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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)

Adding IP address to receive connectors

When using custom receive connectors to allow applications to relay emails, there will eventually come a time when we need to add an IP address to such a connector. In small environments, this is typically not an issue, but if the IP address needs to be added to multiple connectors, then it can take a long time to do this using the EAC. Especially if this needs to happen frequently. In such cases, PowerShell is the best option.

In this recipe, we will see how to add IP addresses to one or more receive connectors.

How to do it...

To add one or more IP address to a single receive connector, we can use the following code:

    $recCon = Get-ReceiveConnector "EX1\Relay"
    $recCon...