Exchange: How to search by an email address?

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What if you have an email address, you want to know which object that email address belongs to? Mailbox or Distribution Group or Contact or Public Folder?

You have to keep searching by the following commands till you find your object. Open PowerShell and connect to Exchange (or Exchange Online).

Get-Mailbox | %{$_.EmailAddresses | ?{$_ -like “*<email address>*”}}

Get-RemoteMailbox | %{$_.EmailAddresses | ?{$_ -like “*<email address>*”}}
Get-DistributionGroup | %{$_.EmailAddresses | ?{$_ -like “*<email address>*”}}

Get-MailContact| %{$_.EmailAddresses | ?{$_ -like “*<email address>*”}}
Get-MailPublicFolder | %{$_.EmailAddresses | ?{$_ -like “*<email address>*”}}

 

Hope you saved some time and found your Exchange Object. Enjoy!!

Published by --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

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