I just need to move the first 10 Mailboxes in exchange ? Wow what a question :)

I was working on a case today with one of my team member and the customer asked us a question

I just need to move the first 10 Mailboxes in exchange ?

Now after a lot of thoughts I was able to get to the requirement what the customer had asked :)

This can be done in the following way.

$a= get-mailbox -Database "mailbox database" | Select-Object name -First 10

Now if we Just type $a I should be just getting the names of the first 10 mailboxes on the mailbox database

Your output would be something like this

Name
----
Administrator
User1
User2
User3
USer4
User5
User6
User7
User8
User9

Lets assume that

we want to move the databases from Mailbox Database to a database called Testdb.

In exchange 2007 We would be using the following command

foreach ($b in $a) {Move-Mailbox -Identity $b.name -TargetDatabase testdb}

In exchange 2010 We would be using the following command

foreach ($b in $a) {New-moverequest -Identity $b.name -TargetDatabase testdb}

If you need to move the first 100 just change the value after -first from 10 to 100

More to come on this blog :)

Have fun with Powershell and exchange :)