Book description
Benefit from over 120 recipes that tackle the everyday issues that arise with Microsoft Exchange Server. Using PowerShell you’ll learn to add scripts that provide new functions and efficiencies. Only basic knowledge required.
- Newly updated and improved for Exchange Server 2013 and PowerShell 3
- Learn how to write scripts and functions, schedule scripts to run automatically, and generate complex reports with PowerShell
- Manage and automate every element of Exchange Server 2013 with PowerShell such as mailboxes, distribution groups, and address lists
In Detail
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
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. PowerShell Key Concepts
- Introduction
- Using the help system
- Understanding command syntax and parameters
- Understanding the pipeline
- Working with variables and objects
- Formatting output
- Working with arrays and hash tables
- Looping through items
- Creating and running scripts
- Using flow control statements
- Creating custom objects
- Creating PowerShell functions
- Setting up a profile
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2. Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks
- Introduction
- Manually configuring remote PowerShell connections
- Using explicit credentials with PowerShell cmdlets
- Transferring files through remote shell connections
- Dealing with concurrent pipelines in remote PowerShell
- Managing domains or an entire forest using recipient scope
- Exporting reports to text and CSV files
- Sending SMTP e-mails through PowerShell
- Scheduling scripts to run at a later time
- Logging shell sessions to a transcript
- Automating tasks with the scripting agent
- Scripting an Exchange server installation
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3. Managing Recipients
- Introduction
- Adding, modifying, and removing mailboxes
- Working with contacts
- Managing distribution groups
- Managing resource mailboxes
- Creating recipients in bulk using a CSV file
- Working with recipient filters
- Adding and removing recipient e-mail addresses
- Hiding recipients from address lists
- Configuring recipient moderation
- Configuring message delivery restrictions
- Managing automatic replies and out of office settings for a user
- Adding, modifying, and removing server-side inbox rules
- Managing mailbox folder permissions
- Importing user photos into Active Directory
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4. Managing Mailboxes
- Introduction
- Reporting on the mailbox size
- Working with move requests and performing mailbox moves
- Mailbox move e-mail notification
- Importing and exporting mailboxes
- Deleting messages from mailboxes
- Managing disconnected mailboxes
- Generating mailbox folder reports
- Reporting on mailbox creation time
- Checking mailbox logon statistics
- Setting storage quotas for mailboxes
- Finding inactive mailboxes
- Detecting and fixing corrupt mailboxes
- Restoring deleted items from mailboxes
- Managing public folder mailboxes
- Reporting on public folder statistics
- Managing user access to public folders
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5. Distribution Groups and Address Lists
- Introduction
- Reporting on distribution group membership
- Adding members to a distribution group from an external file
- Previewing dynamic distribution group membership
- Excluding hidden recipients from a dynamic distribution group
- Converting and upgrading distribution groups
- Allowing managers to modify group membership
- Removing disabled user accounts from distribution groups
- Working with distribution group naming policies
- Working with distribution group membership approval
- Creating address lists
- Exporting address list membership to a CSV file
- Configuring hierarchical address books
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6. Mailbox Database Management
- Introduction
- Managing the mailbox databases
- Moving databases and logs to another location
- Configuring the mailbox database limits
- Reporting on mailbox database size
- Finding the total number of mailboxes in a database
- Determining the average mailbox size per database
- Reporting on database backup status
- Restoring data from a recovery database
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7. Managing Client Access
- Introduction
- Managing ActiveSync, OWA, POP3, and IMAP4 mailbox settings
- Setting internal and external CAS URLs
- Managing Outlook Anywhere settings
- Blocking Outlook clients from connecting to Exchange
- Reporting on active OWA and RPC connections
- Controlling ActiveSync device access
- Reporting on ActiveSync devices
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8. Managing Transport Service
- Introduction
- Managing connectors
- Configuring transport limits
- Allowing application servers to relay mail
- Managing transport rules and settings
- Creating a basic disclaimer
- Working with custom DSN messages
- Managing connectivity and protocol logs
- Searching message tracking logs
- Working with messages in transport queues
- Searching anti-spam agent logs
- Implementing a header firewall
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9. High Availability
- Introduction
- Building a Windows NLB cluster for CAS servers
- Creating a Database Availability Group
- Adding mailbox servers to a Database Availability Group
- Configuring Database Availability Group network settings
- Adding mailbox copies to a Database Availability Group
- Activating mailbox database copies
- Working with lagged database copies
- Reseeding a database copy
- Using the automatic reseed feature
- Performing maintenance on Database Availability Group members
- Reporting on database status, redundancy, and replication
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10. Exchange Security
- Introduction
- Granting users full access permissions to mailboxes
- Finding users with full access to mailboxes
- Sending e-mail messages as another user or group
- Working with Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Creating a custom RBAC role for administrators
- Creating a custom RBAC role for end users
- Troubleshooting Role Based Access Control
- Generating a certificate request
- Installing certificates and enabling services
- Importing certificates on multiple exchange servers
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11. Compliance and Audit Logging
- Introduction
- Managing archive mailboxes
- Configuring archive mailbox quotas
- Creating retention tags and policies
- Applying retention policies to mailboxes
- Placing mailboxes on retention hold
- Placing mailboxes on in-place hold
- Performing a discovery search
- Enabling mailbox audit logging
- Generating mailbox audit log reports
- Configuring Administrator Audit Logging
- Searching the administrator audit logs
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12. Server Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Managing and monitoring services
- Verifying server connectivity
- Working with event logs
- Reporting on disk usage
- Checking CPU utilization
- Monitoring memory utilization
- Reporting on Exchange Server uptime
- Troubleshooting the Mailbox role
- Troubleshooting the Client Access Server role
- Troubleshooting the Transport service
- Verifying certificate health
- 13. Scripting with the Exchange Web Services Managed API
- A. Common Shell Information
- B. Query Syntaxes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849689427
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