Category: Exchange Server 2013

Some handy commands for Microsoft Exchange Server on-premise – a growing list…

List all mailboxes across all databases:

Get-Mailbox

This doens’t include system & arbitration mailboxes.

 

List all arbitration mailboxes across all databases:

Get-Mailbox -Arbitration

This doesn’t include user or resource mailboxes.

 

List all mailbox databases:

Get-MailboxDatabase

 

Move a single mailbox to another mailbox database:

New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase <databaseName> -Identity <mailboxID>

Notes:

• The mailbox identity can be in quote marks
• The mailbox identity can be one of the following:
  • GUID
  • Distinguished name (DN)
  • Domain\Account
  • User principal name (UPN)
  • LegacyExchangeDN
  • SMTP address
  • Alias

 

Get the current status of all mailbox move requests:

Get-MoveRequest -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MoveRequestStatistics

 

Get the current status of a single mailbox move request:

Get-MoveRequest -Identity "john.doe@example.com" | Get-MoveRequestStatistics

 

Remove completed mailbox move requests:

Get-MoveRequest -MoveStatus Completed | Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false

 

Resume all suspended mailbox move requests:

Get-MoveRequest -MoveStatus Suspended | Resume-MoveRequest

 

 

I recently had an issue where through ECP I was unable to activate a new Exchange server 2019 I was building. I believe my issue may have been I was logged into the ECP of an older Exchange (2016) server as the 2019 server’s ECP wasn’t yet accessible.

In any case, you can use this command to activate Exchange servers from the Exchange Powershell:

Set-ExchangeServer -Identity MyNewExchangeServer -ProductKey 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345

Once this has been successfully issued, you will need to restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.