Exchange Server 2007 PowerShell

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The goal of this course is to show you how to fully automate repetitive tasks and ongoing maintenance processes in Exchange Server 2007. Even if you’ve never written a script, this hands-on course will teach you how to write your own automation scripts. This course also covers SQL database creation scripts and PowerShell automation scripts. This course is ideal for beginner or intermediate Exchange administrators with basic Exchange Server 2007 experience.

Lessons

  • Lesson Clips
    • Your Instructor
    • What You will Get in this Course
    • What You Should Know for this Course
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • PowerShell vs. Exchange Management Shell
    • PowerShell Terminology
    • Getting Help
    • Formatting Output
    • Operators
    • Scripts
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • A PowerShell Editor
    • Variables and Constants
    • Variable Types
    • Explicit vs. Implicit
    • Variable Manipulation
    • Variable Scope
    • Loops
    • While Loop Examples
    • For Loop Examples
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • Functions
    • Function Parameters
    • The Switch Statement
    • Writing to a File
    • Reading from a File
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • Scenario
    • Active Directory Terminology
    • The Anatomy of Active Directory Objects
    • Creating and Displaying AD Objects and Attributes with a GUI
    • PowerShell GUI-Equivalent Commands
    • Non-GUI Object Creation
    • Difference Between Group Objects
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • Scenario
    • Creating the Databases
    • Creating an SQL View Connected to AD
    • The Initial View
    • Make it Intelligent
    • The Synchronization Table
    • Read Information from an SQL Server
    • Write Information to an SQL Server
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Introduction
    • Scenario
    • Project Plan
    • The Foundation for the Project
    • Capabilities Used
    • Employee Script Walkthrough
    • Run and Check the Results of the Employee Script
    • Customer Script Walkthrough
    • Run the Customer Script
    • Verify the Scripts Results in AD and OWA
    • What We Covered and What You Should Know
  • Lesson Clips
    • Creating the Sample Databases
    • Run the Scripts
    • Customize the PowerShell Scripts for Your Use

Instructor

Scott D. Lowe

Scott D. Lowe

Scott is the Founder and Managing Consultant of THE 1610 Group. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and everything in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet's TechRepublic, TechTarget, and TechGenix.

For TechRepublic, for whom he has written hundreds of articles, Scott writes weekly in the Servers and Storage area, monthly in the IT Leadership area and in other areas on an ad hoc basis. Scott also writes for TechTarget's SearchCIO-Midmarket site and is the lead author for TechGenix's virtualizationadmin.com site. Scott is the author of O'Reilly's Home Networking: The Missing Manual and a coauthor of Microsoft Press' Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion and the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Configuring Windows Small Business Server 2008 book.

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