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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)

Performing maintenance on Database Availability Group members

When it comes to performing maintenance on servers that are part of a DAG, you'll need to move any active databases off to another member in the DAG. This will allow you to install patches or take the server down for hardware repairs or upgrades without affecting database availability and user connectivity. This recipe will show you how to use some of the built-in PowerShell scripts installed by Exchange 2016 that can be used to place a server in and out of maintenance mode.

How to do it...

Let's look at how to perform maintenance on a DAG using the following steps:

  1. First, switch to the $exscripts directory:
    Set-Location $exscripts  
  1. Next, run...