Exchange 2007 Audit Report

I had some extra time this week to complete the Exchange 2007 version of the Audit script, as I am going on leave for a week, and needed to have the process automated while I am gone.

This version of the script still uses WMI for some of the items on the report, but uses the Exchange 2007 commandlets for most of the Exchange related information.

The one tricky bit of information to retrieve was the installed Exchange rollups. These are not available via WMI or any other method I could find. I did find a very effective solution on flaphead.com. This little piece of magic, locates the installed patches in the remote registry, and loops through the keys to find and list the installed rollups.

Unlike Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 servers are installed with specific roles. This plays a part, when checking things like queues and mailbox stores. For instance, there is no point in checking a pure Hub Transport server for mailbox stores etc. I initially built in a check which would check the ServerRole property of the server to match a specific role, forgetting that one server could have multiple roles. I now do a match for the role anywhere in the property string with this if statement: if ($exServer.ServerRole -notlike "*Mailbox*") This will skip the mailbox related check if the word “Mailbox” cannot be located anywhere in the string.

To automate the running of the checks on a daily basis I setup a scheduled task on one of my Exchange 2007 servers as the script requires the commandlets.

I really had no idea how to get the scheduled task to run in the Exchange management shell so, as a test I basically used the following command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\bin\exshell.psc1" c:\scripts\ExchangeAudit2k7.ps1 .\servers.txt

This did the trick and the entire check process now runs and completes before I even get to work. My version of the script, also creates an HTML menu and moves the reports to our departmental web server for my managers’ viewing pleasure. The mailbox stores now also indicate the last backup time, as we have had issues before where the backups aren't completed, and we don’t find out until it’s too late.

I am busy working on a little piece of code, which will connect to the OWA site and simply test if the site is available, but that will have to wait until I am back from leave.

This script has been replaced by a later version, please check the following link, or download the updated version below:



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