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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

Using the word phrase search


The following table outlines the properties that can be used to define an AQS query using a word phrase restriction:

Property

Examples

Description

Attachments

attachment:report.xlsx

attachment:salesreport.docx

attachment:pptx

attachment:*

Searches for items that have an attachment with a specific name, such as report.xlsx or salesreport.docx. You can include partial filenames, as shown in the third example, to find all messages with a certain extension. The file body of any attachments will also be searched. The last example finds all messages that have any attachment.

Cc

Cc:administrator

Cc:[email protected]

Searches for items where administrator or [email protected] is included in the carbon copy line.

From

From:Bob

From:Bob Smith

Searches for items sent from Bob or Bob Smith.

To

To:Bob

To:Bob Smith

Searches for items sent to Bob or Bob Smith.

Bcc

Bcc:Bob

Bcc:Bob Smith

Searches for items where Bob was included in the blind carbon copy line.

Subject

Subject:sales

Subject:(Sales Meeting)

Searches for items with the word "sales" in the subject line.

Searches for items with the words "sales" or "meeting" in the subject line.

Body

Body:financial

Content:financial

Searches for items where the word "financial" appears in the message body.

Participants

Participants:Bob Smith

Searches for items with Bob Smith in the To, Cc, or Bcc fields.

RetentionPolicy

Retentionpolicy:critical

Searches for items that have the critical retention tag applied.

(Not Defined)

Financial Report

Searches for items that contain both "Financial" and "Report" in all word phrase properties.

When performing a word phrase search, the property names and search terms are case insensitive. If you want an exact match, enclose the search query in double quotes, otherwise the search will default to a prefix match. For example, searching for the term report would match the word reporting unless enclosed in double quotes, indicating an exact search.

Examples

If you want to delete all the messages in the administrator mailbox where the sender's e-mail address is , use the following code:

Search-Mailbox -Identity administrator `
-SearchQuery "from:[email protected]" `
-DeleteContent `
-Force

If you want to create a discovery search based on messages that contain the phrase Employee Salary in every mailbox, use the following code:

New-MailboxSearch -Name MySearch `
-TargetMailbox "Discovery Search Mailbox" `
-SearchQuery 'Body:"Employee Salary"' `
-MessageTypes Email `
-IncludeUnsearchableItems `
-LogLevel Full