Thomas' Tech Talk

Sometines you want to select all non-default receive connectors for further processing in PowerShell. The following simple example selects all receive connectors excluding the connectors using server name as part of the connector name.

When querying the receive connectors for a server you will get all configured connectors.

Get-ReceiveConnector -Server $Server | ft -AutoSize

Identity                                  Bindings Enabled
--------                                  -------- -------
DEHVNEX1\Default DEHVNEX1                 {0.0.0.0:2525, [::]:2525} True
DEHVNEX1\Client Proxy DEHVNEX1            {[::]:465, 0.0.0.0:465}   True
DEHVNEX1\Default Frontend DEHVNEX1        {[::]:25, 0.0.0.0:25}     True
DEHVNEX1\Outbound Proxy Frontend DEHVNEX1 {[::]:717, 0.0.0.0:717}   True
DEHVNEX1\Client Frontend DEHVNEX1         {[::]:587, 0.0.0.0:587}   True
DEHVNEX1\Anonymous Relay                  {0.0.0.0:25}              True
DEHVNEX1\From Veruna-BER                  {0.0.0.0:25}              True
DEHVNEX1\APPS-Relay                       {0.0.0.0:25}              True

The following PowerShell query excludes the receive connectors as mentioned.

$server='DEHVNEX1'

Get-ReceiveConnector -Server $Server | `
?{(([string]$_.Identity).Split('\')[1]) -notlike "*$($Server)*"} | `
ft -AutoSize

Identity                 Bindings     Enabled
--------                 --------     -------
DEHVNEX1\Anonymous Relay {0.0.0.0:25} True
DEHVNEX1\From Veruna-BER {0.0.0.0:25} True
DEHVNEX1\APPS-Relay      {0.0.0.0:25} True

If you want to reuse the filtered output for further processing, simply store the output in a variable, e.g., $ReceiveConnectors.

$ReceiveConnectors=Get-ReceiveConnector -Server $Server | `
?{(([string]$_.Identity).Split('\')[1]) -notlike "*$($Server)*"}

This is a basic example and should encourage you to extend it to fit your needs in your Exchange Server environment.

Enjoy Exchange Server.