Important Exchange PowerShell Commands

Without knowing Exchange PowerShell commands it is quite difficult to administer Exchange. So following are the few important PowerShell commands.

To start with I will add few but will be adding many more commands in coming days.

About DAG:

• How to view the information about DAG including the names of the servers in DAG, current active manger and witness directory:

            Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup  –Identity   “<DAGname>”   -status  |  Format-List

• Remember that dismounting an active database is not a failover.
• How to know if the active database and passive database are replicated properly or not and how to check the status of the static snapshot

            Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus   -Identity  <Mailboxname> (not the server  name)

About CAS Array: 

• Find the name of the CAS Array/Server name specific to a Mailbox

            Get-mailboxdatabase      <databasename>     |    fl     rpcclientaccessserver

• Creating a CAS Array:

            New-ClientAccessArray –Name ‘<array name>’ -FQDN “<CasArrayName> ” -Site ‘<sitename>’

• Setting the mailbox to a CAS Array

            Set-Mailboxdatabase -Identity ‘<databasename>’ -RPCClientAccessServer ‘<CASArrayname>’

• 
  Finding all the CAS arrays in Exchange organization

            Get-ClientAccessArray

About HT:

• Find all the exchange servers and their Sites information

            Get-ExchangeServer | Select  Name,  Site