Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

by Joezer Cookey-Gam (Author), Brendan Keane (Author), Jeffrey Rosen (Author), Jonathan Runyon (Author), Joel Stidley (Author)
Key Phrases: edge transport, first storage group, send connector, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Exchange Management Shell (more...)

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Product Description
Dramatically improve your implementation and administration of Exchange Server 2007 with the PowerShell tips contained in Professional Windows® PowerShellTM for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. Discover the ins and outs of PowerShell, including how to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain your Exchange environment. Explore Windows PowerShell and the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell and learn how to work with the new Exchange server roles, cmdlets and features specific to these roles. Learn quickly from the numerous, easy-to-follow examples and apply the information to enhance your Exchange experience.

From the Back Cover
Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

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

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

• Methods for working with Exchange User and Group Objects

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

• Best practices for utilizing PowerShell in a production environment

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

• 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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 521 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; Pap/Onl edition (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470226447
• ISBN-13: 978-0470226445
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,093 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exchange 2007 Command Shell - It's about time, January 19, 2008

By	Mark S. Myers "PC Load-Letter?" (Oswego, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's about time this book was written and published. If you own one or more of the half-dozen E2k7 books that have been written and published in the past year, you have just one more to pick up - this one. This book is written to be exactly what E2k7 administrators need after their initial installation of Exchange. Nearly all E2k7 books focus on the management of E2k7 but primarily from the Exchange Management Console perspective. (Actually, a book that does a very good job on command shell topics is the "Mastering Exchange Server 2007" book by Gerber and McBee. It's very good.)

Also covered in the book are topics of Troubleshooting, SCC and CR high-availability shell strategies. These three topics alone are worth the price of the book - to have all the PowerShell cmdlets in one place is truly convenient.

If you are looking for a excellent book on Exchange Command Shell from A to Z - and NOT generic Powershell coverage and Exchange-absent ramblings - then pick this book up. It's a resource for us messaging consultants and admins. who don't want to be Powershell gurus - just real good at Exchange Command Shell.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars May be good for day to day admin work...., July 1, 2008

By	C. Maddox - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

But they left out a big section regarding migrations. Having just completed migrating 2000 mailboxes, I found this book to be rather useless in that task. It may be good for day to day admin, and it may be good at creating 1000 mailboxes automatically, but it had little to no information on scripts and recommendations for automating a migration.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PowerShell for E2K7 SP1, April 6, 2008

By	shiv "shiv" (Germany) - See all my reviews

This is a good book for Exchange Administrators. i have quite a few E2K7 books including the MS Press E2K7 Admin Companion and some of the earlier PowerShell books to include MONAD. this is a very easy read/reference book that gives you solid examples of how to use PowerShell. what i would have liked was a comprehensive listing of ALL options and a good reference is technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124413%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx it breaks down cmdlets by role so you can choose exactly what you want with specifics.
Bottom line, good book for both novices and experts.