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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 Public Folder Mailboxes


The Public folder architecture has been overhauled in Exchange 2013, and the new architecture is being used in Exchange 2016 as well. Compared to the previous releases of Exchange, Public folders in Exchange 2013 now use the mailbox infrastructure. This helps in utilizing the existing high availability and disaster recovery techniques used for Public folders. There is no public folder database in Exchange 2013/2016; instead, we have public folder mailboxes that store hierarchy and content.

There are primary and secondary hierarchy mailboxes with the difference that one stores a writable copy of the public folder hierarchy, while the other stores the read-only copy. Both of these mailboxes can also store content in them.

The management of Public folders can be done by the Exchange Admin Center and Exchange management shell. In the Exchange management shell, these are the following parameters added to support Public folders with the *-Mailbox cmdlets:

  • PublicFolder...