In Exchange 2007, it was actually quite difficult to determine the size of a mailbox database using PowerShell. The Get-MailboxDatabase
cmdlet did not return the size of the database, and instead, you had to use the cmdlet to determine the path to the EDB file and calculate the file size using the Get-Item
cmdlet or WMI. In Exchange 2010, determining this is very simple and the information can easily be retrieved using the Get-MailboxDatabase
cmdet. In this recipe, we will take a look at how to report on mailbox database size using the Exchange Management Shell.
To retrieve the total size for each mailbox database, use the following command:
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select-object Name,DatabaseSize
The output from this command might look something like this: