This book is written in a cookbook-style format and provides practical, immediately usable task-based recipes that show you how to manage and maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment with Windows PowerShell 2.0. Each chapter of the book is written so that it can be used as a desktop reference, or it can be read from beginning to end, allowing you to build a solid foundation for building scripts in your Exchange environment. This book is for messaging professionals who want to learn how to build real-world scripts with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the Exchange Management Shell. If you are a network or systems administrator responsible for managing and maintaining Exchange Server 2010, then this book is for you. The recipes in this cookbook touch on each of the core Exchange 2010 server roles and require a working knowledge of supporting technologies including Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory, and DNS. This book covers the latest additions to Exchange Server 2010 including Service Pack 1. A basic understanding of Exchange Server 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 is highly recommended.
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Mike Pfeiffer
Mike Pfeiffer has been in the IT field for over 13 years, spending most of his time as an enterprise consultant focused on Active Directory and Exchange implementation and migration projects. He is a Microsoft Certified Master on Exchange 2010, and a Microsoft Exchange MVP. You can find his writings online at mikepfeiffer.net, where he blogs regularly about Exchange Server and PowerShell-related topics.
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Mike Pfeiffer is a Microsoft Certified Master with over 15 years of experience in the IT field. Today, Mike is an engineer at Microsoft where he helps customers deploy and maintain Microsoft Exchange and Lync Server solutions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mike was a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. You can find his writings online at mikepfeiffer.net, where he occasionally blogs about Exchange, Lync, and PowerShell-related topics.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Powershell Cookbook
By Mike Pfeiffer
As a long time server and Microsoft Exchange Server administrator, I fully believed and bought into the belief that "command-line" was the old way of doing things and graphical the only way to go. It certainly made my life easier and things easy to grasp and understand. So it was with deep trepidation that I met the news back in 2007 that Microsoft was turning its back on that line of thinking and going into command line interface with something called PowerShell.
At first glance and use, my feelings went from anxiety to despair. I could not make sense of it and worst of all, there was next to zero useful information about it. So much so that I seriously wondered how they were going to make it work in the real world if the only people who knew it were inside Microsoft itself. Ironically, I found myself working at Microsoft last year and I went into full panic mode. I needed to learn Powershell quickly or at least how to use it and be productive and while I paid for a few classes, bought a number of books and even videos, it remained a black art for me to this day. A big reason for it being that PowerShell FOR Exchange was even harder to understand for someone like me, coming from so many years of graphical interface. Still keen to understand it, I can say one does not *need* to know PowerShell to use Exchange 2010.... But it does make your life a whole lot easier!
After completing a migration to Exchange 2010 I needed to transfer knowledge quickly to the administrator and more importantly, spare her my anxiety over understanding PowerShell and embracing how it simplifies administration of Exchange 2010.... Read more ›
By Mike Pfeiffer
As a long time server and Microsoft Exchange Server administrator, I fully believed and bought into the belief that "command-line" was the old way of doing things and graphical the only way to go. It certainly made my life easier and things easy to grasp and understand. So it was with deep trepidation that I met the news back in 2007 that Microsoft was turning its back on that line of thinking and going into command line interface with something called PowerShell.
At first glance and use, my feelings went from anxiety to despair. I could not make sense of it and worst of all, there was next to zero useful information about it. So much so that I seriously wondered how they were going to make it work in the real world if the only people who knew it were inside Microsoft itself. Ironically, I found myself working at Microsoft last year and I went into full panic mode. I needed to learn Powershell quickly or at least how to use it and be productive and while I paid for a few classes, bought a number of books and even videos, it remained a black art for me to this day. A big reason for it being that PowerShell FOR Exchange was even harder to understand for someone like me, coming from so many years of graphical interface. Still keen to understand it, I can say one does not *need* to know PowerShell to use Exchange 2010.... But it does make your life a whole lot easier!
After completing a migration to Exchange 2010 I needed to transfer knowledge quickly to the administrator and more importantly, spare her my anxiety over understanding PowerShell and embracing how it simplifies administration of Exchange 2010.... Read more ›
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Lindsey
Format:Paperback
This book is great for admins who are just getting into PowerShell AND the admins who want to take automation to the next level. The advantage of this book is that there's a focus on Exchange and what can be done to leverage PowerShell and ultimately make your life easier as an admin. Highly recommended all admins with varying PowerShell/Scripting comfort levels; something for everyone to learn.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
"Quick Answers to common problems" - I have to agree.
A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the complexity as the book progresses.
Chapter 1 covers PowerShell Concepts - bearing in mind that this book is focused towards an IT Pro and not a developer, Mike does a superb job of explaining PowerShell to a non developer, without going into the complexities of coding methodologies.
Chapter 13 ends the book with coding for Exchange Web Services, a daunting subject which Mike breaks down and makes accessible, with loads of value in between, including managing High Availability, Monitoring, Mailboxes, Recipients, etc, etc.
This is the first Exchange 2010 PowerShell cookbook which I have come across, which lives up to it's promise, is full of real life experience and lives up to it's promise.
A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the complexity as the book progresses.
Chapter 1 covers PowerShell Concepts - bearing in mind that this book is focused towards an IT Pro and not a developer, Mike does a superb job of explaining PowerShell to a non developer, without going into the complexities of coding methodologies.
