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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

Introduction


Exchange Web Services (EWS) was introduced with Exchange 2007, and it gave developers the ability to write applications that previously required the use of multiple APIs such as CDOEX, Exchange OLEDB, WebDAV , and more. Today, developers can call the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets from .NET-managed applications to perform administrative tasks programmatically. When it comes to manipulating the contents of a mailbox, such as creating or modifying calendar items, e-mail messages, contacts, or tasks, developers now use EWS.

Working with EWS requires formatting and sending an XML request over HTTP and parsing the XML response from an Exchange server. Initially, developers used either raw XML or auto-generated proxy classes in Visual Studio to do this, and it required some very verbose code that was difficult to read and debug. Fortunately, the Exchange Web Services team developed and released the EWS Managed API in April of 2009. The EWS Managed API is a fully object-oriented...