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I have asked this question on several Exchange 2007 and Powershell fora, but I have yet to get an answer / solution.

I have been trying to get powershell to make me a CSV file with all entries in the messagetrackinglog of the type FAIL. But I am having some problems with the two of the variables - Recipients and SenderRecipients.

The commandline I am trying to run is this:

get-messagetrackinglog -EventID "FAIL" -Start "07-07-2007 00:00:00" -End "07-07-2007 23:59:00" -ResultSize 4 | Select-Object Recipients, SenderRecipients, RecipientStatus, ServerIp,Sender, MessageId | export-csv c:\test.csv

And the file I get from this is this:

#TYPE System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject
Recipients,SenderRecipients,RecipientStatus,ServerIp,Sender,MessageId
System.String[],,System.String[],,henrik@kanonerbjudande.se,<419779-22007745104938156@mailsenderclass>
System.String[],,System.String[],,henrik@kanonerbjudande.se,<4133288-22007745151252296@mailsenderclass>
System.String[],,System.String[],,fyb@zianet.com,<468E8C31.6060202@zianet.com>
System.String[],,System.String[],216.234.192.171,postmaster@mailsender.biz,<75f85890-ac52-44db-b585-133bc37e3618>

As you can see, Recipients and SenderRecipients are of an array type, and does not give me the content.

My question is therefore, how can I get the information in the two arrays? If this is not the right forum to ask for help with powershell, I apologize, and hope someone can point me to a more suitable forum to seek help.

Eventually I want this command/script to run daily via a scheduled job somehow. I gather that I need to make a ps1 script that can be run by windows. If the above command needs to be altered to make this possible, I would also very much like to get input on this :)

Hope someone can help.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay on this reply.

Regards an answer I am not sure, but wonder how you have got on with this one.

If you are not getting anywhere still, then let me know and I will try and past this on to some MS people who may be able to help.

Hope to hear back

Cheers

Nathan

 

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk

Alas, I too have encountered this problem, and would be greatful if anyone has figured out a solution.

Thanks.

 

 

Hi,

 

I'm affraid I never found or got an answer to this one.

I hope someone else might be able to help

Cheers

Nathan

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk

I found this post through google and I thought I would post my findings.
It seems the output cmdlet doesn't work 100% so it at present can't accept the details passed through to it, so it outputs the variables.
The best work-a-rounds I have found is to either pipe to Format-list which gives the full headers,
so:

Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03/13/2006 9:00AM" -End "03/15/2006 5:00PM" -Sender "tbremer@contoso.com" | Format-List

or Double piping to format-table then to clip (which puts it on the clip-board to paste into excel etc)

Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03/13/2006 9:00AM" -End "03/15/2006 5:00PM" -Sender "tbremer@contoso.com" | Format-Table -wrap |clip

Hi,

That is interesting!

So are you saying there is actually a bug in this area?

If you could outline exactly what occurs (i.e. how to reproduce the output issue) then I will escalate that into MS and see whether they know about the issue.

Cheers

Nathan

 

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk

Hey Nathan, the bug can be reproduced the same way SuneR did it. But it isn't a major bug just something in one of the cmdlets is screwed.

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying that.

I will flag it to MS and see what they come up with.

Cheers

Nathan

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk

Right, maybe a possible answer

Take a look in the help as follows

“help select-object –det”

 

Take a look at “-expandproperty”. So….

 

… Select-Object Recipients, SenderRecipients, RecipientStatus, ServerIp,Sender, MessageId –expandproperty Recipents....

 

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers

Nathan

 

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk

The solution for this is
select-Object SenderRecipients, RecipientStatus, ServerIp,Sender, MessageId,{$_.recipients}
might be got before but only to help out those who make a visit to this page!!!!

Hi,

Thanks, it is nice when people follow up!

Cheers

Nathan

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Nathan Winters - MVP Exchange Server
MCSE & MCSA 2000 & 2003 + Messaging, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCP, VMWare VCP v2 & v3.

Welcome to the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group: http://www.mmmug.co.uk