The Exchange Management Shell PowerShell gives you scripting capabilities that gives you more value out of your Exchange 2007 environments. The Exchange Management Shell provides a very rich cmdline experience for managing an Exchange server but can also serve as a portal that allows you to provide high levels of visibility to your Exchange environment as well as flexible management reports without the need for third party products. The EMS and PowerShell allow you to mine your configuration information to provide a deeper level of security auditing analysis for permission assignments and any number of other simple and complex everyday problems and issues. This session will look at some real world scenarios and how these problems can be addressed using the EMS to build scripts that combine different cmdlets and other scripting methods that will helps save money and man hours while enhancing visibility of your Exchange environment. As well it will look at how Exchange Web Services can be used by ITPro’s to access Mailbox content and do a variety of automated and value added functions. The main body of the presentation would be some demos of some higher level scripts and some details on how this was done. Also a lot of bite size tips on how to achieve a higher level of functionality and competency when using the EMS cmdlets in PowerShell scripts.
Glen Scales
Glen has been working with Exchange and other Messaging products for over 12 years in that time he has done everything from Admin, Operation, Architecture, Hosting to development. He has been an Exchange MVP for the past 6 years and constant contributor to the Exchange development community. He’s been writing articles on messaging for the past 8 years and continues to be one of the most innovative scripter through his post on his popular Exchange Dev Blog gsexdev.blogspot.com.