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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

Writing a basic script


As this book is about managing Exchange using PowerShell, let's use the PowerShell client to save a draft message in the administrator's mailbox. I have installed the EWS managed API 2.2 at C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.2, which is the default location. You can install it on any other location and ensure that the correct path is referenced.

In my lab, I am using Exchange 2013 Service Pack1, but the process is similar in Exchange 2016 and Exchange online. The only thing that you need to understand is how to target the correct Exchange version that is described next.

The first step is to import the Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll module in PowerShell using a variable:

$EWSDllPath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\2.2\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll"
Import-Module $EWSDllPath

The next step is to create the service object just as we did in the earlier sections using C# code in Visual Studio:

$Exchange2013 = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange...