Imagine that you have a monitoring script written in PowerShell that checks memory, CPU, or disk utilization on all of your Exchange servers. In addition to alerting your team of any critical problems via e-mail, it might also be nice to schedule a reminder in the future for non-critical issues by creating a calendar item in one or more mailboxes. The EWS Managed API makes it easy to create a calendar item through PowerShell with just a few commands.
First, load the assembly, create the
ExchangeServiceobject, and connect to EWS:Add-Type -Path C:\EWS\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll $svc = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService $svc.AutoDiscoverUrl("[email protected]")Next, create a new Appointment object:
$appt = New-Object -TypeName ` Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Appointment ` -ArgumentList $svc
Fill out the subject and body for the appointment:
$appt.Subject = "Review Disk Space Utilization on Server(s)" $appt...