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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

Introduction


When it comes to managing security in Exchange 2013, you have several options, depending on the resources that you're dealing with. For example, you can allow multiple users to open a mailbox by assigning them full access permissions on a mailbox object, but granting administrators the ability to create recipient objects needs to be done through Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Obviously, since the security for both of these components is handled differently, we have unrelated sets of cmdlets that need to be used to get the job done, and managing each of them through the shell will require a unique approach.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at several solutions implemented through the Exchange Management Shell that address each of the components described previously, as well as some additional techniques that can be used to improve your efficiency when dealing with Exchange security.

Performing some basic steps

To work with the code samples in this chapter, follow these steps...