Public/MailFlow/Trace-ExchangeMessage.ps1
function Trace-ExchangeMessage { <# .SYNOPSIS On-Premises Exchange Message Tracking Log made easy! You may see an error if you have Edge servers in your org. It is fine to ignore those. .DESCRIPTION Searches all Hub Transport and Mailbox Servers for messages. Once found, you can select one or more messages via Out-GridView to search by those MessageID's. .PARAMETER Sender Parameter description .PARAMETER Recipients Parameter description .PARAMETER StartSearchHoursAgo Parameter description .PARAMETER EndSearchHoursAgo Parameter description .PARAMETER Subject Parameter description .PARAMETER MessageID Parameter description .PARAMETER ResultSize Parameter description .PARAMETER Status Parameter description .PARAMETER ExportToExcel Export results to Excel file in Posh365 folder on the desktop Can be used with ExportToCSV .PARAMETER ExportToCSV Export results to CSV file in Posh365 folder on the desktop Can be used with ExportToExcel .EXAMPLE Trace-ExchangeMessage -StartSearchHoursAgo 48 -EndSearchHoursAgo 24 -Recipients "joe@contoso.com" -Subject "Forklift incident" .EXAMPLE Trace-ExchangeMessage -StartSearchHoursAgo .01 .EXAMPLE Trace-ExchangeMessage -StartSearchHoursAgo 1 -ExportToExcel .NOTES General notes #> [CmdletBinding()] [Alias('New-MessageTrack')] param ( [Parameter()] [string] $Sender, [Parameter()] [string] $Recipients, [Parameter()] [Double] $StartSearchHoursAgo = ".1", [Parameter()] [Double] $EndSearchHoursAgo = "0", [Parameter()] [string] $Subject, [Parameter()] [switch] $SkipHealthMessages, [Parameter()] [string] $MessageID, [Parameter()] [string] $ResultSize = "Unlimited", [Parameter()] [string] $Status, [Parameter()] [switch] $ExportToExcel, [Parameter()] [switch] $ExportToCSV ) $Servers = Get-TransportServer -WarningAction SilentlyContinue $currentErrorActionPrefs = $ErrorActionPreference $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' if ($StartSearchHoursAgo) { [DateTime]$StartSearchHoursAgo = ((Get-Date).AddHours( - $StartSearchHoursAgo)) $StartSearchHoursAgo = $StartSearchHoursAgo.ToUniversalTime() } if ($StartSearchHoursAgo) { [DateTime]$EndSearchHoursAgo = ((Get-Date).AddHours( - $EndSearchHoursAgo)) $EndSearchHoursAgo = $EndSearchHoursAgo.ToUniversalTime() } $cmdletParams = (Get-Command $PSCmdlet.MyInvocation.InvocationName).Parameters.Keys $params = @{ } $NotArray = 'SkipHealthMessages','ExportToExcel', 'ExportToCSV', 'StartSearchHoursAgo', 'EndSearchHoursAgo', 'Subject', 'ResultSize', 'Debug', 'Verbose', 'ErrorAction', 'WarningAction', 'InformationAction', 'ErrorVariable', 'WarningVariable', 'InformationVariable', 'OutVariable', 'OutBuffer', 'PipelineVariable' foreach ($cmdletParam in $cmdletParams) { if ($cmdletParam -notin $NotArray) { if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace((Get-Variable -Name $cmdletParam).Value) -ne $true) { $params.Add($cmdletParam, (Get-Variable -Name $cmdletParam).Value) } } } $params.Add('Start', $StartSearchHoursAgo) $params.Add('End', $EndSearchHoursAgo) $params.Add('MessageSubject', $Subject) $allMessageTrackResults = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.List[PSObject]" try { $messageTrack = $Servers | Get-MessageTrackingLog @params -ResultSize $ResultSize if ($messageTrack) { $messageTrack | ForEach-Object { $messageTrackResults = [PSCustomObject]@{ Time = $_.TimeStamp Directionality = $_.Directionality EventID = $_.EventID Sender = $_.Sender Recipients = ($_.Recipients) -ne '' -join '|' Subject = $_.MessageSubject Connector = $_.ConnectorID SourceContext = $_.SourceContext EventData = ($_.EventData) -ne '' -join '|' ServerHostName = $_.ServerHostName ServerIP = $_.ServerIP ClientIP = $_.ClientIP OriginalClientIP = $_.OriginalClientIP ClientHostName = $_.ClientHostName TotalBytes = $_.TotalBytes MessageId = $_.MessageId } $allMessageTrackResults.Add($messageTrackResults) } else { Write-Verbose "`tNo results found" } } } catch { Write-Verbose "`tException gathering message trace data." } if ($allMessageTrackResults.count -gt 0) { if ($ExportToExcel -or $ExportToCSV) { $PoshPath = (Join-Path -Path ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop')) -ChildPath Posh365 ) $null = New-Item $PoshPath -type Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($ExportToExcel) { $FileStamp = 'OnPremises-MessageTrace_{0}.xlsx' -f [DateTime]::Now.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd-hhmm') $ExcelSplat = @{ Path = (Join-Path $PoshPath $FileStamp) TableStyle = 'Medium2' FreezeTopRowFirstColumn = $true AutoSize = $true BoldTopRow = $true ClearSheet = $true } if ($SkipHealthMessages) { $allMessageTrackResults.where{ $_.sender -notmatch "contoso|MicrosoftExchange|HealthMailbox|maildeliveryprobe" -and $_.recipients -notmatch "healthmailbox" } | Export-Excel @ExcelSplat } else { $allMessageTrackResults | Export-Excel @ExcelSplat } } if ($ExportToCSV) { $FileStamp = 'OnPremises-MessageTrace_{0}.csv' -f [DateTime]::Now.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd-hhmm') $CsvSplat = @{ Path = (Join-Path $PoshPath $FileStamp) NoTypeInformation = $true Encoding = 'UTF8' } if ($SkipHealthMessages) { $allMessageTrackResults.where{ $_.sender -notmatch "contoso|MicrosoftExchange|HealthMailbox|maildeliveryprobe" -and $_.recipients -notmatch "healthmailbox" } | Export-Csv @CsvSplat } else { $allMessageTrackResults | Export-Csv @CsvSplat } } return } Write-Verbose "`n$($allMessageTrackResults.count) results returned." if ($SkipHealthMessages) { $WantsToTrackMoreSpecifically = $allMessageTrackResults.where{ $_.sender -notmatch "contoso|MicrosoftExchange|HealthMailbox|maildeliveryprobe" -and $_.recipients -notmatch "healthmailbox" } | Out-GridView -PassThru -Title "Message Tracking Log. Select one or more then click OK to track by only those Message IDs." } else { $WantsToTrackMoreSpecifically = $allMessageTrackResults | Out-GridView -PassThru -Title "Message Tracking Log. Select one or more then click OK to track by only those Message IDs." } if ($WantsToTrackMoreSpecifically) { Foreach ($Wants in $WantsToTrackMoreSpecifically) { $allMessageTrackResults = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.List[PSObject]" try { $messageTrack = $Servers | Get-MessageTrackingLog -MessageID $wants.MessageId -ResultSize $ResultSize if ($messageTrack) { $messageTrack | ForEach-Object { $messageTrackResults = [PSCustomObject]@{ Time = $_.TimeStamp Directionality = $_.Directionality EventID = $_.EventID Sender = $_.Sender Recipients = $_.Recipients Subject = $_.MessageSubject Connector = $_.ConnectorID SourceContext = $_.SourceContext EventData = $_.EventData ServerHostName = $_.ServerHostName ServerIP = $_.ServerIP ClientIP = $_.ClientIP OriginalClientIP = $_.OriginalClientIP ClientHostName = $_.ClientHostName TotalBytes = $_.TotalBytes MessageId = $_.MessageId } $allMessageTrackResults.Add($messageTrackResults) } else { Write-Verbose "`tNo results found" } } } catch { Write-Verbose "`tException gathering message trace data." } $allMessageTrackResults | Out-GridView -Title "MessageID: $($Wants.MessageID)" } } } else { Write-Verbose "`nNo Results found." } $ErrorActionPreference = $currentErrorActionPrefs } |