It’s been this way all the way back to Exchange 5.0. ☺ (Maybe 4.0, but I started with 5.0.)
Just back in the day, you used vbscript or ldp.exe. Beer. Just keep pouring. ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:46 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script Michael, thank you. I’ve had been fighting with Manage Engine over this to the point that I gave up. How’d you know? Also, how many beers does that make that I owe you? ☺ Paul From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:15 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script Actually, this is pretty easy to automate: $user = ‘michael.smith’ ## the reporting user $databases = @( Get-MailboxDatabase ) foreach( $database in $databases ) { $dn = $database.DistinguishedName Add-ADPermission -Identity $dn -user $user -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights "Receive As" } From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:14 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script Let me give you a suggestion. Using adsiedit.msc, on each DATABASE, set the reporting user to have Receive-As as an extended right on the database. If you have a lot of databases, this can still be a little painful, but much less than setting it for each user. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:13 PM To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script Quest has Exchange Manager which we have. It does provide some reporting of what you’re looking for and you should be able to download it for a trial period to see what it does. I haven’t played a great deal with that part of it though. We were looking at it to gain insight into what our users were keeping in their mailbox (attachments mainly) and on that piece Quest needs to do more work. Specifically it appears that in order to get that drill down into a mailbox it’s not enough to have inherited permissions by an account, you have to give that account rights to each mailbox individually – which is tedious time consuming. I’ve opened communications with them to work through this but haven’t set up the time to do so yet. That is my major gripe with it. Paul From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Matteson Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 1:40 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [Exchange] Management report application / script I'm looking for an application or powershell script that can provide a set of performance/management reports. What I'm looking for, ideally, is transit time mailbox to mailbox for messages of various sizes and from user to internet gateway, again for messages of various sizes. If it can work using tracking logs only, that would be great. I know Quest had a package like this at one time. Any pointers would be great. Thanks. John M.