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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating calendar items


Imagine that you have a monitoring script written in PowerShell that checks the memory, CPU, or disk utilization on all of your Exchange servers. In addition to alerting your team to any critical problems via e-mail, it might also be nice to schedule a reminder in the future for noncritical issues by creating a calendar item in one or more mailboxes. The EWS Managed API makes it easy to create a calendar item through PowerShell using just a few commands.

How to do it...

Let's see how to create calendar items using the following steps:

  1. First, load the assembly, create the ExchangeService object, and connect to EWS:

    Add-Type -Path C:\EWS\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll
    $svc = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
    $svc.AutoDiscoverUrl("[email protected]")
    
  2. Next, create a new appointment object:

    $appt = New-Object -TypeName '
    Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Appointment '
    -ArgumentList $svc
    
  3. Fill out the subject and body for the appointment...