Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

480 Pages·2011·7.691 MB·English

by  Mike Pfeiffer

Microsoft Exchange
2010 PowerShell
Cookbook
Manage and maintain your Microsoft Exchange 2010
environment with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the
Exchange Management Shell
Mike Pfeiffer
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell
Cookbook
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Anderson Patricio
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About the Author
Mike Pfeiffer has been in the IT field for over 13 years, spending most of his time as
an enterprise consultant focused on Active Directory and Exchange implementation and
migration projects. He is a Microsoft Certified Master on Exchange 2010, and a Microsoft
Exchange MVP. You can find his writings online at mikepfeiffer.net, where he blogs
regularly about Exchange Server and PowerShell-related topics.
I’d like to thank my wife Abby and my daughter Isabel for their love, support,
and patience with me while I was locked away in my office writing this book.
I’d also like to thank the technical reviewers, Jason Helmick, Shay Levy,
Anderson Patricio, and Robert Martin for their hard work, dedication, and
contributions to the technical community.
About the Reviewers
Jason Helmick is an instructor at Interface Technical Training and has spent 19
years as an IT professional including experience with enterprise-level infrastructure and
systems deployment, e-commerce, and n-tier software development and management.
Jason specializes in PowerShell and Exchange. He and Mike Pfeiffer are the founders and
hosts of the Arizona PowerShell User Group (http://www.azposh.com).
You can check out Jason’s blog at http://www.jasonhelmick.com or you can catch
him on twitter at @thejasonhelmick.
To my loving wife and daughter, thanks for making the work easy. To Mike
Pfeiffer, thanks for making an awesome book! To Jeffrey Snover, thanks for
creating PowerShell.
Shay Levy is a Windows PowerShell MVP and System Administrator for a government
institute in Israel. He has worked with Microsoft platforms for more than 20 years,
focusing on Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory.
As a long time PowerShell community supporter, he has become a moderator of multiple
forums and a co-director of the PowerShellCommunity.org website.
He is the creator of the popular PowerShell Community browser toolbar, a one-stop shop
for various PowerShell resources such as downloads, webcasts, videos, podcasts, and
more. He often covers PowerShell-related topics on his blog http://PowerShay.com.
You can also follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ShayLevy.
Robert Martin has been in the IT Industry for over 15 years and is a senior consultant
specializing in VMware and Exchange. Robert has achieved several certifications over the
years, demonstrating his commitment to the industry. Among others, his certifications
include VCP3, VCP4, MCSA, CCNA, CNA, CCA, A+, and HP Accredited Platform Specialist.
Robert dedicates much of his time to automating daily tasks and tasks of his peers in
PowerShell and C#. In addition, Robert maintains a VMware, Exchange, and PowerShell
blog as his way of sharing solutions to daily tasks with other administrators.
Robert currently works for Choice Hotels International in Phoenix, AZ. For more
information about Robert Martin or the scripts he contributes, visit his blog at
http://robertwmartin.com.
Anderson Patricio is an Exchange MVP and works as a messaging consultant for
clients located in the South and North America. He has been working with Exchange since
version 5 of the product and he has had the opportunity to use PowerShell since the beta
release (code name Monad at that time).
Anderson is a TechEd presenter in South America and he has an exchange resource site
in Portuguese with several articles about Exchange, PowerShell, and Active Directory and
he also publishes monthly articles at MSExchange.org in English.
He is the reviewer of Windows PowerShell in Action by Bruce Payette and PowerShell in
Practice by Richard Siddaway.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: PowerShell Key Concepts 7
Introduction 8
Understanding command syntax 8
and parameters 8
Using the help system 13
Understanding the pipeline 17
Working with variables and objects 20
Formatting output 24
Working with arrays and hash tables 27
Looping through items 32
Using flow control statements 34
Creating custom objects 38
Creating PowerShell functions 42
Creating and running scripts 47
Setting up a profile 50
Chapter 2: Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks 53
Introduction 54
Using command discovery through the Exchange Management Console 55
Manually configuring remote PowerShell connections 58
Transferring files through remote shell connections 61
Dealing with concurrent pipelines in remote PowerShell 63
Managing domains or an entire forest using recipient scope 65
Using explicit credentials with PowerShell cmdlets 67
Exporting reports to text and CSV files 68
Sending SMTP e-mails through PowerShell 72
Scheduling scripts to run at a later time 75
Logging shell sessions to a transcript 77