Book Image

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

Book Image

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

Hiding recipients from address lists


There may be times when you'll need to hide a particular mailbox, contact, or distribution group from your Exchange address lists. This is a common task that is required when you have mailboxes, contacts, or public folders used by applications or staff in your IT department that should not be seen by end users. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can disable these recipient types from the address lists using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To hide a mailbox from the Exchange address lists, use the Set-Mailbox command:

Set-Mailbox dave –HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

How it works...

As you can see, hiding a mailbox from address lists is pretty straight forward, as it requires only a simple PowerShell one-liner. The –HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled parameter accepts a Boolean value, either $true or $false. To enable this setting, set the value to $true, and to disable it, set the value to $false.

There are multiple recipient types...