Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

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Introduction

What This Book Covers

The first two chapters cover the basics on using PowerShell, so those with little to no experience with

PowerShell should be sure to read those chapters with keen interest.

After Chapter 2, the book takes a deeper dive into the Exchange PowerShell cmdlets and how to

combine their use to simplify and automate with real-world examples.

How This Book Is Structured

The book is separated into four main parts. The first section helps the reader become familiar with

Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell. Time is spent discussing the

roots of PowerShell as well as the fundamentals for using PowerShell with Exchange.

The second section of the book focuses on working with the new Exchange server roles. The cmdlets and

features that are specific to each of these roles are discussed and real examples are used to help identify

the appropriate times that the cmdlets would be used.

The third section brings PowerShell into your environment, showing examples of how to work with

users and groups. Also, time is spent working with clusters and troubleshooting with PowerShell.

The final section puts together all of the things that have been discussed previously. Time is spent with a

number of examples, explaining how they work and providing a basis for you to modify the examples

for your own environment.

What You Need to Use This Book

To be able ...