January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
549 pages
19h 13m
English
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Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
by Joezer Cookey-Gam, Brendan Keane, Jeffrey Rosen, Jonathan Runyon, Joel Stidley
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Part I: PowerShell for Exchange Fundamentals
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cannot be used in conjunction with either the Verb or Noun parameters. In Figure 1 - 14 , Get-Command
is used with the
Verb and Noun parameters to return a list of matching cmdlets.
The
CommandType parameter allows you to specify the type of command for which to return matches.
Possible values are
Alias , Function , Cmdlet , ExternalScript , Application , and All . Using
Get-Command in this way allows you to find these additional command elements that are not exposed
when searching for cmdlets using
Get-Help . For example, the command in Figure 1 - 15 uses the
CommandType parameter to find external scripts that contain the word database somewhere in
their name.
Figure 1-14
Figure 1-15
ExternalScript command elements are Windows PowerShell scripts located in the %ProgramFiles%\
Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts
directory. In this example two scripts included with Exchange
Server 2007 match the search criteria for names that include
database .
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Get-Command can also be used to return detailed information about the syntax of a given cmdlet using
the
Syntax parameter. However, you may find the syntax ...
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