I was reminded recently of Microsoft's upcoming scripting games. In the past I have always started with the best of intentions to complete the challenges but often found myself distracted by silly things like work and such. This year I am going to try and finish at least the PowerShell based ones as a way to learn more about it. The stuff I do right now is very very basic.

More information on the scripting games can be found at the Microsoft Script Center.

So, how many of your Exchange 2003 users are using cached mode? This script can pull that information through WMI for current logged on users.

We have been exporting some mailbox information manually and I was sort of tired of doing it that way. I thought I'd try to make it work with PowerShell to automate it and add some consistency. It took some experimentation and here it is.

It saves to a file, ServerName-Date.csv in the directory it's run from. It has Display Name, Storage Group Name, Store Name, Mailbox size (in kb like ESM) and Date Discovered Absent in DS (which is short for when the Active Directory account the mailbox was associated was deleted).