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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

Managing transport connectors


Transport connectors are used to control the routing of inbound and outbound emails. There are two types of connectors in Exchange: Send and Receive connectors

Send connector

This connector is used for outbound mail flow from Mailbox Servers. They are commonly used to transfer e-mail messages either to a smart host or directly to the recipient e-mail server using DNS.

You can retrieve the settings and configure and create new send connectors using the Get-SendConnector, Set-SendConnector, and New-SendConnector cmdlets.

The following command will display information about the Send connector named Internet:

Get-SendConnector "Internet" | Format-List

The FrontendProxyEnabled parameter of the Set-SendConnector cmdlet is used to route outbound e-mails through the CAS server role. The following example sets the FrontendProxyEnabled parameter to $true on a Send connector, which simplifies the outbound e-mail flow, especially if you are managing a large number of Exchange...