Problem with Exchange server monitoring

[Sebastian T Xavier]

Hello All, I have a problem with Exchange server 2007. I was trying to execute the following query get-mailbox | FL. This query was working when I tried it in the Exchange server's power shell console after executing following query Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin. But I need it to be executed from a remote machine, so I have executed it from my powershell console , as follows... $server='192.168.1.23';$pwd= convertto-securestring '123' -asplaintext -force;$cred=new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist 'exchangeserver\Administrator',$pwd; invoke-command -computername $server -credential $cred -scriptblock {Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin get-mailbox | FL} But, this query fails with the following error...

A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'get-mailbox'.

+CategoryInfo :InvalidArgument: {:} [Add-PSSnapin], ParameterBIndingException
+FullyQualifiedErrorId: PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Powershell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

I have modified this query again and added a ; after the snapin add section. $server='192.168.1.23';$pwd= convertto-securestring '123' -asplaintext -force;$cred=new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist 'exchangeserver\Administrator',$pwd; invoke-command -computername $server -credential $cred -scriptblock {Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin; get-mailbox | FL} This is also fails with the following error.

Active Directory server exchangeserver.xxxxxx.local is not available. Error message: The supplied credential is invalid.

 + CategoryInfo           :   NotSpecified: <0:int32> \[Get-MailBox\],ADOperationException
 + FullyQualifiedErrorId  :   A2B6F75B,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.GetMailbox

Then I have removed the add-snap-in section from the command and executed again. $server='192.168.1.23';$pwd= convertto-securestring '123' -asplaintext -force;$cred=new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist 'exchangeserver\Administrator',$pwd; invoke-command -computername $server -credential $cred -scriptblock {get-mailbox | FL} Now it throws another error message.

The term 'get-mailbox' is not recognised as the name of a cmdlet, function,