How do I pull counts of email sents to a specific smtp address

Question

I was asked to see if I could pull statistics on the volumne of email, and specifically the size of attachments sent from within my organization to a particular email address.

I work a lot with Exchange Web services but this seems like a more like a powershell through the Exchange shell type of situtation. Does anyone have any pointers on this? I am comfortable with powershell but I am not familiar with the Exchange cmdlets.

I also asked this question on server fault as I was not sure what site would be most appropriate.

Answer 1

The first place I'd suggest trying to get this info from is the hub transport logs. Those only exist for 14 days by default so you may need to write a script that runs daily and exports the stats to a csv file or database.

If you need to get data older than 14 days right now then take a look at: Search-Mailbox

Using the EWS approach many still be a viable route. Glen has been putting out some great stuff at: EWS Managed API and Powershell How-To series Part 1