I have been tasked with writting a script to analyze our servers on a daily basis. I found this most excellent server inventory script that pulls virtually every conceivable value from a server.
Now, on our Exchange cluster, we've used Volume Mount Points for the resources. This means that a 9gb drive with eight 330gb folders (or mount points) to SAN storage. If I simply pull the drive freespace, I get ~6gb (local hard drive), even though the mount points each show over 100gb free.
The migration process used to move a number of mailboxes created a couple hundred dead mailboxes objects in our environment. Their mailbox information needed to be cleared before their mailboxes could be migrated to the server for the final time. To fix this, I looked into a script. First I found the script at TelnetPort25, here. This script goes through the entire environment and purges all deleted and non-system mailboxes.
I have been working on a number of projects lately where I need to touch most of the servers in our environment; be it changing DNS servers, or querying event logs, I needed a way to get every live server out there.
The attached script will query AD for all servers, then if pingable, it will attempt to gather more info via WMI. The final result is output to a CSV file in the C:\ root of the local computer.
When you are looking for something, like a piece of hardware, and you don't know where to start looking, it is always useful to have a good set of tools.
For example, I wanted to find what IP address that a new UPS device was using. I could not locate it in the DHCP tables and figured it must have a static IP address. The administration tools could not access it via the USB cable, so I needed to brute force search for the IP address. What I would do for an IP scanner right then? Code one!
When running through the latest version of the Exchange calendar update process, it has you assign permissions to all mailboxes on the server. To modify all the mailboxes, you need to provide a list of distinguished names (DN) for each mailbox. Unfortunately this is not simply the DistiguishedName field that you would query from AD, but the LegacyDN entry. You need to query the Exchange environment to get this information.
