Script for Available Free Space Within Exchange Databases

Posted by William on April 25, 2011 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

Applies to: Exchange 2010

This Exchange Management Shell Script returns the available free space (whitespace) within your mailbox databases. This may by useful to know when you purged disconnected mailboxes.

Get-MailboxDatabase -status | fl Name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace

The result will look similar to this.

Name : Mailbox Database 1
AvailableNewMailboxSpace : 14.41 MB (15,106,048 bytes)

Name : Mailbox Database 2
AvailableNewMailboxSpace : 5.251 GB (5,638,553,600 bytes)

Name : Mailbox Database 3
AvailableNewMailboxSpace : 142.3 MB (149,258,240 bytes)