Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

Working with variables and objects

Every scripting language makes use of variables as placeholders for data, and PowerShell is no exception. You'll need to work with variables often to save temporary data to an object so you can work with it later. PowerShell is very different from other command shells in that everything you touch is, in fact, a rich object with properties and methods. In PowerShell, a variable is simply an instance of an object just like everything else. The properties of an object contain various bits of information depending on the type of object you're working with. In this recipe we'll learn to create user-defined variables and work with objects in the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To create a variable that stores ...