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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Biswanath Banerjee
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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

Managing Application Relaying emails


In this section, you will learn how to relay emails through Exchange 2013/2016 servers to internal and external recipients. In Exchange 2013, the Client Access Server role runs a service called Frontend Transport service, which is responsible for email filtering using antispam agents and routing of emails between your Exchange organization and the outside world. The architecture of Exchange 2016 has been further simplified, and it has only the Mailbox server role with required transport services that were earlier handled by the Client Access and Mailbox Roles in Exchange 2013.

There are two additional Transport services hosted by the Mailbox Server roles in Exchange 2013. In Exchange 2016, you will find all these services on the Mailbox Server role:

  • The transport service: This service is responsible for performing email routing within the Exchange organization such as the Hub Transport server in the previous versions of Exchange. Unlike previous versions...