exchange powershell : finding the active directory office property - powershell

Question

I wrote this small script to pull the office property from get-user by piping the exchange mailbox object.
$server = "tms08"
$arrUser = get-mailbox -Server $server |Get-MailboxStatistics |select identity
foreach ( $id in $arrUuser)
{
$office = get-user -Identity $id.Identity |select office
$out += $id.Identity
}
$out
I don't get any output or red errors. just the warning:
WARNING:There is no data to return for
the specifed mailbox
'Globe/MobileElect Usertemplate',
because it has not been logged on to.
WARNING:By default only the first 1000
items are returned. To change the
number of items returned, specify the
parameter "-ResultSize". To return all
items specify "-ResultSize Unilimited"
(Note: REturning all items maytake a
long time and consume a large amount
of memory depending on the actual
number of items). It is not
recommended to store the results in a
variable; instead pipe the results to
another task or script to perform
batch changes.
Any ideas on what might be causing this?
My goal is to develop a script which executes once a day via scheduled task which compiles all mailbox names, mailbox sizes, totalitems, totaldeleted items, along with their office and description fields (from active directory).
I'm guessing the get-qaduser is part of the quest powershell addon. I'll install it locally and give it a try..
the identiy property seems to give a number similar to the guid which looks like
1234as01-4f54-1234-b1df-f1df1df12d2d
I tried running
get-user -identity 1234as01-4f54-1234-b1df-f1df1df12d2d
and it found a name (joey blasio) and recipient type (usermailbox)
then i ran
get-user -Identity 1234as01-4f54-1234-b1df-f1df1df12d2d | select displayname, distinguistedname
Displayname (Joey Blasio ) and DistinguishedName (CN=Joey
Blasio,OU=EWE,DC=BLA-1,DC=net)

Answer 1

It is done by DisplayName
$exchangeservers = Get-MailboxServer
$AllUsers = #()
$AllUsersEmail = #()
foreach ($server in $exchangeservers)
{
$AllUsers += Get-Mailbox -Server $server |Get-MailboxStatistics |select servername,displayname,itemcount,totalitemsize
}
foreach ($user in $AllUsers)
{
$obj = new-object psObject
$mailinfo = get-mailbox -identity $user.displayname |select PrimarySMTPAddress,Office, DistinguishedName
$tmp = [adsi]("LDAP://" + $mailinfo.DistinguishedName)
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Server Name" -Value $user.ServerName
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Display Name" -Value $user.DisplayName
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Item Count" -Value $user.ItemCount
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Total Item Size" -Value $user.TotalItemSize
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Email Address" -Value $mailinfo.PrimarySMTPAddress
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Office" -Value $mailinfo.Office
$obj |Add-Member -MemberType noteproperty -Name "Description" -Value $tmp.description
$AllUsersEmail += $obj
}
$AllUsersEmail |Export-Csv c:\test.csv -NoTypeInformation

Answer 2

I believe the problem is that you're accessing a mailbox that's never been accessed normally. Can you try this with a mailbox that you know the owner has opened and worked with? Or is that already the case?
Also, as I don't have access to my Exchange machine at the moment, can you give me an idea of what the Identity property contains? I'm absolutely certain using a cmdlet like Get-QADUser vs. Get-User in Exchange, will ultimately bring you more satisfaction. We just need to mesh up the right property from Get-MailboxStatistics to something Get-QADUser can consume, so that it can get you the right user.
It might also be a bit helpful to understand what your end goal is - possibly there's an entirely different approach that will get you to where you want to be.