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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.

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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials
Biswanath Banerjee
Feb, 2016 | 210 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with PowerShell
Getting Started with PowerShell
Introducing Windows PowerShell
Understanding PowerShell syntax
Understanding the help system
Understanding Logging and Transcripts
Using variables
Using pipelines
Using loops
Using arrays
Using filters and exporting data
Using If statements
Switch statements
Writing a basic script
Summary
2
Learning Recipient Management
Learning Recipient Management
Managing users
Managing permissions
Managing folder/calendar permission
Managing room mailboxes
Import export of objects
Connecting from Remote computers
Mailbox reporting
Automation with scripting agents
Writing a basic script
Summary
3
Handling Distribution Groups
Handling Distribution Groups
Introducing distribution groups
Managing distribution groups
Managing distribution group permissions
Managing distribution group members
Converting group types
Automation with dynamic Distribution groups
Writing an advance script
Summary
4
Exchange Security
Exchange Security
Components of Role Based Access Control
Managing Role Based Access Control
Managing exchange certificates
Managing Application Relaying emails
Managing External access of Exchange Admin Center
Writing a basic script
Summary
5
Everything about Microsoft Exchange Policies
Everything about Microsoft Exchange Policies
Introducing Exchange Policies
Creating and managing E-mail Address Policies
Creating and managing Address Book policies
Creating and managing Retention Policies
Writing a basic script
Summary
6
Handling Exchange Server Roles
Handling Exchange Server Roles
Configuring POP, IMAP, ActiveSync, and Outlook Anywhere
Managing Client Access Servers
Managing transport connectors
Managing DSN Messages
Managing Message tracking logs
Managing transport queues
Managing Public Folder Mailboxes
Writing a basic script
Summary
7
Auditing and E-Discovery
Auditing and E-Discovery
New features in Exchange 2016
The In-Place hold
Retrieving and exporting e-mails for Auditing using In-Place E-discovery
Retrieving content using KQL queries
Searching and removing e-mails from the server
Enable Auditing and understanding its usage
Writing a basic script
Summary
8
Managing High Availability
Managing High Availability
Managing Database Availability Groups
Managing Database Copies
Controlling high availability failover mechanisms
Database Availability Group health checks
Database Availability Group Maintenance tasks
Writing a basic script
Summary
9
Exploring EWS Managed API
Exploring EWS Managed API
Introducing Exchange Web Services
Understanding the EWS managed API
Writing basic EWS managed API code
Creating custom folders in Mailboxes
Writing a basic script
Summary
10
Common Administration Tasks
Common Administration Tasks
Managing Active Sync devices
Managing Databases
Managing Transport rules and adding disclaimers
Managing Non-Delivery Reports
Managing Active Directory Attributes
Removing old log files
Health check commands
Summary
Index
Index

Writing a basic script

Here is a simple script that will put a DAG member into maintenance mode and display the result of the component states at the end. We have covered the commands in DAG Maintenance section. The first IF statement will check if the target server is a mailbox server; if it is not, it will exit. I have used the Green Foreground color, but feel free to use a color of your choice based on your Exchange Management shell background. The file name used to save this script is the Start-MaintenanceMode.ps1 file. It takes two mandatory parameters: Server and TargetServerFQDN. Here is an example of putting mailbox server Exch2 in the maintenance mode. Exch3 is another mailbox server, which is part of the same DAG01:

<#Start-MaintenanceMode.ps1 –Server Exch2 –TargetServerFQDN Exch3.contoso.com
#===========
#Parameters
#===========
Param
(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
               ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
               Position=0)]
    [string]$Server=$env:COMPUTERNAME...
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