Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Mailbox and High Availability

Using remote Windows PowerShell

Exchange 2010 began the necessary transformation from a model that assumed an administrator would always have some form of physical access to a server to the point at which remote management has become the norm. Remote PowerShell provides the fundamental building block for connectivity to remote systems. The combination of remote PowerShell and RBAC enables administrators to manage objects residing on a server in a remote datacenter as easily as managing objects on a local server.

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You can think of Windows PowerShell as implemented in Exchange Server 2007 as “local PowerShell” because cmdlets are executed in a local process. The only element of remote access in Exchange 2007 is when you pass the –Server parameter ...