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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a complex messaging system. Windows PowerShell 3 can be used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2013 to automate and manage routine and complex tasks to save time, money, and eliminate errors.Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition offers more than 120 recipes and solutions to everyday problems and tasks encountered in the management and administration of Exchange Server. If you want to write scripts that help you create mailboxes, monitor server resources, and generate detailed reports, then this Cookbook is for you. This practical guide to Powershell and Exchange Server 2013 will help you automate and manage time-consuming and reoccurring tasks quickly and efficiently. Starting by going through key PowerShell concepts and the Exchange Management Shell, this book will get you automating tasks that used to take hours in no time.With practical recipes on the management of recipients and mailboxes as well as distribution groups and address lists, this book will save you countless hours on repetitive tasks. Diving deeper, you will then manage your mailbox database, client access, and your transport servers with simple but effective scripts.This book finishes with advanced recipes on Exchange Server problems such as server monitoring as well as maintaining high availability and security. If you want to control every aspect of Exchange Server 2013 and learn how to save time with PowerShell, then this cookbook is for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


One of the most important aspects of managing Exchange 2013 is the day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of the servers in your organization. In order to ensure that all systems are operating reliably, it is critical that you proactively monitor the health of each server in your environment. While this task is probably better suited to a robust enterprise-monitoring solution such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, it is possible to write PowerShell scripts to monitor your systems and troubleshoot issues that may arise. In this chapter, we'll take a look at several ways to monitor the health of server resources such as memory, CPU, and disk utilization, verify service availability, track errors written to the event logs, and more. We'll also explore various methods that can be used to troubleshoot issues when things have gone wrong.

Performing some basic steps

To work with the code samples in this chapter, follow these steps to launch the Exchange Management Shell:

  1. Log...