Using PowerShell to Retrieve Exchange Mailbox Statistics for Office 365 Migrations

Recently, I’ve been working on trying to finish up a migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Office 365. There are potentially numerous mailboxes that aren’t used and those won’t be migrated to Office 365 because there’s no sense in paying for licensing for them. How do you determine what mailboxes are in use? First, use implicit remoting to load the Exchange cmdlets locally. Years ago, I would install the Exchange cmdlets locally, but it was brought to my attention that it’s unsupported, at least according to this article: Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported....

November 7, 2019 · 2 min · 276 words · Mike F. Robbins

Use PowerShell to Determine what Outlook Client Versions are accessing your Exchange Servers

Earlier this month I saw a blog article on The EXPTA {blog} about Reporting Outlook Client Versions Using Log Parser Studio and I thought I would show you a simple alternative using PowerShell that accomplishes the same task while giving you some additional flexibility. This simple PowerShell function can be used to parse the Exchange Server RPC logs. #Requires -Version 3.0 function Get-MrRCAProtocolLog { <# .SYNOPSIS Identifies and reports which Outlook client versions are being used to access Exchange....

September 18, 2014 · 6 min · 1104 words · Mike F. Robbins