List of mailbox limits? 1

[TexExpat]

Some people in our help desk have misconfigured the mailbox size limits of a number of mailboxes on our Exchange Server. Is there any way within Exchange to generate a list of mailbox limits for all mailboxes, or are we stuck with checking them one by one within Exchange Administrator?

Thanks for your help.

 

[jpaf]

Directory Export to a csv file.

Regards
jpaf

 

[TexExpat]

Thank you very much for your reply.

When I exported the directory to a CSV file, the mailbox limits were not among the fields exported. Is there a way to specify that those fields are exported?

 

[jpaf]

After you do the initial export, go into the CSV and add a column. You need to name the column the same as the ATTRIBUTE name of the field you want. You find the attribute name by opening Exch Admin in raw mode and looking at raw properties of the mailbox. The columns you need for limits are "Issue warning storage limit" and "Prohibit send storage limit". These are the field names, in the Exchange database, for the respective tickboxes under the LIMITS tab.

Then do an export to the same file, it will then populate the columns you added as well as the basic ones.

Hope this helps
jpaf

 

[brontosaurus]

Very helpful post jpaf. If I may add one more thing...in the BO Resource kit there is a file called HEADER.EXE that will do the same "column adding" function....

 

[TexExpat]

Thank you both very much.

I was able, through both "admin /r" and the HEADER.EXE file, to find headers for many fields that could be exported, including headers for "issue warning limit" and "prohibit receive limit." However, I could not find a header for the field in which I am most interested, "prohibit send and receive." Do you know what I need to use as a header for that field, or is there no header for that field?

Thanks very much.

 

[jpaf]

By matter of elimination (entering a random value in the field, then look for that value in the raw properties of ALL FIELDS) I have found that the header for "Prohibit Send and Receive" is called DXA-Task (no idea why it's called that).

I have heard of header.exe but not used it, bit set in my ways, still use the manual approach.

Regards
jpaf

 

[TexExpat]

Thank you very much! You really worked to answer my question, and I'm grateful for your help.

The procedure worked quickly and easily.

Thanks again; I really appreciate it.