Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Search Folders are a feature of Exchange that allows you to have a static search based on a particular criteria  across one or more folders in a Mailbox. They can serve a number of different functions within a Mailbox and are often used to provide some of the backend functionality of new features. None of the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets gives you  a good view of the SearchFolders in a Mailbox so EWS can be particular useful for this. Eg I've put a cmdlet together that will enumerate all the Search Folders in a Mailbox (or Archive is you interested in that) and produce a report of the folder number of Items and Size of those items that match the Search Folder criteria. It will produce a report such as I've put a copy of this script up on GitHub here https://github.com/gscales/Powershell-Scripts/blob/master/SearchFoldersEnums.ps1 To Run the script use Get-SearchFolders -MailboxName Mailbox@domain.com to Get Searchfolder from an Archive ...

Mailbox retention tag application and management are one of the more complex administrative tasks on Exchange from 2010 and one task scripting can be a great help with. With EWS there are two ways you can deal with retrieving the Retention Tags that have been applied to a Folder or Item. In 2013 and 2016,  EWS returns the retention tags applied to a folder or Item as a Strongly typed property which makes things easier to deal with. In Exchange 2010 you need to access the underlying extended properties for Retention tags (this will also work on 2013 and 2016 because the extended properties are the same). I've posted up a script module on GitHub here https://github.com/gscales/Powershell-Scripts/blob/master/ReportTagged.ps1  that can do this using the Extended properties so it will work on Exchange 2010 and up. Report-TaggedFolders  - Creates a Report of the FolderTag applied to each of the Folders in a Mailbox (if they are tagged). To get all the availbi...