Microsoft introduced some radical architectural changes in Exchange 2007, including a brand new set of management tools. PowerShell v1, along with an additional set of exchange specific cmdlets, finally gave administrators an interface that could be used to manage the entire product from a command line shell. This was an interesting move, as was the fact that the entire graphical management console was built on top of this technology. Any tasks performed from the graphical interface, known as the Exchange Management Console , were translated into PowerShell commands that were carried out in the background. This meant that for the first time, administrators could completely automate anything that could be done from the graphical console using this new command line interface called the Exchange Management Shell. This was a total departure from how the management tools worked in previous versions of Exchange, but it finally provided the automation capabilities that had been desired...