Review: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook

Home > Blogs > Exchange Server > Review: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook

Review: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook

Like This Blog 0 Jason Helmick
Added by September 4, 2013

We all agree that PowerShell is an amazing real-time and automation management tool. While many of us focus on the in-depth workings of our favorite tool, the real test is in its everyday use managing the products we are responsible for – Exchange being one of mine.

Many of you already know that the Exchange team invested heavily with implementing PowerShell starting with Exchange 2007. This was an enormous risk considering that most admins would not begin adoption of PowerShell for a few more years. The maturity of the cmdlet implementation – the ability to perform every task with the cmdlets – was, and still is, one of the finest product implementations of PowerShell. The Exchange team has continued its amazing implementation with Exchange 2010 and 2013. But with this amazing implementation comes a cost: Learning PowerShell for Exchange.

The best resource – and for a while the only one – that helped with learning the Exchange cmdlets and specific automation tasks was a book written by Mike Pfeiffer called “Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook”. It was an amazing resource of common – and not so common – tasks that every admin would need to perform – but described with the PowerShell cmdlets for Exchange. It was well written with great explanations and helped me get up to speed fast working with Exchange 2010.

Now there is a new release, a second edition by Mike Pfeiffer and his co-author Jonas Andersson titled “Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook“.  Since I’m moving on to Exchange 2013 I thought I would give the book a try at helping me get prepared.

001-microsoft-exchange-server-2013-powershell-cookbook

Success! Again, the second addition is very well written and crammed with everything you need to know on managing Exchange with PowerShell. It’s a cookbook, so this isn’t something you read from cover-to-cover, you jump into the task that you need and get immediate help solving your problem. I did read it from cover-to-cover (I’m a geek) and found the book very logically laid out. Beginning with a short PowerShell introduction the book moves quickly into managing mailbox’s, recipients and databases.  Why use GUI tools when PowerShell can make this so easy.

The book goes into detail about specific management and configuration tasks for managing client access and the transport service, but where the book shines for me is in the sections on High Availability and monitoring/troubleshooting.

Towards the end of the book there is a great section on scripting automation and solutions using the Exchange Web Service Managed API – which opened up a whole new way for me to create solutions.

If your working with Exchange 2010 or 2013, this cookbook series is a must have. I have them both and they never leave my desk.

Here’s that link again if you want to check them out for yourself!

Knowledge is PowerShell
Jason Helmick
Systems Instructor
Interface Technical Training

Videos You May Like

A Simple Introduction to Cisco CML2

0 3877 0

Mark Jacob, Cisco Instructor, presents an introduction to Cisco Modeling Labs 2.0 or CML2.0, an upgrade to Cisco’s VIRL Personal Edition. Mark demonstrates Terminal Emulator access to console, as well as console access from within the CML2.0 product. Hello, I’m Mark Jacob, a Cisco Instructor and Network Instructor at Interface Technical Training. I’ve been using … Continue reading A Simple Introduction to Cisco CML2

Creating Dynamic DNS in Network Environments

0 641 1

This content is from our CompTIA Network + Video Certification Training Course. Start training today! In this video, CompTIA Network + instructor Rick Trader teaches how to create Dynamic DNS zones in Network Environments. Video Transcription: Now that we’ve installed DNS, we’ve created our DNS zones, the next step is now, how do we produce those … Continue reading Creating Dynamic DNS in Network Environments

Cable Testers and How to Use them in Network Environments

0 724 1

This content is from our CompTIA Network + Video Certification Training Course. Start training today! In this video, CompTIA Network + instructor Rick Trader demonstrates how to use cable testers in network environments. Let’s look at some tools that we can use to test our different cables in our environment. Cable Testers Properly Wired Connectivity … Continue reading Cable Testers and How to Use them in Network Environments

Write a Comment

Share your thoughts...

Please fill out the comment form below to post a reply.