These are by far some of my favorite tools for AD management and compliment the Exchange 2007 PowerShell cmdlets very nicely. If one were so inclined you could write a very nice script to do just about anything with the combination of Quest and Exchange.

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Maybe your company has Exchange 2007 or maybe you are using Quest’s PowerShell commands for AD, either way if you haven’t had a chance to try out this FREE tool you are missing out.  The GUI has come in handy for me on several occasions but the real hidden gem here is the PowerGUI Script Editor.  This handy utility is worth it’s weight in code.  PowerPacks are available for:

• Active Directory
• Exchange
• Hyper-V
• WSUS
• SQL
• MOM/SCOM
• Windows Server
• VMWare
• Citrix
• …and more

Read about the latest update here…

Brought to my eyes by Paul Robichaux and written by Jason Sherry this script will capture a plethora of useful Exchange data.  Very helpful for planning an upgrade strategy or if you just want to know how your current Exchange environment is running.  To get the most accurate and useful data Jason recommends running the script as a scheduled task every day for three days.

The script will capture the following by default:

1. Exchange server in the forest

2. Version of all servers

3. Current size of all EDB and STM files, per storage group (SG)

4. Total mailbox size per SG

5. Total item count per SG

6. Current number of TLOGs sitting in the log directory for each SG

7. Total size difference based on mailbox size per SG from the last run

8. Total item count difference per SG from the last run

9. Mailbox count difference per SG from the last run

10. Size of each StoreDB EDB & STM, only collected on 1st run by default

Click here to get the script…