Chapter 3. The Exchange Management Shell

How Exchange leverages Windows PowerShell

Remote PowerShell

EMS basics

Command line versus Integrated Scripting Environment

Active Directory for PowerShell

Some useful EMS snippets

Verbose PowerShell

Setting language values

Execution policies

Testing cmdlets

But we need some control

MICROSOFT Windows PowerShell is an extensible automation engine consisting of a command-line shell and a scripting language. Originally code-named Monad, Windows PowerShell 1.0 debuted in 2006. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was the first major Microsoft application to support Windows PowerShell in a comprehensive manner. Although not every administrator welcomed the opportunity to learn a new scripting language, the overall impact was ...

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