This script reads Exchange Organization data and creates a single Microsoft Word document. A later version will support exporting to an Html file.
The script requires an Exchange Management Shell for Exchange Server 2016 or newer. Older EMS versions are not tested.
A locally installed version of Word is required, as plain Html export is not available, yet.
The default file name is 'Exchange-Org-Report [TIMESTAMP].docx'.
Most of the script requires only Exchange admin read-only access for the Exchange organization. Querying address list information requires a membership in the RBAC role "Address Lists".
The script queries hardware information from the Exchange server systems and requires local administrator access to the computer systems.
# Example 1 # Create a Word report for the local Exchange Organization using # the default values defined on the parameters section of the PowerShell script. .\Get-ExchangeOrganizationReport.ps1 -ViewEntireForest:$true # Example 2 # Create a Microsoft Word report for the local Exchange Organization with # a verbose output to the current PowerShell session. .\Get-ExchangeOrganizationReport.ps1 -Verbose
The script is based on the ADDS_Inventory.ps1 PowerScript by Carl Webster: https://github.com/CarlWebster/ActiveDirectory
This script gathers a list of enabled users for a selected Exchange Server client protocol. The list of users is sent by email as HTML text in the email body or as an attached CSV file. You can select to gather data for a single protocol or for all protocols.
Available protocols are:
# Find users having all protocols enabled, create a CSV file per protocol and send an email with CSV attachments .\Get-EnabledProtocolReport.ps1 -SendMail -MailFrom automation@varunagroup.de -MailTo report@varunagroup.de -MailServer relay.varunagroup.de -Protocol ALL # Find users having all protocols enabled, create a CSV file per protocol .\Get-EnabledProtocolReport.ps1 -Protocol ALL -ExportCsv
This script creates an HTML report showing the following information about an Exchange 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and, to a lesser extent, 2007 and 2003 environment.
The report shows the following:
The script uses a separate CSS file for styling the HTML output.
# Example 1 # Generate an HTML report and send the result as HTML email with attachment # to the specified recipient using a dedicated smart host .\Get-ExchangeEnvironmentReport.ps1 -HTMReport ExchangeEnvironment.html -SendMail ` -ViewEntireForet $true -MailFrom roaster@mcsmemail.de -MailTo grillmaster@mcsmemail.de -MailServer relay.mcsmemail.de
Additional credits go to Steve Goodman for the original Exchange Environment Report V1.x scripts.
This script connects either to Exchange Online or to a dedicated on-premises Exchange Server to export configured mailbox delegates and SMTP forwarding configurations.
The SMTP forwarding configurations are gathered from inbox rules and from mailbox forwarding settings.
# Example 1 # Connect to the on-premises Exchange Server mx01.varunagroup.de and export delegation and SMTP forwarding information .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeHost mx01.varunagroup.de # Example 2 # Connect to the on-premises Exchange Server mx01.varunagroup.de, export delegation and SMTP forwarding information and get verbose information on the objects worked on .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeHost mx01.varunagroup.de -Verbose # Example 3 # Connect to Exchange Online and export delegation and SMTP forwarding information .\Get-DelegatesAndForwardingRules.ps1 -ExchangeOnline
Use GitHub Issues to leave comments, requests, end even bugs or issues.
The script is based on the O365-InvestigationTooling script DumpDelegatesandForwardingRules.ps1 by Brandon Koeller Find more Office 365 investigation tooling scripts at https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-InvestigationTooling.
You have an Exchange Server 2016 organization and plan to upgrade to Cumulative Update 10. You log on to an Exchange Server, activate DAG maintenance and prepare the Server Component States for installing the new Cumulative Update.
You open an elevated PowerShell Session and start the Setup using
./Setup.exe /Mode:Upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
Out of a sudden the Exchange Server CU Setup fails while executing setup step Stopping Services with an error:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 10 Unattended Setup Copying Files... File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation. Languages Management tools Mailbox role: Transport service Mailbox role: Client Access service Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service Mailbox role: Mailbox service Mailbox role: Front End Transport service Mailbox role: Client Access Front End service Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check Configuring Prerequisites COMPLETED Prerequisite Analysis COMPLETED Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server Preparing Setup COMPLETED Stopping Services FAILED The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); & $RoleBinPath\ServiceControl.ps1 -Operation:DisableServices -Roles:($RoleRoles.Replace('Role','').Split(',')) -SetupScriptsDirectory:$RoleBinPath; & $RoleBinPath\ServiceControl.ps1 -Operation:Stop -Roles:($RoleRoles.Replace('Role','').Split(',')) -IsDatacenter:([bool]$RoleIsDatacenter) " was run: "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ProcessCommandException: Cannot stop process "fms (2496)" because of the following error: Access is denied ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.OpenProcess(Int32 processId, Int32 access, Boolean throwIfExited) at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessHandle(Int32 access, Boolean throwIfExited) at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_HasExited() at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StopProcessCommand.ProcessRecord() --- End of inner exception stack trace ---". The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
Why would an error like Access Denied happen while executing the Setup.exe as a member of the local Administrators security group from within an elevated PowerShell session?
The PowerShell code executed as part of the CU Setup sets the startup type of Exchange and some Windows services to Disabled. This ensures that in the case of a server reboot an automatic start of the service will not interfere partially executed the setup. After setting the startup type to Disabled the services are stopped.
The services are controlled by the ServiceControl.ps1 script which is located on the Exchange Server installation media in \Setup\ServerRoles\Common\.
The function StopServices stops services using the Stop-Service cmdlet. Due to some timing issues some services are stopped by killing the running processes using Stop-Process -Force.
The services stopped by stopping the running process are:
Executing the Stop-Process cmdlet results in the Access Denied error.
The issue is related to fact that the user account logged on the server and executing the Exchange Server Cumulatice Update does not have the local User Rights Assignment to Debug Programs.
By default the right to debug programs is assigned to the local Adminstrators security group. In secured Active Directory infrastructures the user rights assignments and local security groups are often managed using Group Policy Objects (GPO). The GPOs manage the names of local security groups, group memberships and even user rights assignments.
The client encountering the issue described above hasn't had any issues installing Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2013 in the past. So this is solution is related to the setup of Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Updates on Windows Server 2016 only. If you have any information regarding Exchange Server 2013, let me know using the comments section below.
Enjoy Exchange Server!