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Get mailbox information in PowerShell

Get mailbox information in PowerShell - Microsoft Exchange Server Tutorial

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Get mailbox information in PowerShell

- [Instructor] One of the things that Exchange Admin center does not do well, is give us an overall view of what's happening in our Exchange organization. For instance, if we wanted to see all of our different mailboxes, see the size that they had, look at all all their email addresses all at once, you can't do that. You have to go into each individual account, double click, and look at the information. We can however use Powershell to do just that. And it makes administration so much easier. So, if we go to our Start button, go to Exchange, and the Exchange Management Shell, we get the Powershell version of the Exchange Management. Once we're in, we can type several different commands. One of those would would be the Get-Mailbox Result Size unlimited. And that's going to show us all of our mailboxes all at once. And here they all are. It tells us the server name they're installed, the alias, the name and any prohibit information as well. Let's do a similar command, but this time…

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