Microsoft exchange server 2016 powershell cookbook : over 150 recipes to automate time-consuming administrative tasks / Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersson, Jonas, author.

Mota, Nuno, author.

Pfeiffer, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Exchange server.

Client/server computing.

Operating systems (Computers)--Programming.

Operating systems (Computers).

Scripting languages (Computer science).

Systems programming (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mota Nuno: Nuno Mota is a Senior Microsoft Messaging Consultant currently working for a large sovereign wealth fund. He has been responsible for designing and deploying Exchange and Office 365 solutions for organizations across the UK. He also shares a passion for Skype for Business, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Besides writing his personal Exchange blog, called LetsExchange, he is also an author on the MSExchange website with dozens of published articles and product reviews as well as multiple scripts on TechNet. He has also been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Exchange five times since 2012. Pfeiffer Mike: Mike Pfeiffer is a 20-year IT industry veteran, published author, and international conference speaker. He's a former architect for Amazon Web Services and engineer for Microsoft. Today, Pfeiffer serves as chief technologist for CloudSkills, a cloud computing training and consulting firm. Andersson Jonas: Jonas Andersson is devoted to constantly developing himself and his skills. He started out in the IT business in 2004 and initially worked in a support center, where he acquired a basic knowledge of the industry. In 2007, he started his career as a Microsoft Infrastructure consultant, and from 2008 onwards his focus has been on Unified Communication. At the start of 2010, he was employed at a large outsourcing company as a messaging specialist, specializing in Microsoft Exchange. His work included designing, implementing, and developing messaging solutions for enterprise customers. In 2014, he joined Microsoft Consulting Services, and from then onward his main focus has been Office 365. His role was of a deployment consultant with Microsoft's Office 365 Global Practice EMEA team. In 2016, he started to work for Swedens largest retail companies with a known brand as a Product Specialist for Office 365, mostly focusing on Skype for Business Online but also on the other workloads. As a reward for his work in the community, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the Microsoft Exchange Server product in 2014.

Summary:

Make the most of PowerShell's features to manage all aspects of your Exchange Server 2016 environment. About This Book Learn to integrate PowerShell with Exchange Server 2016 Write scripts and functions to run tasks automatically, and generate complex reports with PowerShell Use these effective recipes to learn all popular and important PowersShell scripts to manage tasks and avoid errors Who This Book Is For This book is for messaging professionals who want to build real-world scripts with Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Management Shell. You'll also find it indispensable if you're a network or systems administrator responsible for managing and maintaining Exchange Server 2016. What You Will Learn Master the new features and capabilities of PowerShell and Exchange Server 2016 Get to grips with the core PowerShell concepts Use simple PowerShell scripts and commands to get powerful results Generate detailed reports, send the output of commands by email , and schedule scripts to run automatically Import, export, and move mailboxes, and delete messages from mailboxes using the command line Configure transport server settings such as mail relay, tracking logs, transport rules, delivery reports, and more Manage mailbox and public folders Monitor the health of an Exchange environment through built-in cmdlets and other methods Integrate Exchange with Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server, and Exchange Online (Office 365) In Detail We start with a set of recipes on core PowerShell concepts. This will provide you with a foundation for the examples in the book. Next, you'll see how to implement some of the common exchange management shell tasks, so you can effectively write scripts with this latest release. You will then learn to manage Exchange recipients, automate recipient-related tasks in your environment, manage mailboxes, and understand distribution group management within the Exchange Management Shell. Moving on, we'll work through several scenarios where PowerShell scripting can be used to increase your efficiency when managing databases, which are the most critical resources in your Exchange environment. Towards the end, you'll discover how to achieve Exchange High Availability and how to secure your environment, monitor the health of Exchange, and integrate Exchange with Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server, and Exchange Online (Office 365). By the end of the book, you will be able to perform administrative tasks effic...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: PowerShell Key Concepts

Introduction

Performing some basic steps

Using the help system

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Getting help with cmdlets and functions

See also

Understanding command syntax and parameters

Command aliases

Setting up a PowerShell profile

Understanding the pipeline

Working with variables and objects

Variable expansion in strings

Strongly typed variables

Working with arrays and hash tables

Looping through items

Creating custom objects

Using debugger functions

Understanding the new execution policy

Using the Save-Help function

Working with script repositories

Chapter 2: Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks

Manually configuring remote PowerShell connections

Getting ready

See also.

Using explicit credentials with PowerShell cmdlets

Transferring files through remote shell connections

Managing domains or an entire forest using a recipient scope

Exporting reports to text and CSV files

Sending SMTP emails through PowerShell

Sending messages with attachments

Sending command output in the body of a message

Scheduling scripts to run at a later time

Logging shell sessions to a transcript

Automating tasks with the scripting agent

Using multiple cmdlets with the OnComplete API

Scripting an Exchange server installation

Chapter 3: Managing Recipients

Creating, modifying, and removing mailboxes

Setting Active Directory attributes

Working with contacts

Managing distribution groups

Managing resource mailboxes

Converting mailboxes

Creating recipients in bulk using a CSV file

How it works.

There's more...

Taking it a step further

Configuring MailTips

Working with recipient filters

Understanding variables in filters

Adding and removing recipient email 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

Chapter 4: Managing Mailboxes

Reporting on mailbox sizes

Reporting on the mailbox creation time

Working with move requests and performing mailbox moves

Removing move requests

Moving archive mailboxes

Moving mailboxes in batches

Moving mailboxes with corrupt items

Email notification on mailbox moves

There's more…

Importing and exporting mailboxes

There's more…

Importing data into mailboxes

Deleting messages from mailboxes using Search-Mailbox

Running reports before deleting data

Deleting messages in bulk

Deleting messages from mailboxes using Compliance Search

Managing disconnected mailboxes

Purging mailboxes

Cleaning databases

Setting storage quotas for mailboxes

Finding email addresses with numbers

Finding mailboxes with different SIP and Primary SMTP addresses

Finding inactive mailboxes

Detecting and fixing corrupt mailboxes

Restoring deleted items from mailboxes

Managing public folder mailboxes

Public folder quotas

Reporting on public folder statistics

Managing user access to public folders

Chapter 5: Distribution Groups and Address Lists

Reporting on distribution group membership

Adding members to a distribution group from an external file

Previewing dynamic distribution group membership

Backing up distribution groups membership

Excluding hidden recipients from a dynamic distribution group

Converting and upgrading distribution groups

Allowing managers to modify group permissions

Removing disabled users 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

Chapter 6: Mailbox Database Management

Managing the mailbox databases

Understanding automatic mailbox distribution

Moving databases and logs to another location

Manually moving databases

Configuring the mailbox database limits.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 11, 2017).

OCLC:

1001253547