Senin, 16 November 2015

Missing the Message Tracking Log Explorer in Exchange 2013? Not anymore…


Exchange 2013 has removed a number of user interfaces that existed in Exchange 2010, one of them being the Message Tracking toolbox utility:
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In Exchange 2013 you can search for an individual messages in the Exchange Control Panel (https://servername/ecp) by selecting mail flow > delivery reports. But this tool requires you to specify the source mailbox and limits the answers somewhat, especially if your administrators mailbox is still on Exchange 2010 and you used https://servername/ecp/?exchclientver=15 to access Exchange 2013 ECP:
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If you want to search across lots of mailboxes then your options are limited to Exchange Management Shell and using PowerShell. And with the considerably increase in internal monitoring emails that get sent around inside Exchange 2013, the logs are busy with all the Delivery Probe emails:
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Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start “Nov 2 2012”
So to the rescue comes a PowerShell 2.0 feature called Out-GridView. To run a message tracking log in a user interface start in Exchange Management Shell with a simple Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet and output the results to Out-GridView
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Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “Nov 2 2012” | Out-GridView
Now that you have the results in a grid you can add filtering, for example the below shows the tracking logs on my server once I filter out all the “probe” emails that are used by the Managed Availability feature to ensure that the server is operating correctly:
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So although you need a bit of a command to start with, Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “Nov 2 2012” | Out-GridView, and need to include –ResultSize Unlimited to ensure you have all the results before you start filtering, this is a way to reduce some of the time to do tracking logs as the filtering and scrolling/resizing and ordering steps are managed for you which you do not get in the shell.
And of course, there are loads of things you can use Out-GridView for in Exchange 2013. Some of these include Get-Mailbox, Get-MailboxDatabase, Get-whatever you like that returns multiple rows of data.

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