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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

Detecting and fixing corrupt mailboxes


For years, Exchange administrators have used the Information Store Integrity Checker, more commonly known as the ISInteg utility, to detect and repair mailbox database corruption. You may have used ISInteg in previous versions of Exchange to correct a corruption issue preventing a user from opening their mailbox or from opening a particular message. Unfortunately, in order to repair a mailbox with ISInteg, you had to dismount the database hosting the mailbox, taking it offline for everyone else that had a mailbox homed on that database. Obviously, taking an entire mailbox database down for maintenance when it is only affecting one user is less than ideal. In Exchange 2010 SP1, a new cmdlet called New-MailboxRepairRequest was introduced that replaced the ISInteg tool and allows you to detect and repair mailbox corruption while the database is online and mounted. In this recipe, we will take a look at how to use these cmdlets and automate the detection...