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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

Managing archive mailboxes


In Exchange 2010, a new personal storage concept was introduced that still remains in Exchange 2013, called an archive mailbox. The idea is that you can give one or more users a secondary mailbox that can be accessed from anywhere, just like their regular mailbox, and it can be used to store older mailbox data, eliminating the need for a PST file. The point of this is that the archive mailboxes can now be located on a database separate from the primary mailbox, allowing administrators to put low-priority, archived mailbox data on an inexpensive lower tier of storage. In this chapter, we'll look at how you can manage archive mailboxes for your users through the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To create an archive mailbox for an existing mailbox, use the Enable-Mailbox cmdlet, as shown in the following example:

Enable-Mailbox –Identity administrator -Archive

How it works...

When you create an archive mailbox for a user, they can access their personal archive...