10 Newly Added PowerShell Cmdlets for Exchange 2013

Some Exchange Administrators do the perfect job with the combination of cmdlets on Server, that’s why Microsoft is increasing the new cmdlets in Exchange server with the every new release. There are 187 Powershell cmdlets in Exchange Server 2013 alone. With the latest product release of 2012-2013 cycle, Microsoft has added lot of new Powershell cmdlets in Exchange 2013 to help Administrators. So if you’re an Exchange Administrator who is planning to deploy an Exchange 2013 Server, these 10 newly added Powershell commands you should definitely need to know about-

1. Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense

By running this cmdlets you can get the licensing report information of Exchange Server. You will receive both reports by running Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense command, Enterprise and Standard edition, and CAL license for Exchange Server 2013. 

2. Get-HealthReport  

You can check the health report of the any component of Exchange 2013. For example, run the below cmdlets to determine the health report of OWA-

Get-HealthReport –InputEntries OWA –InputObject Maintenance

This command will return you OWA health report by exporting different information.

3. Redirect-Message

Messaging in queue is the very usual problem in Exchange Server that resides on users mailboxes. If you’re getting this with a mailbox server, you can run Redirect-Message Powershell to remove queue from the current mailbox server and add the pending queue to another queue on a healthy Exchange mailbox server.

You only need to source and destination server names to execute this shell command-

Redirect-Message –Server –Target

4. Test-MigrationServerAvailability

Exchange Server is aimed to work as larger distributed application, so businesses might have cloud mailboxes, on-premises mailboxes, and mailboxes which reside in external AD forests. The Test-MigrationServerAvailability command helps to confirm that current Exchange version can communicate with external server before trying a migration process.

5. Get-MobileDevice

By running the command, an Exchange administrator can make a list of all mobile devices which are associated with the current mailbox. E.g. run the below cmdlets to get the list of mobile devise associated with THOMAS mailbox.

Get-MobileDevice –Mailbox "Thomas"

6. Get-MobileDeviceStatistics

Now Administrator can identify the issue with Exchange Active Sync, and can retrieve mobile device log files for analysis. 

Simply run the below Powershell script to identify mobile device statistics for THOMAS mailbox.

Get-MobileDeviceStatistics –Identity Thomas

7. Get-PartnerApplication

Execute the command to see the list of all registered partner application. SharePoint is the best example of partner application, as Exchange 2013 has introduced the concept of partner applications in Exchange server.  

8. Get-ServerHealth

Rather than check the health of selective competent in Exchange Server, Get-ServerHealth cmdlets helps to check the overall health of Exchange Server. You only need to provide the name of domain controller for recognize the Exchange server which you want to analyze. Below is the syntax for that-

Get-ServerHealth –Identity –DomainController

9. Set-ServerMonitor

You can monitor individual server by simply specifying the name of server and monitor.

E.g. Run the below cmdlets to enable the Maintenance monitor for Exchange server RXZ1

 

Set-ServerMonitor –Name Maintenance –Server RXZ1

10. New-PublicFolderMigrationRequest

If you’re upgrading to Exchange 2013 from previous version, Microsoft suggests you to migrate the public folders to Exchange Server 2013. For execute this cmdlets you only require source database and the .CSV file which contains exported public folder figures. (Run Export-PublicFolderStatistics.ps1 cmdlet to create .CSV file). Below is the syntax to execute the command-

New-PublicFolderMigrationRequest –SourceDatabase PF1 –CSVData (Get-Content C:\Data\CSVData.csv –Encoding Byte)

That’s it. However there are 200 newly added cmdlets in Exchange 2013 which helps administrator to make their job easier and faster, but these 10 you should definitely pay attention to if you’re an Exchange Administrator.

Good Luck,