I've run into an interesting problem that I haven't encountered before with Powershell, having to do with a simple function I wrote. Hopefully somebody can provide some insight.
I have 10 Hub transport servers in my Exchange 2010 environment, and 4 Edge transports. Because the 4 Edge transports are in a dmz and firewalled off, if I runget-transportservers | get-messagetrackinglog I have to wait for each of the 4 Edge servers to time out when I run a track, which is obviously not desirable. So I put a function in my powershell profile like this (pardon the poor formatting due to the forum editor):
function get-hubs{ get-transportserver | where {$_.name -notmatch "edgenameX" -and $_.name -notmatch "edgenameY" }
When I run get-hubs it works fine and returns the list of servers I want.
When I run get-hubs | get-messagetrackinglog I get no results, and no errors.
When I run get-transportserver | where {$_.name -notmatch "edgenameX" -and $_.name -notmatch "edgenameY" | get-messagetrackinglog I get the results I expect.
So the million dollar question is, why doesn't it work when I pipe the function to the tracking cmdlet?