• Professional Windows® PowerShellTM for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

• by Joezer Cookey–, Gam and Brendan Keane

If you want to dramatically improve your implementation and administration of Exchange Server 2007, then this is the book for you. It walks you through the ins and outs of PowerShell, showing you how to take full advantage of this scripting language for deploying, configuring, managing, and maintaining your Exchange environment.

You′ll first explore Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell. Next, you′ll discover how to work with the new Exchange server roles as well as how to use the cmdlets and features that are specific to these roles. You′ll then discover how to successfully bring PowerShell into your environment and work with users and groups. Numerous examples are integrated throughout the chapters so you′ll be able to quickly apply the information to enhance your Exchange experience.

What you will learn from this book

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  All of the PowerShell for Exchange fundamentals so you can quickly get started
  
  
  

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  Methods for working with Exchange User and Group Objects
  
  
  

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  Ways to configure the Client Access Server, Hub Transport, Mailbox Server and Unified Messaging Server roles
  
  
  

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  Best practices for utilizing PowerShell in a production environment
  
  
  

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  How to work with routing in Exchange 2007, continuous replication, and single copy clusters
  
  
  

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  Techniques for automating administration to ensure optimal performance
  
  

Who this book is for

This book is for Exchange professionals who want to learn how to use PowerShell to effectively manage, automate, and streamline their Exchange 2007 organization.

Wrox Professional Guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Brendan Keane is currently an information security principal specializing in Microsoft technologies. Brendan began his tenure with Exchange 5.5 and has enjoyed working more with each new release.

Jeffrey Rosen has a Masters of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve Weatherhead School of Management specializing in Information Systems. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect, an MCSE specializing in messaging and security, and a CISSP. He began his career working with Microsoft Mail and Novell Netware. Since then, Jeffrey has been working for Microsoft Consulting Services for nine years, working on large and complex Exchange deployments.

Jonathan Runyon has worked in the IT Industry for more than 17 years. He joined Microsoft in 2001 and has worked exclusively on Exchange Server support ever since. Jonathan recently contributed to the development of Exchange Server 2007 internal training for Microsoft Customer Service and Support. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and MCSA, specializing in messaging.

Joel Stidley has been working with Microsoft Exchange since the Exchange Server 5.0 beta releases and hasn ’ t missed deploying a release since. He has been working with the Microsoft Exchange JDP/TAP program since Exchange Server 2000 Service Pack 3, and has been running Exchange Server 2007 in production since 2005. Joel also founded ExchangeExchange.com, an Exchange – focused community website in 2004 where he blogs and provides forums for discussing Exchange and PowerShell information. Currently he is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Terremark Worldwide Inc where he works with a variety of storage, virtualization, and messaging technologies.