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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using command discovery through the Exchange Management Console


The Exchange Management Console simply carries out PowerShell commands in the background as you add, remove, and modify objects. One of the nice features is that most of these commands are exposed through the console, and you can use it as a tool to learn PowerShell. In this recipe, we'll look at a few ways in which you can discover which PowerShell commands are being executed when making changes in the console.

Getting ready

To use the examples in this recipe, you will need to launch the Exchange Management Console.

How to do it...

In the Exchange Management Console, highlight an item in the console tree, click on the View menu, and select View Exchange Management Console Command Log, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will bring up the Exchange Management Shell Log window, as shown in the following screenshot:

In addition to command logging, you can use the PowerShell command button when modifying the settings of an object...