Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

In a pipeline, you separate a series of commands using the pipe (|) character. In the previous example, the Get-Mailbox cmdlet returns a collection of mailbox objects. Each mailbox object contains several properties that contain information such as the name of the mailbox, the location of the associated user account in Active Directory, and more. The Set-User cmdlet is designed to accept input from the Get-Mailbox cmdlet in a pipeline, and with one simple command, we can pass along an entire collection of mailboxes that can be modified in one operation.

You can also pipe output to filtering commands, such as the Where-Object cmdlet. In this example, the command retrieves only the mailboxes with aMaxSendSize equal to 50 megabytes: ...