Where are the scripts in Exchange 2016?
Exchange has a folder with a complete suite of scripts that we use in the day-to-day managing activities or sometimes we are going to use only once, for example in a migration process if we need to migrate public folders to Exchange 2016 we need to use some scripts from this suite.
In addition, there are scripts to put in maintenance mode the server in case that we need to stop the DAG due to reboot the server in order to complete a patching process or shutdown the server for another different reason.
As well as exist the script to stop the DAG, as well exists the script to stop the maintenance mode or resume the mailbox databases copies.
Other scripts are used to security and hygiene activities for example enable or disable antimalware, install or uninstall antispam agents.
In the same suite we can find scripts to get metrics about the exchange organization, they have the capability to read information from the event logs of the servers in a DAG to gather information on databases mount, moves and failover over some range of time.
In some cases, the script has a xml file with the same name with help information, this file is very helpful because you can see all the details related to the script execution, for example what king of parameters you need to include in the script execution; also, what kind of information you need as output (data in the console, html or csv file, etc).
The path of the scripts in Exchange 2016 is C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts (in case you have installed Exchange in the C: drive) or you can use the exchange variable $exinstall who will send you to this directory:
As well you can use the exchange variable $exscripts to go directly to the scripts folder in Exchange 2016
This is the directory where you can see all scripts into the server
Remember always test the scripts in another environment different to production.
Tony Gonzalez 