How to cleanup exchange log files using powershell

I found an excellent article here that provided a nice PowerShell script to help automate the cleanup of Exchange related log files (tested on 2013/2016/2019).  I made a few modifications to add the following functonality

  • Support for command line parameters for base paths and number of days to keep
  • Support for WhatIf Parameter
  • Loading of default values for the paths from the registry
  • Keeping track of and displaying the amount of file space recovered
[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]
param(
    [string] $ExchangePath = (Split-Path (Get-ItemPropertyValue HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v15\Diagnostics MsiInstallPath)),
    [string] $IISPath = (Split-Path (Get-ItemPropertyValue HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp PathWWWRoot)),
    [int] $NumberOfDaysToKeep = 2
)

# Set execution policy if not set
$ExecutionPolicy = Get-ExecutionPolicy
if ($ExecutionPolicy -ne "RemoteSigned") {
    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force
}

# Cleanup logs older than the set of days in numbers
$days = $NumberOfDaysToKeep

# Path of the logs that you like to cleanup
$IISLogPath 			= "$IISPath\logs\LogFiles\"
$ExchangeLoggingPath 	= "$ExchangePath\Logging\"
$ETLLoggingPath 		= "$ExchangePath\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\ETLTraces\"
$ETLLoggingPath2 		= "$ExchangePath\Bin\Search\Ceres\Diagnostics\Logs\"

# Clean the logs
Function CleanLogfiles($TargetFolder) {
    Write-Host -Debug -ForegroundColor Green "Processing: $TargetFolder"

    $TotalSize = 0
    if (Test-Path $TargetFolder) {
        $Now = Get-Date
        $LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(-$days)
        $Files = Get-ChildItem $TargetFolder -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*.log" -or $_.Name -like "*.blg" -or $_.Name -like "*.etl" } | Where-Object { $_.lastWriteTime -le "$lastwrite" } | Select-Object FullName
        
        foreach ($File in $Files) {
            $FullFileName = $File.FullName  
            
            if (Test-Path $FullFileName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
                $TotalSize += (Get-Item -Path $FullFileName).Length
                Write-Host "`tDeleting: $FullFileName" -ForegroundColor Yellow 
                Remove-Item $FullFileName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WhatIf:$WhatIfPreference | out-null
            } else { 
                Write-Host "`tCannot Access: $FullFileName" -ForegroundColor Red
            }
        }
        
        Write-Host "`tTotal Space Recovered: $($($TotalSize/1GB).ToString('#.#')) Gb" -ForegroundColor Cyan
    }
    Else {
        Write-Host "The folder $TargetFolder doesn't exist! Check the folder path!" -ForegroundColor "red"
    }
    
    return $TotalSize
}

$spaceRecovered += CleanLogfiles($IISLogPath)
$spaceRecovered += CleanLogfiles($ExchangeLoggingPath)
$spaceRecovered += CleanLogfiles($ETLLoggingPath)
$spaceRecovered += CleanLogfiles($ETLLoggingPath2)

Write-Host "Total Space Recovered: $($($spaceRecovered/1GB).ToString('#.#')) Gb" -ForegroundColor Cyan

 

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