Exchange Group Team Blog: Find Exchange Databases using Powershell

A small change in $strFilter=”(objectClass=msExchPrivateMDB)” and you get all the mailbox databases ;-)

$forest = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest() $Dom = "LDAP://CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=" + $Forest.Name.Replace(".",",DC=") $strFilter="(objectClass=msExchPrivateMDB)" $Root = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $Dom $selector = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $selector.PageSize = 1000 $selector.Filter = $strFilter $selector.SearchRoot = $root $selector.SearchScope = "Subtree" $Objs = $selector.findall() $Objs.count $Objs

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