Checking Exchange 2010 Database Size Using A One-Liner…
Checking the size of the mailbox database is not easy in Exchange 2007. This is because of the fact that Get-MailboxDatabase doesn’t have the a databasesize attribute when used with the –Status switch. Fortunately, things have changed in Get-MailboxDatabase command in Exchange 2010. In order to find the size of mailbox databases, run the following…
Checking the size of the mailbox database is not easy in Exchange 2007. This is because of the fact that Get-MailboxDatabase doesn’t have the a databasesize attribute when used with the –Status switch.
Fortunately, things have changed in Get-MailboxDatabase command in Exchange 2010. In order to find the size of mailbox databases, run the following command
Get-MailboxDatabase –Status | fl name, databasesize
Good that the command has been improved in 2010 to give the functionality out of the box!
Awesome worked exactly as I wanted it to…brilliant
Glad it helped Tebogo
As your database grows, when are these numbers updated? We recently started auto-archiving and the DB sizes of the archive DBs have not changed [yet].
Hi Jeff,
It should be updated as it goes along. If you have white space, that will be used first and hence the actual size of the database won’t grow.
Excellent! Simple and understandable!
Thanks Ilya
Hi Drew,
Name isn't blank. I just erased it from the screenshot. Name will show your database name.
Thanks.
Why select name if it is blank?