Comments on: EMC – Where are Mailbox Total Items & Size (KB) Columns?

By: Kon

Kon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:57:13 +0000

Agree with Bucket – a lot of frustrations! MS was so proud of Exchange 2000/2003 – finally they got rid of two databases (AD and Exchange). Now they decided to return back to Exchange 5.5 era!??

By: Bucket O'Bits

Bucket O'Bits — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:22:13 +0000

I really don’t understand what Microsoft was thinking with some of their Exchange 2007 decisions.

MORE options=good
FEWER options=bad

So allowing people to do things via either a GUI or a command line is GOOD. But taking away things that they used to be able to do graphically and forcing them to do it via command line is BAD.

This is along the lines of the decision to take away the ability to create users with mailbox via ADUC. This generates more work for sysadmins–not less. It’s a step backwards.

Whomever made these design decisions has lost touch with Microsoft’s customers.

By: Finch

Finch — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:05:37 +0000

Tried it and it seems to list out all maiboxes from all stores and databases, even if I specify only the one database. Great for some purposes, but not all.

By: Exchange 2007 and mailboxes size list ?

Exchange 2007 and mailboxes size list ? — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:23:42 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:34:23 +0000

Thanks GoodThings. You know that is all anyone is looking for in the end.

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:33:47 +0000

The following version will export to a CSV file with just the mailbox name, mailbox size (in MB), item count, and sort it by mailbox size (descending):

Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, @{expression={$_.TotalItemSize.value.ToMB()}} | Export-CSV MailboxSizes.csv

By: Clueless

Clueless — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:09:32 +0000

Awesome!

Gee…this seems so simple…why, oh why, did M$ leave this out of the GUI?

On that note: are there any good 3rd party PowerShell GUI apps out there, or do I have to beg one of my programming buddies to write me one?

You know…something that would come with a bunch of these “missing” commands pre-loaded with the ability to create new ones, while presenting the whole she-bang to you with pretty cornflower blue buttons?

By: Prabhu

Prabhu — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:13:14 +0000

good Tip …keep it up with new articles in coming days…