Exchange 2016 – move log files to another drive

July 26, 2019 · by · in Exchange 2016, PowerShell Commands, Tips and Tricks

I have just built a new Exchange 2016 server and the boot drive is starting to fill up quite quickly.  A lot of this is down to logging so I’m going to move the log files to another drive with…

Search Exchange Message Tracking Logs with a wildcard

January 2, 2015 · by · in Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, PowerShell Commands, Tips and Tricks

When using the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet you can’t use wildcards with the Sender or Recipient parameters.  Instead, I pipe the output of Get-MessageTrackingLog to Where-Object: Where-Object {$_.Recipients -Like *@gmail.com} The following PowerShell command will return all results from a server named…

Using the Export-ActiveSyncLog PowerShell command

Using the Export-ActiveSyncLog PowerShell command

May 13, 2013 · by · in Exchange 2010, PowerShell Commands, Tips and Tricks

Today I have used the Export-ActiveSyncLog PowerShell command for the first time.  I stumbled across it while troubleshooting an issue with a HTC handset that wasn’t downloading email.  The command parses the IIS logs and generates some CSV files that…

Query the message tracking log using PowerShell

March 18, 2013 · by · in Exchange 2010, PowerShell Commands, Troubleshooting

Using the Tracking Log Explorer GUI is fine for checking whether messages were sent or received but there is no way to export the results to a file.  That’s where the Get-MessageTrackingLog PowerShell command comes in, combined with the Export-CSV…