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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer
Book Image

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer

Overview of this book

We start with a set of recipes on core PowerShell concepts. This will provide you with a foundation for the examples in the book. Next, you'll see how to implement some of the common exchange management shell tasks, so you can effectively write scripts with this latest release. You will then learn to manage Exchange recipients, automate recipient-related tasks in your environment, manage mailboxes, and understand distribution group management within the Exchange Management Shell. Moving on, we'll work through several scenarios where PowerShell scripting can be used to increase your efficiency when managing databases, which are the most critical resources in your Exchange environment. Towards the end, you'll discover how to achieve Exchange High Availability and how to secure your environment, monitor the health of Exchange, and integrate Exchange with Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server, and Exchange Online (Office 365). By the end of the book, you will be able to perform administrative tasks efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Backing up distribution groups membership

Now we've worked with distribution groups in the earlier recipe, we know the basics of them. Now we want to utilize PowerShell for backing up the distribution groups and the membership. There could be a lot of reasons for this, but a migration is the most likely one I can think of; examples include a cross-forest migration or, from Exchange on-premises to Exchange Online without having the full Exchange Hybrid with synchronizing all objects, and so on.

In this recipe, we will find all distribution groups and their members to extract that information; we will also be able to restore this information.

How to do it...

In this section, we will see the full script for extracting the...