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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)

Reporting on database backup status

Using the Exchange Management Shell, we can write scripts that will check on the last full backup time for a database that can be used for monitoring and reporting. In this recipe, you will learn how to check the last backup time for each database and use this information to generate statistics and find databases that are not being backed up on a regular basis.

How to do it...

To check the last full backup time for a database, use the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet, as shown:

    Get-MailboxDatabase -Identity DB1 -Status | fl Name,LastFullBackup  

How it works...

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