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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer
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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)

Performing Compliance searches

Another new feature introduced in Exchange 2016 is Compliance Search, which allows administrators to search all mailboxes in the organization. While In-Place eDiscovery is limited to search only up to 10,000 mailboxes, compliance search does not have such limitation, which is extremely helpful for large organizations that need to perform organization-wide searches.

Compliance search uses the New-ComplianceSearch cmdlet we already looked at in the Deleting messages from mailboxes using Compliance Search recipe from Chapter 4, Managing Mailboxes. Using this cmdlet, we can search all mailboxes in the organization and then use in-place eDiscovery to perform other eDiscovery-related tasks, such as placing mailboxes on hold or exporting search results.

In this recipe, we will look at how we can leverage the New-ComplianceSearch cmdlet to determine which...