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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer
Book Image

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer

Overview of this book

We start with a set of recipes on core PowerShell concepts. This will provide you with a foundation for the examples in the book. Next, you'll see how to implement some of the common exchange management shell tasks, so you can effectively write scripts with this latest release. You will then learn to manage Exchange recipients, automate recipient-related tasks in your environment, manage mailboxes, and understand distribution group management within the Exchange Management Shell. Moving on, we'll work through several scenarios where PowerShell scripting can be used to increase your efficiency when managing databases, which are the most critical resources in your Exchange environment. Towards the end, you'll discover how to achieve Exchange High Availability and how to secure your environment, monitor the health of Exchange, and integrate Exchange with Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server, and Exchange Online (Office 365). By the end of the book, you will be able to perform administrative tasks efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Monitoring the disk space

It goes without saying that having enough disk free space is crucial for Exchange to function correctly. When a disk that is hosting one or more mailbox databases runs out of space, these databases get automatically dismounted and you will not be able to mount them until there is enough disk space, which can turn out to be another problem on its own.

In this recipe, you will learn how to easily check how much free space a database has using the shell.

How to do it...

To check how much free space a database copy (active or passive) has on a particular server, use the following cmdlet:

    Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus "DB01\TLEX1" | Select DiskTotalSpace, DiskFreeSpace, DiskFreeSpacePercent...