Exchange 2019 Troubleshooting: Check a mail-queue that is giving an error with PowerShell

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In Exchange, you have the option to view your mail queues using the GUI interface and you can at a quick glance view the error of a specific domain or if something is wrong.

With Powershell, you can do the same thing. To firstly get a list of all the queues you run the following command:

  • Get-Queue

or if you have more than 1 Exchange 2019 server that is handling the transport then you can use this command to view that specific server:

  • Get-queue -Server Exchange-2019

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As we can see above, we have a problem with Exchange-2019\3.

To drill down into this queue and why its giving an error, we can use the following command:

  • Get-Queue -Identity Exchange-2019\3 | fl

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We can now see the same error as per the GUI and thus can troubleshoot further, in this case it is a DNS error as it cannot locate the FQDN of outlook.com