Powershell Office 365: Building a Hash Table and a Custom PSObject to Get-UserInfo

Here is a script that will quickly tell you some mailbox information and some mailbox statistics for an Exchange Online such as Office 365 mailbox. This will also work with Exchange Shell on Exchange 2013 on Premises.

The data is collated from 2 different cmdlets, Get-MsolUser and Get-MailboxStatistics. The data is then used to create an advanced function called Get-UserInfo.

This post serves as a demonstration in building a hash table and a custom PSObject, one of the most important aspects of PowerShell scripting. It also serves to demonstrate the principal of gathering output from various cmdlets and bringing them together as one.

It has been assumed that you have installed the PowerShell Module called MSOnline and authenticated to Office 365 via PowerShell in the usual way.

If you were to "Dot Source" the script using PowerShell.exe then you would run it with the following :

Get-UserInfo -UPN user@mail.com -Verbose -ErrorLog

This script example will only support one UserPrincipalName input although can be easily changed to accept multiple, CSV input and accross the pipeline if required. This is outwith the scope of this post.

Here is the script:

function Get-UserInfo {

<#
.Synopsis
   Making use of both Get-MsolUser and Get-MailboxStatistics to create Get-UserInfo
.DESCRIPTION
   Get-UserInfo combines properties from both Get-MsolUser and Get-MailboxStatistics to create a custom PS Object. 
   This Custom PS Object provides information on mailbox, the user and mailbox statistics too.
.EXAMPLE

   PS C:\> Get-UserInfo -UPN user@mail.com

    Main Email            : user@mail.com
    Real Name             : Test User
    Location              : 
    Has License           : True
    Has Archive           : False
    Has Clutter           : False
    No of Proxy Addresses : 3

.EXAMPLE

    PS C:\> Get-UserInfo -UPN user@mail.com -Verbose -ErrorLog

    VERBOSE: Error logging turned on

    Main Email            : user@mail.com
    Real Name             : Test User
    Location              : 
    Has License           : True
    No of Proxy Addresses : 6
    Has Archive           : False
    Has Clutter           : False

.INPUTS
   String
.OUTPUTS
   Custom PS Object
#>

    [CmdletBinding()]

    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,ValueFromPipeline=$True)]
        [String]$UPN,
        [Switch]$ErrorLog,
        [String]$LogFile = 'c:\temp\errorlog.txt'
    )

    Begin {
    
            If($errorLog){
                Write-Verbose 'Error logging turned on'
            } Else {
                Write-Verbose 'Error logging turned off'
            }
            Foreach($C in $ComputerName){
                Write-Verbose "Computer: $Computer"
            }   

    }

    Process {

        try {

        $User = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $UPN -ErrorAction Stop
        $Stats = Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity $UPN -ErrorAction Stop

        $props = [ordered]@{ 
                    'Main Email'=$User.UserPrincipalName
                    'Real Name'=$User.DisplayName
                    'Location'=$User.City
                    'Has License'=$User.isLicensed
                    'No of Proxy Addresses'=($User.ProxyAddresses).Count
                    'Has Archive'=$Stats.IsArchiveMailbox
                    'Has Clutter'=$Stats.IsClutterEnabled
                  }

        $Obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props
        Write-Output $Obj

        } catch {
            
        }

    }

    End {}
}

Alan

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