How to Search for a Exchange Log file Text Pattern with Powershell recursive

This is equal to GREP or WINGREP but with Powershell. People would say use Search Function but this may be slow or incomplete.

XP/2003 Search worked but the 2008R2/W7 Search function does not seem to be much loved.

You may have to enable Messagetracking Logging first. Here is the easiest way:

Transport

Receive Connector / Empfangs Connectoren

Start the Blue Windows 2008R2 Powershell:

Change to the Exchange LOGS Path:

Cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles\Logs\MessageTracking"

Display on Screen:

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Get-Content | Select-String -pattern "m.butsch@maildomain.com"

Write into Logfile:

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Get-Content | Select-String -pattern "m.butsch@maildomain.com" > d:\edv\logs.txt

There will be an error because he has no permission to read INDEX files.