Powershell command to check when was the last time Managed Folder Assitant was run.

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Powershell command to check when was the last time Managed Folder Assitant was run.

Abhimanyu Sharma 86

Powershell command to check when was the last time Managed Folder Assistant was run and need powershell command to check if Managed Folder Assistant is working or not for a user. (That means whether the emails items has been moved or not).

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Vasil Michev 119.7K MVP Volunteer Moderator

You need to look into the mailbox diagnostic logs for this info, specifically the ELCLastSuccessTimestamp. Here's how to get it:

Export-MailboxDiagnosticLogs vasil -ExtendedProperties

Since it returns an XML blob, you might as well cast it as xml and do this:

[xml]$diag = (Export-MailboxDiagnosticLogs vasil -ExtendedProperties).MailboxLog
$diag.Properties.MailboxTable.Property | ? {$_.Name -like "ELC*"}

which will spill out all the relevant props:

Name                                    Value
----                                    -----
ElcLastRunTotalProcessingTime           169632
ElcLastRunSubAssistantProcessingTime    128305
ElcLastRunUpdatedFolderCount            15
ElcLastRunTaggedFolderCount             0
ElcLastRunUpdatedItemCount              7
ElcLastRunTaggedWithArchiveItemCount    7
ElcLastRunTaggedWithExpiryItemCount     5
ElcLastRunDeletedFromRootItemCount      14
ElcLastRunDeletedFromDumpsterItemCount  0
ElcLastRunArchivedFromRootItemCount     242
ElcLastRunArchivedFromDumpsterItemCount 0
ELCLastSuccessTimestamp                 5/17/2022 7:48:23 PM
ElcLastRunSkippedNoTagItemCount         0
ElcLastRunSkippedWithTagItemCount       0
ElcLastRunSkippedNotExcludedItemCount   0
ElcFaiSaveStatus                        SaveSucceeded
ElcFaiDeleteStatus                      DeleteNotAttempted

Abhimanyu Sharma 86 Reputation points

2022-05-18T17:39:12.903+00:00
The above command works fine for my account. But aren't we have any other PowerShell command that tells the no. of items moved from eg: Inbox to online archive or folder to online archive.

Because , we have encountered with an issue, find the whole description below:

User's mailbox usage has reached 99GB and hence, user's Inbox wasn't updating. - Online Archiving is already enabled for user, for mails older than 1 year. - We changed the retention policy to 6 months and ran MFA. - We waited for more than 24 hours and mails have still not moved to Online Archive and mailbox usage is still 99GB. - We've checked and Retention Hold is not enabled. Can you please assist let us know what could be an issue? - User is assigned Office 365 E3. - On Outlook, Cache mode is set to 6 Months
Vasil Michev 119.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-05-18T17:51:24.687+00:00

The properties above tell you the number of items processed during the last run. Keep in mind that running the Start-ManagedFolderAssistant cmdlet does not immediately trigger MFA processing, it only "signals" the server to process it when there are spare resources available, but the SLA in Exchange Online is 7 days.
You can always move some items yourself instead of waiting, either manually of via some EWS-based script, such as the one here: https://github.com/David-Barrett-MS/PowerShell-EWS-Scripts/wiki/Merge-MailboxFolders.ps1

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Abhimanyu Sharma 86

But if run MFA command multiple times , we're able to forcefully move emails items. As per my observation.

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