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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

Adding mailbox servers to a Database Availability Group


Once you've created a DAG, you'll need to add DAG members, which are servers running the mailbox server role. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add mailbox servers to a DAG using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To add a mailbox server to a DAG, use the Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer cmdlet:

Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity DAG `
-MailboxServer MBX1

In this example, the MBX1 server is added to a database availability group named DAG.

How it works...

In order to run the Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer cmdlet, the servers being added to the DAG must be running an Enterprise Edition of either Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition. This is due to the requirement of the Windows failover clustering component which is required by the DAG. Additionally, the servers must not be a member of an existing DAG for you to successfully run this command.

If you use this cmdlet to add a mailbox...