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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)

Checking if the IP address is in a receive connector

In large environments, maintaining receive connectors across multiple servers can be hard work. Imagine an organization with dozens of Exchange servers, each with a receive connector that allows applications or devices to relay emails. If we are lucky, all connectors will have the same list of IPs, which makes them easier to manage. However, if the organization is geographically dispersed, this might not be the case. When troubleshooting mail flow issues, it might be required to check if a particular application's IP address is configured in any receive connector. If all connectors are configured identically, this can easily be done using the EAC, but if they are not or if we want to check all connectors (including default ones), PowerShell is the way to go.

In this recipe, we will see how we can easily check if a particular...