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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

Searching anti-spam agent logs


Exchange 2013 Mailbox servers are capable of using several anti-spam agents to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail messages that enter your organization. All anti-spam activity is logged by Mailbox servers, and this data can be used to troubleshoot issues and generate reports. In this recipe, you'll learn how to search the anti-spam agent logs using the Exchange Management Shell. Notice that these anti-spam agents are not installed by default.

How to do it...

The Get-AgentLog cmdlet can be used to parse the anti-spam agent logs. To find all the log entries for a particular agent, filter the output based on the Agent property:

Get-AgentLog | ?{$_.Agent -eq 'Content Filter Agent'}

When running this command in a busy environment, you may get back a large number of results, and you may want to consider refining your filter and perhaps limiting the date range to a specific period of time.

How it works...

All of the anti-spam agents use a series of logfiles on each...