Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

I've been looking at rewriting some message tracking scripts and one the things that's helpfull when you are doing message tracking is having some nice flashy visuals to help you out. Now there are some nice 3rd party packages out there like powergadgets who will separate you from your money and also the WPF framework stuff that give you some charting functionality. But if you want something that's free and will work from any workstation/server that has powershell and a Internet connection then its hard to go past Google Charts . Once you work you way around the different URL options its pretty much just a matter of creating some code to build the URL. So to put this into something that is actually useful here's a couple of samples that first generate Rate information from the message tracking log files on Exchange 2003 using the wonder of WMI and on Exchange 2007 using the Exchange Management Shell get-messagetrackinglog cmdlet. The script itself is pretty simple it u...

If you haven’t been able to implement Mailbox quotas in your Exchange organization then you will probably find some users are using a large percentage of the used (or allocated space) in your Exchange database when compared to other users. If you work out this on a percentage basis this information can come in handy if you want to try to charge back to certain groups the cost of storing that information. E.g. you use this percentage of the resource so you pay this percentage of the cost (tell him he’s dreaming). I’ve put together a couple of scripts to help show this information as well as some other basic information about the user. The first couple of scripts show all the important information about a particular user. It takes one parameter which is the samaccountname and then does a AD Lookup and returns information about what Server the users mailbox is on what version of Exchange that mailserver is running what mailstore the mailbox is located in and what storage group that mailst...