Dmitry’s PowerBlog: PowerShell and beyond

As a quick follow-up for the Exchange 2000/2003 PowerShell post here are a few additional references.

TechNet Script Center has a good article on WMI classes available:

• Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 1
• Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 2
• Managing Exchange 2003 with WMI, Part 3

To use a class in PowerShell use Get-WMIObject. For example, to get queue information run:

Get-WmiObject -ComputerName YourExchangeServer -Class Exchange_Queue

Or if you are running the script locally on Exchange server just:

Get-WmiObject -Class Exchange_Queue

To add a node with Exchange 2003 queues to PowerGUI:

1. In PowerGUI, right-click the folder where you want to add it, and click New / Node on the shortcut menu.
2. Type in the name you want the node to have (e.g. Exchange Queues)
3. Pick Get-WmiObject from the Command drop-down list.
4. Type the actual class as the Class parameter (e.g. Exchange_Queue)
5. If running remotely, specify the Exchange server name as the Computer Name:

As result you will get a UI like the one Nicolas created for his Exchange 2003 environment.

Here’s a list of WMI classes available (linked to their respective MSDN pages):

Note that they will not work for Exchange 2007. WMI is no longer supported there but the good news that PowerShell provides you much more.

Tags: WMI, PowerGUI, PowerShell, Exchange