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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Exchange Messages Missing From The MessageTrackingLog

In my Exchange 2016 environment, we run an Edge server, which is where I generally do message tracking; this gives a better picture of message flow, since all external mail goes in or out of the Edge.

If you don't run an Edge server, you'll need to do message tracking on your Mailbox Servers.

The issue,is, just running the Get-MessageTrackingLog on one Mailbox server, searches only on that server, which means some messages that you know went out, are missing from the log.

So, we need a way to search the log on every server we have. PowerShell makes it easy!

Fire up an Exchange Management Shell on one of your Mailbox Servers, or on your Exchange Management Tools machine and run the following:

$Servers = Get-ExchangeServer;  $Servers | where {$_.isHubTransportServer -eq $true -or $_.isMailboxServer -eq $true} | Get-MessageTrackingLog -recipients email@address.com -start 05/23/2017

**Note** Change email@address.com to the email addy you're working with and change the -start date

Now, your message tracking searches will show all messages not just the ones local to a server.

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