Troubleshooting Fileservers at capacity or with limited space and clearing large, old files

Problem:
Recently I had to find a fast way of clearing space on a fileserver that was literally at bursting point, the 2TB disk had just 100MB free space remaining.  I needed a way to identify the large, old files quickly so that I could then check with the file owners that they could be deleted.

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Getting to know the get-messagetrackinglog command in Microsoft Exchange

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I recently spent some time at a client that was asking for various pieces of information from their Microsoft Exchange server.   Most of what they wanted was quickly and easily accessible through the Exchange PowerShell commandlet get-messagetrackinglog.

First up was a simple command to show all entries from the message tracking log where the recipient of the email was test.comain.com. For this I used:

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