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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Banerjee
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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

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By: Banerjee

Overview of this book

PowerShell has become one of the most important skills in an Exchange administrator's armory. PowerShell has proved its mettle so widely that, if you're not already starting to learn PowerShell, then you're falling behind the industry. It isn't difficult to learn PowerShell at all. In fact, if you've ever run commands from a CMD prompt, then you'll be able to start using PowerShell straightaway. This book will walk you through the essentials of PowerShell in Microsoft Exchange Server and make sure you understand its nitty gritty effectively. You will first walk through the core concepts of PowerShell and their applications. This book discusses ways to automate tasks and activities that are performed by Exchange administrators and that otherwise take a lot of manual effort. Microsoft Exchange PowerShell Essentials will provide all the required details for Active Directory, System, and Exchange administrators to help them understand Windows PowerShell and build the required scripts to manage the Exchange Infrastructure.
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Understanding the help system

This section will cover the use of help in Windows PowerShell. The help topic for a particular command or conceptual help can assist an administrator who is new to Windows PowerShell or using a particular set of cmdlets to understand its syntax and usage.

The Help parameter (?)

The -? parameter with a cmdlet will display Windows PowerShell help for the cmdlet:

The Help parameter (?)

The Get-Help cmdlet

The Get-Help cmdlet displays help information about PowerShell cmdlets. Some of the examples are discussed as follows.

The following example gives you the help files from the PowerShell help system one page at a time:

PS C:\>get-help * | more

If you know the alias of the cmdlet you are trying to get help for, use the —detailed parameter for full help:

PS C:\>get-help gps -detailed

If you are not sure of the exact parameter but remember the initial letter, use the following to get help:

PS C:\>get-help get-process -parameter i*

This lists all the parameters of the cmdlet get-process:

PS C:\>get-help get-process -Parameter *

This provides help with the syntax of the select-object cmdlet:

PS C:\>(get-help select-object).syntax

There are other properties of the help object such as input types, module name, examples, and more. If you are looking to find all the properties and methods of help object type called get-help <cmdlet-name> | get-member, for example, PS C:\> get-help get-Service | get-member.

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