Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

The foreach statement is a language construct used to iterate through values in a collection of items. The following example shows the syntax used to loop through a collection of mailboxes, returning only the name of each mailbox:

    foreach ($mailbox in Get-Mailbox) {$mailbox.Name}  

In addition, you can take advantage of the PowerShell pipeline and perform loop processing using the ForEach-Object cmdlet. This example produces the same result as the one shown previously:

    Get-Mailbox | ForEach-Object {$_.Name}  

You will often see the given command written using an alias of the ForEach-Object cmdlet, such as the percent sign (%):

    Get-Mailbox | %{$_.Name}