List mailboxes in Exchange database with PowerShell

An excellent way to find out which mailboxes are on an Exchange database is to use PowerShell. With Exchange Management Shell, you can immediately see which mailboxes are located in the database. In this article, you will learn how to list mailboxes in a database.

Get mailbox database name

Before you start, you want to have the mailbox database name. Run Exchange Management Shell as administrator.

Get all mailbox databases with Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet. Use the -Status switch to check the mailbox database mount status. Use the -IncludePreExchange switch to get mailbox databases in older Exchange servers.

Mount the mailbox database, otherwise you can’t list the mailboxes.

[PS] C:\>Get-MailboxDatabase -Status -IncludePreExchange | Sort Name | Format-Table Name, Server, Mounted

Name Server    Mounted
---- ------    -------
DB01 EX01-2016    True
DB02 EX02-2016    True
DB03 EX01-2016    True
DB04 EX02-2016    True

Read more: Get Exchange mailbox database mount status with PowerShell »

In the next step, we will list all mailboxes in the Exchange database.

List all mailboxes in a database

Find out what mailboxes are in a mailbox database. In this example, we will check mailbox database DB02.

[PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database "DB02" | ft Name, Alias, WindowsEmailAddress, UserPrincipalName

Name            Alias           WindowsEmailAddress       UserPrincipalName
----            -----           -------------------       -----------------
Piers Bower     Piers.Bower     Piers.Bower@exoip.com     Piers.Bower@exoip.com
Richard Grant   Richard.Grant   Richard.Grant@exoip.com   Richard.Grant@exoip.com
Nicholas Murray Nicholas.Murray Nicholas.Murray@exoip.com Nicholas.Murray@exoip.com
Ruth Dickens    Ruth.Dickens    Ruth.Dickens@exoip.com    Ruth.Dickens@exoip.com
Jonathan Fisher Jonathan.Fisher Jonathan.Fisher@exoip.com Jonathan.Fisher@exoip.com
Grace Rees      Grace.Rees      Grace.Rees@exoip.com      Grace.Rees@exoip.com
Patrick Mors    Patrick.Mors    Patrick.Mors@exoip.com    Patrick.Mors@exoip.com

Export all mailboxes in a database to CSV file

Export to CSV file in the directory C:\temp. Create a temp folder if you don’t have one.

[PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database "DB02" | select Name, Alias, WindowsEmailAddress, UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv C:\temp\MailboxesDB02.csv -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8

Open the CSV file with Microsoft Excel or another favorite application of your choice.

Keep reading: Determine if a mailbox is on-premises or in Office 365 »

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to list mailboxes in Exchange database with PowerShell. It’s good to know which mailboxes are in a database before you migrate or when there are problems on a database, and you want to see if a mailbox is located on that database. The PowerShell cmdlets are excellent to use.

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