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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the path to the Exchange mailbox databases. How can I find the path to the Exchange mailbox database on my Exchange Server? Use the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet, and select the EdbFilePath property, as shown here. Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select edbfilepath
Summary: Learn how to find out the number of words in the Help About_ conceptual files. How can I determine how many words are in the Help About_ conceptual files? Use the Get-Help cmdlet to find all of the About_ conceptual files. Then, pipe the results to a Foreach-object cmdlet. Inside the process script block, ca...
Summary: Find out how many about_ conceptual Help files exist on a Windows 8 Windows PowerShell installation. How can I get a listing of all the about_ conceptual Help files on my computer running Windows 8? Use the Get-Help cmdlet and search for about*, as shown here. Get-Help about* To find out how many articl...
Summary: Using Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 to display the IP address. How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 to display IP address configurations? Use the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet and filter for net adapters that have a status of&n...
Summary: Learn how to find the top 10 most-utilized Windows PowerShell verbs. How can I find out the top 10 Windows PowerShell verbs? Use the Get-Command cmdlet and select all of the verbs. Next, group the verbs, sort them, and select the first ten. This is shown here, where gcm is an alias for Get-Command,...