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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

Restoring deleted items from mailboxes


One of the more common requests that Exchange administrators are asked to perform is restoring deleted items from a user's mailbox. In previous versions of Exchange, there were usually a couple of ways to handle this. First, you could use your traditional brick-level backup solution to restore individual items to a mailbox. Of course, there was also the more time-consuming process of exporting data from a mailbox located in a recovery database. Exchange 2010 reduced the complexity of restoring deleted items by implementing a feature called single item recovery. When this feature is enabled, administrators can recover purged data from an end user's mailbox using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet. In this recipe, we will take a look at how this restore process works from within the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

  1. If you have not already done so, you will need to use the following command syntax to assign the Mailbox Import Export RBAC role to your account...