Chapter 13 ends the book with coding for Exchange Web Services, a daunting subject which Mike breaks down and makes accessible, with loads of value in between, including managing High Availability, Monitoring, Mailboxes, Recipients, etc, etc.
This is the first Exchange 2010 PowerShell cookbook which I have come across, which lives up to it's promise, is full of real life experience and lives up to it's promise.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By PV
Format:Paperback
I begun working with Powershell with Exchange 2007. By that time, the GUI didn't have all the options we have now. Powershell was the only way. I whish a had a book as complete as this one, with real life scripting guidance and so well explained. All you need to learn is here! 5 stars to it!
Writer is an expert in this matter and reviewers are also very skilled people.
This book covers from simple tasks to complex tasks using powershell and is a 'mind opener' for complex scripting. It even explains how to use Web Services, really nice.
Writer is an expert in this matter and reviewers are also very skilled people.
This book covers from simple tasks to complex tasks using powershell and is a 'mind opener' for complex scripting. It even explains how to use Web Services, really nice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would like to firstly mention that this book is obviously esoteric in that it deals with Exchange and Powershell. What it does very well is explain how to use those powershell cmdlets/scriping effectively without the reader having vast amounts of knowledge of Powershell itself. I am no budding Powershell expert, but i found the explanations of this book, clear, concise and to the point. As the book progresses the information becomes more involved and subject matter more extensive, but if you stick with it, you will be pleasantly surprised how much you skill sets start to evolve.
Some books are huge in content and therefore make you think about how you are going to approach certain subjects/or content (fo you dip into chapter 4, 5 etc). With this i would advise anyone to start at the beginning and not to skip, if they can. I have purchased books from PACKT PUBLISHING prior to this and i haven't been let down once in terms of how subject matters are put across to the reader. Hats off to the publisher and of course the Authors!
Some books are huge in content and therefore make you think about how you are going to approach certain subjects/or content (fo you dip into chapter 4, 5 etc). With this i would advise anyone to start at the beginning and not to skip, if they can. I have purchased books from PACKT PUBLISHING prior to this and i haven't been let down once in terms of how subject matters are put across to the reader. Hats off to the publisher and of course the Authors!
Format:Paperback
PowerShell is all about a more productive use of the system administrator's time. The book's size is an acknowledgement that Microsoft Exchange in its latest [greatest?] 2010 version, has grown into a monster. The complexity and variety of the topics that the sysadmin has to deal with in a large corporate or academic environment has led to this.
Readers who come from a unix background might recognise an overarching meta-pattern in the book. PowerShell is somewhat akin to the shell scripts that arose in the various unixes. Just like those decades of unix scripting, PowerShell lets you code intricate scripts that can get at the mailboxes and do innumerable things to them. One striking similarity with unix is that there are precious few screen captures of nice graphic user interfaces in this book. Instead, it is essentially all text based. The flavour of this book is not unlike a unix shell scripting text of 20 years ago or even of the Microsoft DOS shell scripts of that era. Because to solve some problems, any user interface is ultimately too confining. An unintentional irony that has perhaps escaped other reviewers, who have focused more on the details of PowerShell.
And what of these details? The PowerShell language, or at least the text's examples written in it, seem somewhat verbose. But the merit at least is that the names chosen have semantic self documenting value. A non-trivial consideration when many computer programs lack much explicit inline documentation. This is a very common trait amongst programmers, who just deprecate inline notes. The book does not address this explicitly. But if you are indeed going to code in PowerShell, you should adopt a style of coding similar to the book's.
Readers who come from a unix background might recognise an overarching meta-pattern in the book. PowerShell is somewhat akin to the shell scripts that arose in the various unixes. Just like those decades of unix scripting, PowerShell lets you code intricate scripts that can get at the mailboxes and do innumerable things to them. One striking similarity with unix is that there are precious few screen captures of nice graphic user interfaces in this book. Instead, it is essentially all text based. The flavour of this book is not unlike a unix shell scripting text of 20 years ago or even of the Microsoft DOS shell scripts of that era. Because to solve some problems, any user interface is ultimately too confining. An unintentional irony that has perhaps escaped other reviewers, who have focused more on the details of PowerShell.
And what of these details? The PowerShell language, or at least the text's examples written in it, seem somewhat verbose. But the merit at least is that the names chosen have semantic self documenting value. A non-trivial consideration when many computer programs lack much explicit inline documentation. This is a very common trait amongst programmers, who just deprecate inline notes. The book does not address this explicitly. But if you are indeed going to code in PowerShell, you should adopt a style of coding similar to the book's.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good book for learning to manage Exchange 2010 with PowerShell
Mike Pfeiffer is well known for his contributions to Microsoft Exchange community which has also earned him Microsoft MVP award. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Bhargav Shukla
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written comprehensive Exchange automation book
Good basis and background on powershell concepts, especially the help system which is one of the most important things to learn about powershell. Read more
Published 22 months ago by James
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everything you need to know about Exchange Powershell and more!
I picked up this book recently. I was looking for an easy to understand Exchange Powershell tutorial. This book is exactly what I was looking for. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Jeremy R. Whittaker
5.0 out of 5 stars
Automation is key
This is the only Exchange 2010 book for Powershell that you can find. The author goes very in-depth into automation for Exchange. Read more
Published 22 months ago by SysAdmin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Exchange 2010 PowerShell Resource
Serious Exchange administrators need to embrace and understand PowerShell to optimize their administrative tasks. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Joel
