Preface

PowerShell has become one of the most important skills in an Exchange administrator's armory. PowerShell has proved its mettle so widely that, if you're not already starting to learn PowerShell, then you're falling behind the industry. It isn't difficult to learn PowerShell at all. In fact, if you've ever run commands from a CMD prompt, then you'll be able to start using PowerShell straight away.

This book will walk you through the essentials of PowerShell in Microsoft Exchange Server, and make sure you understand its nitty gritty effectively. There are a lot of examples and scripts that will demonstrate how you can use PowerShell to be more effective and save time as an administrator, which otherwise would have been spent performing repetitive tasks.

Microsoft Exchange PowerShell Essentials will provide all the required details for Active Directory, System, and Exchange administrators to help them understand Windows PowerShell and build the required scripts to manage the Exchange Infrastructure.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with PowerShell, provides an introduction to Windows PowerShell, which will build a strong foundation for the latter chapters.

Chapter 2, Learning Recipient Management, teaches you ways to manage recipients in an Exchange organization.

Chapter 3, Handling Distribution Groups, is about managing different distribution groups as it plays a major role in the Exchange Administration.

Chapter 4, Exchange Security, talks about securing Exchange and delegating access to administration tasks using Role-Based Access Control.

Chapter 5, Everything about Microsoft Exchange Policies, covers how to manage address books, email addresses, and Retention Policies in Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016.

Chapter 6, Handling Exchange Server Roles, talks about configuring Exchange Client Access such as POP, IMAP, Outlook Anywhere, ActiveSync, and different Transport Services.

Chapter 7, Auditing and E-Discovery, reviews auditing and discovery features in Exchange that will help Organizations meet their Compliance and e-discovery requirements.

Chapter 8, Managing High Availability, uses our knowledge of PowerShell to manage high availability for Exchange 2013 and 2016 Organization.

Chapter 9, Exploring EWS Managed API, reviews Exchange Web Services application programming interface (API) and its usage in managing an Exchange On Premise and Online Organization.

Chapter 10, Common Administration Tasks, reviews some of the common administrative tasks in Exchange and uses PowerShell to save time and effort spent in performing repetitive jobs.

What you need for this book

The following is a list of softwares and supported operating systems required for this book:

• Software required Exchange Server 2013 or 2016
• OS required—Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, or Windows 2012 R2
• Hardware Required:

  

To view complete system requirements of Exchange Server 2016, you can log on to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.160).aspx.

Who this book is for

This book is for administrators with a basic or limited understanding of Windows PowerShell and who want to increase their skill set in managing both the Exchange On Premise and Online environments.

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A block of code is set as follows:

$x = 12
$ = 34

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

[default]
exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1|30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

PS C:\> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: " You can review the settings through Exchange Admin Center (EAC) by navigating to the Mail Flow | email address "

Note

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Tip

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