I had to get a list of mailboxes that was created in the last one week. Though it is quite easy, I thought that I will share it anyway.
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {$_.WhenCreated –ge ((Get-Date).Adddays(-7))}
The above command will give you a list of all mailboxes that was created in the last one week, but may not bring the properties that you are looking for. Modify the command with the values you need. For example,
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {$_.WhenCreated –ge ((Get-Date).Adddays(-7))} | ft name, servername, database
You can export the result to a txt or csv file.
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {$_.WhenCreated –ge ((Get-Date).Adddays(-7))} | ft name, servername, database | Out-File C:mailboxes.txt
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {$_.WhenCreated –ge ((Get-Date).Adddays(-7))} | ft name, servername, database | Export-CSV c:mailboxes.csv
It is easy to extend the command to find a list of mailboxes that was created in the last one month. For the month of August, run
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month –eq 8} | ft name, servername, database
Note that the value of month takes an integer.
Piping the above command to Meaure-Object will give you the number of mailboxes that was created.
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month –eq 8} | Measure-Object
To get the list for the year 2009, run
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Year –eq 2009} | ft name, servername, database
It is amasing what Powershell can do for you.. Thanks for sharing
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Powershell is the future!
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Great tip, thanks for that!
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Thanks Paul.
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PowerShell does indeed rock, however that query is returning the date/time stamp when the user object was created not when the mailbox was created. If the mailbox always get's created right after the user account then that's good data. Unfortunately for me, I've got in some cases a few months before some user accounts get a mailbox.
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