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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

Troubleshooting Role Based Access Control


Troubleshooting permission issues can be challenging, especially if you've implemented custom RBAC roles. In this recipe, we'll take a look at some useful troubleshooting techniques that can be used to troubleshoot issues related to RBAC.

How to do it...

There are several scenarios in which you can use the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets to solve problems with RBAC, and there are a couple of cmdlets that you'll need to use to do this. The following steps outline the solutions for some common troubleshooting situations:

  1. To determine which management roles have been assigned to a user, use the following command syntax:

    Get-ManagementRoleAssignment -GetEffectiveUsers | 
      Where-Object {$_.EffectiveUserName -eq 'sysadmin'}
    
  2. To retrieve a list of users that have been assigned a specific management role, run the following command and specify a role name, such as the Legal Hold role, as shown next:

    Get-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role 'Legal Hold' -GetEffectiveUsers...