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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

Creating and managing Address Book policies


In Exchange 2010 SP2, Address Book Policies were introduced to help administrators segregate the address lists between different departments or business units within a single Exchange organization. There was a whitepaper on how to segregate address lists using Exchange 2007, but it was complicated, and there was limited support while upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP2 or the Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) platforms, which were primarily used by commercial e-mail hosters to host multiple customers on a single exchange organization, creating a logical isolation between the customer's organizations.

Address Book Policies (ABPs) contain the following:

  • One or more address lists

  • One default address list

  • One room address list

  • One offline address book

You can create multiple Address Book Policies (ABPs) such as the one in the picture and assign it to mailbox users. They take effect when the user's application tries to connect to e-mail address book service...