If you’ve deployed mailbox sent items configurations in your organization, and are planning to upgrade to Exchange Server 2013 (which does not currently support mailbox sent items configurations like Exchange 2010 SP3 does), then you may wish to run an audit of those configurations to determine the impact of the upgrade.

I’ve written a PowerShell script to perform this audit and produce a CSV file with the results.

Download the script file from Github

Running AuditMailboxSentItemsConfiguration.ps1

The script is run from the Exchange Management Shell and uses switches to control the scope of the audit.

-All audits all mailboxes in the organization

audits all mailboxes in the organization -Database audits the mailboxes on a specified database

audits the mailboxes on a specified database -Server audits the mailboxes on a specified server

For smaller organizations -All is probably going to be fine to use, but larger orgs may consider using -Database or -Server instead. Example:

[PS] C:ScriptsAuditMailboxSentItemsConfiguration>.AuditMailboxSentItemsConfiguration.ps1 -all -Verbose WARNING: Active Directory server settings remained unchanged. VERBOSE: Fetching mailbox list Processing Mary Friel Processing Administrator Processing Alan Reid Processing Alex Heyne .... Processing Sharnjit Mcilroy Processing Ben Brook Processing Jennifer Tind Processing Karen Roberts Processing John Tilleray Processing zhire test Processing test01 Processing James Blanko Processing Marketing VERBOSE: - Send as: SenderAndFrom VERBOSE: - Send on Behalf: SenderAndFrom VERBOSE: Adding Marketing to report Results output to MailboxSentItemsConfigReport-20140412-1528-D9zJPX.csv. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 [ PS ] C : ScriptsAuditMailboxSentItemsConfiguration & gt ; . AuditMailboxSentItemsConfiguration . ps1 - all - Verbose WARNING : Active Directory server settings remained unchanged . VERBOSE : Fetching mailbox list Processing Mary Friel Processing Administrator Processing Alan Reid Processing Alex Heyne . . . . Processing Sharnjit Mcilroy Processing Ben Brook Processing Jennifer Tind Processing Karen Roberts Processing John Tilleray Processing zhire test Processing test01 Processing James Blanko Processing Marketing VERBOSE : - Send as : SenderAndFrom VERBOSE : - Send on Behalf : SenderAndFrom VERBOSE : Adding Marketing to report Results output to MailboxSentItemsConfigReport - 20140412 - 1528 - D9zJPX . csv .

If any mailboxes with a non-default sent items configuration are found they are included in the CSV file that is output to the same folder where the script is running from. As always for any feedback or problems you encounter with script please leave a comment below.