Hoping someone can help me here, I'm writing a script to automate my mailbox move and I'm having trouble with a few parts.
At a high level, I'm moving from a EX2003 environment with no mailbox quotas to a EX2007SP1 environment with Quotas set @ the DB level. I also have a target size of 50GB / DB so if I had 256MB quota's in place, that means I can get roughly ~191 users in that DB. I'm feeding the script a .csv file with 2 columns, name, current mbx size. The logic I'm trying to write is for the script to get the current mailbox count of the first DB - "DB01" and determine if it's less than the max number of mailboxes allowed for its particular quota limits. If it has room, move x number of mailboxes to meet its capacity, once complete, move to the next db and repeat. This is the part I'm having trouble with, how do I determine the user count per db into a variable that can be used in a script? I'm using this to grab my count per db: $dbcount = get-mailbox -server MyCMSName | Group -Property:Database | Select Name,Count | Sort -Property Name How do I determine that DB01 has a Count Value of 40? The other complication here is that we have a AD Forest with multiple child domains, Exchange is installed in one of these child domains. I have recipient objects in the same child domain where Exchange is installed and 2 other child domains. When I run the above cmd, it only returns the recipients from the same domain. If I use the -DomainController parameter and specify a DC of the other domain, I get just the recipients in that domain. Is it possible to widen the scope forest wide? This makes it tough because I run a few items via the set-mailbox cmd in my script and this will always fail unless I specify the domain. TIA, - John Barsodi ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
