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One-Liner Wednesday January 18, 2023

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Do you use 365? Ever needed a quick list of all your users and their mailbox size? What about having it nicely formatted? Or do you only want to see a certain size mailbox? This quick one-liner is a good starting point.

Get-EXOMailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-EXOMailboxStatistics | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Export-Excel -Path C:\scripts\MailboxSizes.xlsx -AutoSize

What this does is uses the current way to get a 365 mailbox(Get-mailbox is deprecated), grabs all the mailboxes, selects only the Display name, amount of emails, and total size of their mailbox. It will then put the largest mailbox at the top and smallest at the bottom. After all of that, it exports it to an excel file that you can manipulate how you like. If you haven’t already used Doug Finke’s ImportExcel module, I’d recommend it to get creative with your formatting without ever opening Excel to format. You could add it so all mailboxes over a certain size are a certain color.

Hope this helps let me know if you expand on this even if its not a one liner, I’d love to see!

Read-Only Friday October 21, 2022

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It’s Friday, so you know what that means!

I like todays, because it’s another one of those it’s easy, but we either forget to check or believe it’s working but it may not be.

What is it? Event logging and dashboards. I’ll admit the dashboard part isn’t easy, but the event logging is. And I’m not just talking about your scripts(which you should be adding event logging to them when possible), I’m talking about any of your infrastructure that you manage. Even if you have alerting on, how do you know the alerting is actually working? Maybe your script or application you are using to go through the logs has an update but you don’t see it since you haven’t checked it in a month thinking it just works?

It’s always better to be proactive than reactive. Also while going through the logs you may find something else you want to start alerting for. Maybe you adding a new feature to your firewall or you added a print server and you want to setup alerting for those?

Hope you take out some time today and go through your logs, and if you’ve done that, do you have dashboards and/or alerting in place? If so, check those as well, and see if there is anyway you could improve it.

What scripts/modules/applications do you use to manage your event logs and/or create dashboards with?