Quite often when you’ve called to install or troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange, you need to run several commands by the Exchange Management shell and remembering these commands sometimes is not easy,

I’ve listed a few commands I often usd (I prefer powershell than the console).

1. CD to Exchange Scripts folder 

cd $exscripts or set-location “Path to Scripts folder”

2. Check Last Backup

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select Name,LastFullBackup

3. Check DAG Replication Status

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus

4. Start Dag Maintenance

StartDagServerMaintenance -servername “nameofserver”

5. Stop Dag Mainatenance

StopDagServerMaintenance -servername “nameofserver”

6. Redistribute Database to main server.

RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 -DagName “dagname” -BalanceDbsByActivationPreference -ShowFinalDatabaseDistribution -Confirm:$false

7. List all Exchange Servers

Get-ExchangeServer

8. View Queues on Server

Get-TransportServer | Get-Queue

9. Verify Exchange Services Status

Get-Service | Where {$_.DisplayName -Like “Microsoft Exchange*”}

10. Update address book after creating new users

Get-Globaladdresslist | update-Globaladdresslist

Get-Addresslist | Update-Addresslist

There are a lot more and I will try to list them. But these are the main onesI use.