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commands per environment or per element

I am new to exchange/management shell, but for a risk assessment I need to run a few exchange commands. I want to check mailbox DB backups and autoforward settings. I have found for last backup I can run:

$dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase -Status

but if there is more than one mailbox database, do I need to run this command "per database", or will the above list all mailbox databases on the server and their -status?

I cant see anyway to specify a mailbox DB parameter if it needs running multiple times to represent multiple mailboxes.

likewise withautoforward rules, I found I can run:

Get-Mailbox -Filter { ForwardingAddress -like "*" } | Where-Object { $_.ForwardingAddress -like "*" } | Select-Object Name,ForwardingAddress

but again, does the above command enumerate all mailboxes in the environment, or all mailboxes on a given server/given mailbox database, and again if you have mailboxes on numerous servers acorss numbers mailbox databases, would it need running multiple times? and how would you specify a parameter?

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Simon Butler (Sembee)

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Pau Lo

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i dont curently have access to exchange/exchange shell so wanted to go prepared for when I have to do my analysis

so basically the answer to the above is its one command per environment..?

Simon Butler (Sembee)

It can be - it depends on the command.

Simon.