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Exchange 2016: Check your Outlook Web Services with simple PowerShell command

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In Exchange 2016, there are a couple of cmdlets you can run to check that you servers are in a healthy state. In 1x example, you could run the following command to check the Outlook Web Services:

Test-OutlookWebServices

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If you want to specify a specific server then you can run the command below:

Test-OutlookWebServices -ClientAccessServer ex2016b

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You will notice the ServiceEndpoint changed from the previous screen. In the 1 we have a successful result and the other a failure which will need to be investigated.

The cmdlet allows you to specify a different users credentials using the "MailboxCredential" option in the cmdlet.