Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-11-19

Use the New-AvailabilityReportOutage cmdlet to create an outage to add unrecorded issues to availability reporting.

Syntax

New-AvailabilityReportOutage -SiteName <String> -Comment <String> -DowntimeMinutes <Double> -ReportDate <ExDateTime> [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-Force <SwitchParameter>] [-ReportingDatabase <String>] [-ReportingServer <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

Detailed Description

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although all parameters for this cmdlet are listed in this topic, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To see what permissions you need, see the "Test system health" entry in the Exchange and Shell Infrastructure Permissions topic.

Parameters

Parameter Required Type Description

Comment

Required

System.String

The Comment parameter specifies why the outage was inserted.

DowntimeMinutes

Required

System.Double

The DowntimeMinutes parameter specifies the number of minutes of downtime to insert into the outage report.

ReportDate

Required

Microsoft.Exchange.ExchangeSystem.ExDateTime

The ReportDate parameter specifies the date to query for the outage report.

SiteName

Required

System.String

The SiteName parameter specifies the name of the Active Directory site to associate the outage report with.

Confirm

Optional

System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter

The Confirm switch can be used to suppress the confirmation prompt that appears by default when this cmdlet is run. To suppress the confirmation prompt, use the syntax -Confirm:$False. You must include a colon ( : ) in the syntax.

Force

Optional

System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter

The Force parameter suppresses the warning or confirmation messages that appear during specific configuration changes.

ReportingDatabase

Optional

System.String

The ReportingDatabase parameter specifies the name of the database on the reporting server.

ReportingServer

Optional

Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Fqdn

The ReportingServer parameter specifies the name of the reporting database server to connect to.

WhatIf

Optional

System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter

The WhatIf switch instructs the command to simulate the actions that it would take on the object. By using the WhatIf switch, you can view what changes would occur without having to apply any of those changes. You don't have to specify a value with the WhatIf switch.

Input Types

To see the input types that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Input Type field for a cmdlet is blank, the cmdlet doesn’t accept input data.

Return Types

To see the return types, which are also known as output types, that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Output Type field is blank, the cmdlet doesn’t return data.

Examples

EXAMPLE 1

This example creates a timed injected outage scoped to site Site1 on the selected date to record downtime not recorded by Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

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New-AvailabilityReportOutage -ReportDate:"2009-12-02" -Site:"Site1" -DowntimeMinutes:120 -Comment:"Downtime not recorded by System Center Operations Manager 2007"