Enable Exchange 2010 Online Archive in a mixed environment (Part 2: By Database)
- Part 1: Enable Exchange 2010 Online Archive in a mixed environment by OU
- Part 3: Enable Exchange 2010 Online Archive in a mixed environment by CSV
- Part 4: Conclusion (all wrapped up)
Today I will show you how to enable the OA by database inside a mixed environment.
- Mixed environment
- Enable based on Database
- Split online archives among 4 different databases
What it does
This function will get users from a specific database, ensure they are Exchange 2010 users, and enable the online archive while spreading the users across four separate databases.
What you need and need to know
- No special considerations for this!
Learn it
ConnectAD and ConnectExchange to load these modules remotely rather than depend on having the tools installed locally.
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#Connect to Active Directory and load modules function ConnectAD { $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $dc Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {Import-Module ActiveDirectory} Import-PSSession -Session $session -Module ActiveDirectory } #Connect to Exchange and load modules function ConnectExchange { $exch = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://$exchangefqdn/powershell -name Exchange Import-PSSession $exch } |
Load the modules (AD and Exchange), unless they have already been loaded.
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#Load modules if(!(Get-PSSession | ?{$_.ComputerName -like "$dc*"}) -and $askoncepersessionmodules -ne 1) { $global:askoncepersessionmodules = 1 cls write-host "Connecting to Active Directory, and Exchange. Please wait..." -f yellow; ConnectAD ConnectExchange } |
We need to set our variables.
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# Domain controller FQDN $dc = "dc.domain.local" # Exchange FQDN $exchangefqdn = "exch.domain.local" # Online Archive databases $databases = "DB1", "DB2", "DB3", "DB4" # Your full Exchange version. If you don't know, type (get-mailbox user).ExchangeVersion $exchangeversion = "0.10 (14.0.100.0)" |
We’re now ready to enable the online archive.
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#Enable online Archive by Database function EnableOnlineArchive { $count = 0 $mbdbs = Get-MailboxDatabase foreach($mbdb in $mbdbs) { $users = get-mailbox -database $mbdb.name foreach($user in $users) { write-host enable-mailbox $user.alias -Archive -ArchiveDatabase $databases[$count] $count++ if($count -eq 4) { $count = 0; } } } } |
I hope this post is useful to you, and thank you for reading.
Source Code
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######################################## # Enable Online Archive by DB # Created by Troy Ward ######################################## #Variables # Domain controller FQDN $dc = "dc.domain.local" # Exchange FQDN $exchangefqdn = "exch.domain.local" # Online Archive databases $databases = "DB1", "DB2", "DB3", "DB4" # Your full Exchange version. If you don't know, type (get-mailbox user).ExchangeVersion $exchangeversion = "0.10 (14.0.100.0)" # No more variables #Connect to Active Directory and load modules function ConnectAD { $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $dc Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {Import-Module ActiveDirectory} Import-PSSession -Session $session -Module ActiveDirectory } #Connect to Exchange and load modules function ConnectExchange { $exch = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://$exchangefqdn/powershell -name Exchange Import-PSSession $exch } #Load modules if(!(Get-PSSession | ?{$_.ComputerName -like "$dc*"}) -and $askoncepersessionmodules -ne 1) { $global:askoncepersessionmodules = 1 cls write-host "Connecting to Active Directory, and Exchange. Please wait..." -f yellow; ConnectAD ConnectExchange } #Enable online Archive by Database function EnableOnlineArchive { $count = 0 $mbdbs = Get-MailboxDatabase foreach($mbdb in $mbdbs) { $users = get-mailbox -database $mbdb.name foreach($user in $users) { write-host enable-mailbox $user.alias -Archive -ArchiveDatabase $databases[$count] $count++ if($count -eq 4) { $count = 0; } } } } EnableOnlineArchive |
