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '1207' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$enditem = $mbnamearray[2].Substring($mbnamearray[2].indexof("End:"))
$esize = $enditem.SubString($enditem.indexof("items")+7,$enditem.indexof(" Kbytes")-($enditem.indexof("items")+7))
if ($StoreRetainItemSize.Containskey($mbnamearray[1]) -eq $false){
$StoreRetainItemSize.Add($mbnamearray[1],[math]::round(($esize/1024),0))
}

}
"Finshed Retained Items"
$WmidtQueryDT = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDmtfDateTime([DateTime]::UtcNow.AddDays(-3))
Get-WmiObject -computer $snServerName -query ("Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='Application' and Eventcode = '9535' and TimeWritten >='" + $WmidtQueryDT + "'") |
foreach-object{
$mbnamearray = $_.message.split("`"")
$retMbs = $mbnamearray[2].Substring($mbnamearray[2].indexof("have been removed."))
$retMbsSize = $retMbs.Substring(($retMbs.indexof("(")+1),$retMbs.indexof(")")-($retMbs.indexof("(")+1)).Replace(" KB","")
if ($StoreDeletedMailboxSize.Containskey($mbnamearray[1]) -eq $false){
$StoreDeletedMailboxSize.Add($mbnamearray[1],[math]::round(($retMbsSize/1024),0))
}

}
"Finished Deleted Items"
$Dataset = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$ssTable = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$ssTable.TableName = "TrackingLogs"
$ssTable.Columns.Add("Storage Group")
$ssTable.Columns.Add("Store Name")
$ssTable.Columns.Add("EDB (MB)",[int])
$ssTable.Columns.Add("WhiteSpace (MB)",[int])
$ssTable.Columns.Add("Retained (MB)",[int])
$ssTable.Columns.Add("Deleted (MB)",[int])
$Dataset.tables.add($ssTable)

$i = 0
$TitleBlock = "Mailboxes" + "|" + "Public Folders" + "|" + "WhiteSpace" + "|" + "Retained Items" + "|" + "Deleted Mailboxes"
$lval = 0
$mbsize = 0
$pfsize = 0
$wsSize = 0
$risize = 0
$dmsize = 0
$lval = 0
$valueBlockbc = ""
$valueBlockbc1 = ""
$valueBlockbc2 = ""
$valueBlockbc3 = ""
$valueBlockbc4 = ""
$TitleBlockbc1 = ""
$dscale = ""
$StoreFileSizes.GetEnumerator() | sort name -descending | foreach-object {
$snames = $_.key.split("\")
if ($StoreDeletedMailboxSize.containskey($_.key)){
$cmdsize = ([INT]$StoreWhitespace[$_.key] + [INT]$StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key] + [INT]$StoreDeletedMailboxSize[$_.key])
$mbsize = + ($_.Value - $cmdsize)
$dmsize = $dmsize + $StoreDeletedMailboxSize[$_.key]
$ssTable.Rows.Add($snames[0],$snames[1],[math]::round(($_.Value),2),$StoreWhitespace[$_.key],$StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key],$StoreDeletedMailboxSize[$_.key])
if ($valueBlockbc -eq ""){$valueBlockbc = $mbsize.ToString()
$valueBlockbc1 = $StoreWhitespace[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc2 = $StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc3 = $StoreDeletedMailboxSize[$_.key].ToString() }
else {$valueBlockbc = $valueBlockbc + "," + $mbsize.ToString()
$valueBlockbc1 = $valueBlockbc1 + "," + $StoreWhitespace[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc2 = $valueBlockbc2 + "," + $StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc3 = $valueBlockbc3 + "," + $StoreDeletedMailboxSize[$_.key].ToString()
}
}
else{
$pfsize = $pfsize + ($_.Value - ([INT]$StoreWhitespace[$_.key] + [INT]$StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key]))
$ssTable.Rows.Add($snames[0],$snames[1],[math]::round(($_.Value),2),$StoreWhitespace[$_.key],$StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key],0)
if ($valueBlockbc -eq ""){$valueBlockbc = $pfsize.ToString()
$valueBlockbc1 = $StoreWhitespace[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc2 = $StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc3 = "0" }
else {$valueBlockbc = $valueBlockbc + "," + $pfsize.ToString()
$valueBlockbc1 = $valueBlockbc1 + "," + $StoreWhitespace[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc2 = $valueBlockbc2 + "," + $StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key].ToString()
$valueBlockbc3 = $valueBlockbc3 + ",0"}
}
if ($TitleBlockbc1 -eq ""){$TitleBlockbc1 = $snames[1]}
else {$TitleBlockbc1 = $snames[1] + "|" + $TitleBlockbc1}
$wsSize = $wsSize + $StoreWhitespace[$_.key]
$risize = $risize + $StoreRetainItemSize[$_.key]
if ($dscale -eq "") {$dscale = "0," + $_.Value}
else {$dscale = $dscale + "|0," + $_.Value}
if ($lval -lt $_.Value) {$lval = $_.Value}



}
$valueBlock = $mbsize.ToString() + "," + $pfsize.ToString() + "," + $wssize.ToString() + "," + $risize.ToString() + "," + $dmsize.ToString()
$csString = "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=370x120&chds=0," + $lval + "&chd=t:" + $valueBlock + "&chl=" + $TitleBlock + "&chco=0000ff,00ff00,ff0000,FFFFFF,000000"
$csString
$csString1 = "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bhs&chs=850x350&chd=t:" + $valueBlockbc + "|" + $valueBlockbc1 + "|" + $valueBlockbc2 + "|" + $valueBlockbc3 +"&chds=0," + $lval + "&chxt=x,y&chxr=" + "&chxr=0,0," + ($lval+20) + "&chxl=1:|" + $TitleBlockbc1 + "&chdl=MailStorage|WhiteSpace|RetainedItems|DeletedMailboxes&chco=4d89f9,ff0000,c6d9fd,000000"
$csString1
$form = new-object System.Windows.Forms.form
$form.Text = "Server Store Size Report"

#add Picture box

$pbox = new-object System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox
$pbox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(615,10)
$pbox.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(380,150)
$pbox.ImageLocation = $csString
$form.Controls.Add($pbox)

$pbox1 = new-object System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox
$pbox1.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,320)
$pbox1.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(1000,350)
$pbox1.ImageLocation = $csString1
$form.Controls.Add($pbox1)

# Add DataGrid View

$dgDataGrid = new-object System.windows.forms.DataGridView
$dgDataGrid.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,10)
$dgDataGrid.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(600,300)
$dgDataGrid.ColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode = [System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode]::AutoSize
$dgDataGrid.AutoSizeColumnsMode = [System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode]::Fill
$form.Controls.Add($dgDataGrid)
$dgDataGrid.DataSource = $ssTable

$form.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(1000,600)

$form.topmost = $true
$form.Add_Shown({$form.Activate()})
$form.ShowDialog()

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