Analysing an Exchange Mailbox

[basicchannel]

Hi,

 

I have been asked to do an audit of someone's mailbox, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to the best way to do it?

 

Basically I just need to find out the average number of messages they receive per day over the period of say, a month.

 

We're running Exchange '03

 

I was thinking a simple VBScript would be good, that directs to the persons mailbox and then just outputs how many messages they have on each day between a set number of days/weeks/months etc.

 

Or a piece of software that does the same thing.

 

Many Thanks

Edited March 8, 2012 by basicchannel

[sukh]

There's many tools out there and osme are free, they basically parse the messgae tracking lg file which records message coming in/out for that mailbox, both internal and external messages.

 

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[basicchannel]

Hmm, I'm not sure if that does what I need it to do. I really need something with Treesize capabilities, but that analyses mailboxes. I can dream I suppose.

[sukh]

If you just want sizes then use ESM.

[basicchannel]

OK... any suggestion as to how to go about doing this in Service Manager?

[sukh]

Do you just want the size of mailboxes?

[basicchannel]

No, it's a bit more complicated than that. I want the statistics of a particular mailbox. Basically we're getting complaints that a certain MoS is receiving too much mail, and this is affecting their job. I want to get data on their particular mailbox which will show how many messages they've received on a daily basis in the last month, and on average, how many they receive in a month.

 

I imagine this is possible using powershell or VBS, but I'm yet to find an example script that gives results at such a granular level.

[sukh]

No, it's a bit more complicated than that. I want the statistics of a particular mailbox. Basically we're getting complaints that a certain MoS is receiving too much mail, and this is affecting their job. I want to get data on their particular mailbox which will show how many messages they've received on a daily basis in the last month, and on average, how many they receive in a month.

 

I imagine this is possible using powershell or VBS, but I'm yet to find an example script that gives results at such a granular level.

 

You're using Exch 20003, so powershell is out the window. Like I say, parse the MT logs files, there are many free scripts and utils out there that will give you this info you want.

 

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