Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Biswanath Banerjee

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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By: Biswanath Banerjee

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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.

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with PowerShell

Introducing Windows PowerShell

Understanding PowerShell syntax

Understanding the help system

Understanding Logging and Transcripts

Using filters and exporting data

Using If statements

Switch statements

Writing a basic script

Summary

Learning Recipient Management

Managing users

Managing permissions

Managing folder/calendar permission

Managing room mailboxes

Import export of objects

Connecting from Remote computers

Mailbox reporting

Automation with scripting agents

Writing a basic script

Summary

Handling Distribution Groups

Introducing distribution groups

Managing distribution groups

Managing distribution group permissions

Managing distribution group members

Converting group types

Automation with dynamic Distribution groups

Writing an advance script

Summary

Exchange Security

Components of Role Based Access Control

Managing Role Based Access Control

Managing exchange certificates

Managing Application Relaying emails

Managing External access of Exchange Admin Center

Writing a basic script

Summary

Everything about Microsoft Exchange Policies

Introducing Exchange Policies

Creating and managing E-mail Address Policies

Creating and managing Address Book policies

Creating and managing Retention Policies

Writing a basic script

Summary

Handling Exchange Server Roles

Configuring POP, IMAP, ActiveSync, and Outlook Anywhere

Managing Client Access Servers

Managing transport connectors

Managing DSN Messages

Managing Message tracking logs

Managing transport queues

Managing Public Folder Mailboxes

Writing a basic script

Summary

Auditing and E-Discovery

New features in Exchange 2016

The In-Place hold

Retrieving and exporting e-mails for Auditing using In-Place E-discovery

Retrieving content using KQL queries

Searching and removing e-mails from the server

Enable Auditing and understanding its usage

Writing a basic script

Summary

Managing High Availability

Managing Database Availability Groups

Managing Database Copies

Controlling high availability failover mechanisms

Database Availability Group health checks

Database Availability Group Maintenance tasks

Writing a basic script

Summary

Exploring EWS Managed API

Introducing Exchange Web Services

Understanding the EWS managed API

Writing basic EWS managed API code

Creating custom folders in Mailboxes

Writing a basic script

Summary

Common Administration Tasks

Managing Active Sync devices

Managing Databases

Managing Transport rules and adding disclaimers

Managing Non-Delivery Reports

Managing Active Directory Attributes

Removing old log files

Health check commands

Summary

Index

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Using If statements

In this section, we will use the if conditional statement If to execute statements based on a specific condition test to be true. We can also use the If command to do tests on more than one condition or even if all the other conditions are evaluated to be false.

The following example shows the If statement syntax:

        if (<Condition1>) 
                {<Command Block 1>}
        [elseif (<Condition2>)
                {<Command Block 2>}]
        [else
                {<Command Block 3>}]

We will use the if command to check the status of the services running on the computer, and if the status is stopped, it will be displayed in red and the running services will be displayed in green. We will use a combination of pipeline, the foreach-object cmdlet, and the if statement.

PS C:\> get-service | foreach-object {if ($_.status -eq "stopped") {write-host -foregroundcolor red $_.Displayname}` else {write-host -foregroundcolor green $_.Displayname }}

Let's take a look at another example where you would like to find whether a particular folder is created. We will use a Test-Path cmdlet, which will return true if it finds the folder and false if it does not. As I am using the statement on my Active Directory domain controller, the folder is not present under Program Files, and this is what you will see in the output:

PS C:\> $ExchangeFolder = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server"
PS C:\> $FolderPresent = Test-Path $ExchangeFolder
PS C:\> if ($FolderPresent -eq $True) {Write-Host "Exchange installation Folder found on this Server"} else {Write-Host "Exchange installation folder not present"}
Exchange installation folder not present

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Biswanath Banerjee

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By: Biswanath Banerjee

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