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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

Writing a basic script


There are times when, as an administrator, you need secondary SMTP addresses to be added to mailboxes.

You can use a .csv file to list all the users with their alias and new e-mail addresses in the following format and save it as the E-mailAddresses.csv file:

alias,e-mailaddress
hollyh,[email protected]
amya,[email protected]
susanb,[email protected]

Then, use the following command either directly on Exchange Management Shell or save it in a .PS1 file:

Import-Csv c:\Scripts\E-mailaddresses.csv | Foreach{set-mailbox -identity $_.Alias -E-mailAddresses @{add=$_.e-mailaddress}}