Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook, 3rd Edition

Over 120 recipes to help you manage and administrate Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 with PowerShell 5

About This Book

• Explore the new features and capabilities of PowerShell 5 and its integration with Exchange Server 2013
• Learn how to write scripts and functions, schedule scripts to run automatically, and generate complex reports with PowerShell
• Manage and automate every element of Exchange Server 2013 with PowerShell such as Mailboxes, distribution groups, and Address lists

Who This Book Is For

This book is for messaging professionals who want to build real-world scripts with Windows PowerShell 5 and the Exchange Management Shell. If you are a network or systems administrator responsible for managing and maintaining Exchange Server 2013, you will find this highly useful.

What You Will Learn

• New features and capabilities of PowerShell 5 and Exchange Server 2013 SP1
• Get to grips with the core PowerShell concepts required to master the Exchange Management Shell, such as pipelining, working with objects, formatting output, and writing scripts
• Use simple PowerShell scripts and commands to get powerful effects
• Generate detailed reports, send the output of commands in e-mail messages, and schedule scripts to run automatically
• Import, export, move mailboxes, and delete messages from mailboxes using the command line
• Configure transport server settings such as mail relay, tracking logs, transport rules, delivery reports, and more
• Manage mailbox and public folder databases

In Detail

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a complex messaging system. Windows PowerShell 5 can be used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2013 to automate and manage routine and complex tasks to save time and money and eliminate errors.

Starting by going through key PowerShell concepts and the Exchange Management Shell, this book will get you automating tasks that used to take hours in no time. Diving deeper, you will then manage your mailbox database, client access, and your transport servers with simple but effective scripts.

This book finishes with advanced recipes on Exchange Server problems, such as managing distribution groups and maintaining high availability and security.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: PowerShell Key Concepts
Chapter 2: Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks
Chapter 3: Managing Recipients
Chapter 4: Managing Mailboxes
Chapter 5: Distribution Groups and Address Lists
Chapter 6: Mailbox Database Management
Chapter 7: Managing Client Access
Chapter 8: Managing Transport Servers
Chapter 9: High Availability
Chapter 10: Exchange Security
Chapter 11: Compliance and Audit Logging
Chapter 12: Scripting with the Exchange Web Services Managed API
Appendix A: Common Shell Information
Appendix B: Query Syntaxes