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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer
Book Image

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer

Overview of this book

We start with a set of recipes on core PowerShell concepts. This will provide you with a foundation for the examples in the book. Next, you'll see how to implement some of the common exchange management shell tasks, so you can effectively write scripts with this latest release. You will then learn to manage Exchange recipients, automate recipient-related tasks in your environment, manage mailboxes, and understand distribution group management within the Exchange Management Shell. Moving on, we'll work through several scenarios where PowerShell scripting can be used to increase your efficiency when managing databases, which are the most critical resources in your Exchange environment. Towards the end, you'll discover how to achieve Exchange High Availability and how to secure your environment, monitor the health of Exchange, and integrate Exchange with Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server, and Exchange Online (Office 365). By the end of the book, you will be able to perform administrative tasks efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Searching and placing a hold on public folders

It is now also possible to search for content in public folders and place that same content on hold by using eDiscovery. This is important as many organizations still make extensive use of public folders to keep data, and not being able to easily search that data can only bring issues when trying to respond to legal requests.

In this recipe, we will see how to place a hold on public folder content using the Shell.

How to do it...

To place all content in all public folders on in-place hold for an unlimited hold duration, you use the following cmdlet:

    New-MailboxSearch -Name "All PFs Hold" -AllPublicFolderSources $True -AllSourceMailboxes $False -EstimateOnly -InPlaceHoldEnabled...