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powershell match get mailbox

I have been tasked with trying to locate all the alias and verify that the smtp address matches with each account. The issue is I am doing this by hand and with many accounts it will take a while.
what powershell command will allow me to match the aliasname with the primarysmtpaddress

I am stuck and cannot get beyond this point.

get-mailbox -resultsize:unlimited
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Try something like;

Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Select Name, Alias, PrimarySMTPAddress, @{Name='EmailAddresses';Expression={[string]::join(";", ($_.EmailAddresses -match 'SMTP'))}} | Export-CSV c:\EmailAddress.csv
Use the below command below...

On Screen
$Users = get-content "c:\users.txt"
Foreach ($User in $Users) {
Get-Mailbox -Identity $User | select DisplayName, PrimarySMTPAddress
}

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To CSV FIle
$Users = get-content "c:\users.txt"
Foreach ($User in $Users) {
Get-Mailbox -Identity $User | select DisplayName, PrimarySMTPAddress | out-file "c:\userSMTPAddresses.csv" -append
}

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thanks will but may I also add. Looking for something that would automate this instead of eye balling. I guess I would have to remove the domain @company.com because the alias is suppose to match the primarysmtpaddress and if it does not I would like a report.
You can use any of the following methods to look up a mailbox using the Identity parameter.

-Identity <MailboxIdParameter>
    The Identity parameter identifies the mailbox. You can use one of the following values:
    * GUID
    * Distinguished name (DN)
    * Domain\Account
    * User principal name (UPN)
    * LegacyExchangeDN
    * SmtpAddress
    * Alias

    Required?                    false
    Position?                    1
    Default value
    Accept pipeline input?       True
    Accept wildcard characters?  true

Will.
Let me clarify I might not be coming across clearly.Iruiz52 is somewhat close to what I am asking.

This below is a good idea but will not work

Get-mailbox | select name, ($_.alias -match $_.primarysmtpaddress)

1) I wanted something that while its processing this would at least when doing the comparison would filter out the domain name@company.com and then that way would be able to compare the alias in which we have firstname.lastname to the primarysmtpaddress firstname.lastname@company.com which would by powershell do the comparison for me.


So here is my data in theory in exchange and how it sees this.

               alias                                                                                primarysmtpaddress
     firstname.lastname                                                          firstname.lastname@somecompany.com
     dollar.bill                                                                           dollar.bill@somecompany.com
     jane.doe                                                                             jane.doe@somecompany.com


Step 1 would like for the somecompany.com to be removed so that it can filter it properly. NOT in the exchange environment but some substring for processing.


             alias                                                                                primarysmtpaddress
     firstname.lastname                                                          firstname.lastname
     dollar.bill                                                                           dollar.bill
     jane.doe                                                                             jane.doe

Now its the same now and powershell can compare the alias vs the primarysmtpaddress and anything that does not matches comes back and reports.
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thanks i was actually thinking of settling for excel. It seems to be the best way to do this.
Yeah why over complicate things if you are already exporting it to a csv.

Will.