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Jakub Krupa
Jakub Krupa

Reputation: 67

Get current Exchange Server

I'm using EMS. When invoking Get-ExchangeServer command I'm getting list of available Exchange servers.

Now the question:

How to get current Exchange server (the one I've invoked Get-ExchangeServer command on)?

Can anyone advice how to achieve it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1541

Answers (2)

behrooz amiri
behrooz amiri

Reputation: 61

  • Short Answer:

    Get-ExchangeServer | select PSComputerName,OriginatingServer -Unique

  • Explanation (Long Answer):

    The output of the command Get-ExchangeServer, already have the members that you are interested in :

PS:\ > Get-ExchangeServer | Get-Member

Name                    MemberType     (my explanation)
----                    ----------     -----------------
.                       .              .
PSComputerName          NoteProperty   It's the current ExchangeServer (the one that actually your command has been executed on)
OriginatingServer       Property       It's the current DomainController (the one that your ExchangeServer has used for the query)
.                       .              .

Then, using EMS or PSRemoting, It always returns what you want. however, the output may include multiple rows with the same value if you have more than one ExchangeServer in your environment. like :

PS:\ > Get-ExchangeServer | select PSComputerName,OriginatingServer

PSComputerName OriginatingServer      
-------------- -----------------      
exch-srv2      dc3.contoso.com
exch-srv2      dc3.contoso.com
.              .

that's why you can use -unique while doing Select, to avoid duplicate rows within the output.

PS:\ > Get-ExchangeServer | select PSComputerName,OriginatingServer -Unique

PSComputerName OriginatingServer      
-------------- -----------------      
exch-srv2      dc3.contoso.com

Upvotes: 0

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 7000

Use the environment variable $ENV:COMPUTERNAME to retrieve the server name of the exchange server that you are invoking the command on. 

Invoke-Command -ComputerName Exchange.domain.com `
               -ScriptBlock {Get-ExchangeServer -Identity $ENV:COMPUTERNAME} `
               -Credential (Get-Credential)

Upvotes: 1

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