The other day I wanted to get a quick count of how many recipients I had in the enterprise. Of course, I wanted to be able to run a powershell command instead of going into the EMC. I fooled around with the Get-MailboxStatistics command until I got what I wanted and figured it would be a nice little one liner to share:
Get-MailboxStatistics | group MailboxDatabase | format-table count
This is a very simple command that just outputs the count (number) of recipients you have on a given exchange mailbox server. Of course, if you have more than one server you’ll need to specify that inside the command. Since I only have one, it’s pretty simple.
UPDATED: Please note that this returns ALL recipients…not just mailboxes (as I thought when I initially posted this). That means contacts, distribution groups, etc. For a way to find how many user mailboxes you have in each database check this post. Thanks for reading!
