I'm trying to cobble a PS script together to pull information on a single mailbox. I'd like to check the status hourly of a mailbox to make sure it's receiving mail. Is there a way to pull the date / time of the last recieved mail?

Hi Sandy, This should give you date/time of last received items for all folders in mailbox. Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <UserID> -IncludeOldestAndNewestItems | Select Name, NewestItemReceivedDate Toverify just Inbox,here is the command... Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <UserID> -IncludeOldestAndNewestItems | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Inbox" }| Select Name, NewestItemReceivedDate Hope this helps..!!!

Thanks very much! This should do the job!

I found that the NewestItemReceiveDate returns UTC time. Any idea how to convert it back to local time?

Save the codeand give the name Get-NewestItemTime.ps1 and run like below command ./Get-NewestItemTime "User Name" Get-NewestItemTime.ps1 param( [string] $user = $(throw "Give me the user name")) $ni = Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $user -IncludeOldestAndNewestItems | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Inbox" } $ni.NewestItemReceivedDate.ToLocalTime() Hope this helps...!!!

Thanks! You are an absolute genius! It's works perfectly! I did have an issue with including the -IncludeOldestAdnNewestItems In the code...it threw an error that said a parameter could not be found that matches parameter name 'IncludeOldestAndNewestItems' I removed that paramter and it worked perfect however!

Glad to hear that it worked!!! I tested in SP1 with IncludeOldestAndNewestItems switch without error. Are you running with SP1?

No, I'm sure that's why. But to me this is still a quantum leap with what I have working, thanks to your help! I found a .ps1 script thatwill send smtp email based on a date/time comparison I need to add to the script. Our management want's to know if a certain mailbox is not getting email in over 1 hour.