PowerShell - Get-MessageTrackingReport how to specify start and end time of current process

Question

could you please help me? I need to specify start and end time of current process with Get-MessageTrackingReport command. I know you
can do it with Get-MessageTrackingLog:
$start = (Get-Date).Addhours(-1)
$end = (Get-Date)
Get-MessageTrackingLog -EvenId Receive -Start $start -End $end
But for my purposes I really need to do it with Get-MessageTrackingReport command, so how can I do it?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

That's not the context you would use
Get-MessageTrackingReport in,
Get-MessageTrackingReport is used to get extra information on messages that you have found in the MessageTracking log using Search-MessageTrackingReport . That's why the most common example you see will look like
$Temp = Search-MessageTrackingReport -Identity "David Jones" -Recipients "[email protected]"
Get-MessageTrackingReport -Identity $Temp.MessageTrackingReportID -ReportTemplate Summary
The most important parameter for that cmdlet and the reason it won't work like your trying to use it is the
Identity ""The Identity parameter specifies the ID of the message tracking report ID to retrieve.You should run the Search-MessageTrackingReport cmdlet
to find the message tracking report ID for the specific message you're tracking, and then pass the value of the MessageTrackingReportID field
to this parameter." see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351082%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
It's more appropriate to use Get-MessageTrackingLog when you want to search the log based on time or use
Search-MessageTrackingReport and then limit the results this returns before you pass the MessageTrackingReportId to get-MessageTrackingReport
Cheers
Glen