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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

Troubleshooting the Transport service


Just like the Mailbox and Client Access services, the Transport service also has a couple of cmdlets dedicated to testing the flow of messages to servers running the Mailbox and Client Access roles. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use these cmdlets to troubleshoot mail flow and connectivity issues using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

  1. To test mail flow from one server to another, use the following syntax:

    Test-Mailflow -Identity MBX1 -TargetMailboxServer MBX2
    
  2. You can use the following syntax to test mail flow from a specific server to a mailbox:

    Test-Mailflow -Identity MBX1 `
    -TargetEmailAddress [email protected]
    
  3. To validate SMTP connections, use the Test-SmtpConnectivity cmdlet:

    Test-SmtpConnectivity -Identity MBX2
    

How it works...

The Test-Mailflow cmdlet sends an e-mail message from a system mailbox on a Mailbox server to another mailbox. If you do not provide a target mailbox server or e-mail address, the message will be sent and...