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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Biswanath Banerjee
Book Image

Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By: Biswanath 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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mailbox reporting


In this section, we will review a simple example where certain selected or all the properties of mailbox objects can be exported to a CSV file for review. For instance, you are an administrator of a company who is planning to move to Exchange Online and wants to find out the mailbox sizes of the user mailboxes.

We will use a combination of Get-Mailbox, Get-MailboxStatistics, Select-Object, and Export-CSV cmdlets:

Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select-Object DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Export-CSV "ExistingMailboxSize.csv"

Based on your requirements, you can build a complex script that can take multiple parameters as input, will do data conversion, and even send an email to specific people displaying the report in the HTML format. A simple example of a script is shared in the last topic of this chapter.