If you are like many other administrators, you probably spend the majority of your time performing recipient-related management tasks when dealing with Exchange. If you work in a large environment with thousands of recipients, using the Exchange Management Console to create, update, and delete recipients will probably be a cumbersome and time consuming process. Of course, the obvious solution to this is to use the Exchange Management Shell. Utilizing the Exchange Management Shell, you can automate all of your recipient management tasks and drastically speed up your work.

The concept of an Exchange recipient is more than just a user with a mailbox. An Exchange recipient is any Active Directory object that has been mail-enabled and can receive messages within the Exchange organization. This can be a distribution group, a contact, a mail-enabled public folder, and more. These object types include individual sets of cmdlets that can be used to completely automate the administration...