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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook Powerful recipes to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787126930

Length 648 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Exchange Server

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (4):

Nuno Mota

Nuno Filipe M Mota

Mike Pfeiffer

Andersson

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. PowerShell Key Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks

3. Managing Recipients

4. Managing Mailboxes

5. Distribution Groups and Address Lists

6. Mailbox Database Management

7. Managing Client Access

8. Managing Transport Servers

9. Exchange Security

10. Compliance and Audit Logging

11. High Availability

12. Monitoring Exchange Health

13. Integration

14. Scripting with the Exchange Web Services Managed API

15. Common Shell Information

16. Query Syntaxes

Monitoring the disk space

It goes without saying that having enough disk free space is crucial for Exchange to function correctly. When a disk that is hosting one or more mailbox databases runs out of space, these databases get automatically dismounted and you will not be able to mount them until there is enough disk space, which can turn out to be another problem on its own.

In this recipe, you will learn how to easily check how much free space a database has using the shell.

How to do it...

To check how much free space a database copy (active or passive) has on a particular server, use the following cmdlet:

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus "DB01\TLEX1" | Select DiskTotalSpace, DiskFreeSpace, DiskFreeSpacePercent

How it works...

In Exchange 2010 and previous versions, programmatically checking the available space on a disk holding an Exchange database is not straightforward even when using WMI. In Exchange 2013 and 2016, this is much easier. Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus provides a myriad of information...

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Authors (4)

Nuno Mota

Nuno Mota

Nuno Mota is a Senior Microsoft Messaging Consultant currently working for a large sovereign wealth fund. He has been responsible for designing and deploying Exchange and Office 365 solutions for organizations across the UK. He also shares a passion for Skype for Business, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Besides writing his personal Exchange blog, called LetsExchange, he is also an author on the MSExchange website with dozens of published articles and product reviews as well as multiple scripts on TechNet. He has also been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Exchange five times since 2012.

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Nuno Filipe M Mota

Nuno Filipe M Mota

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Mike Pfeiffer

Mike Pfeiffer

Mike Pfeiffer is a 20-year IT industry veteran, published author, and international conference speaker. He's a former architect for Amazon Web Services and engineer for Microsoft. Today, Pfeiffer serves as chief technologist for CloudSkills, a cloud computing training and consulting firm.

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Andersson

Andersson

Jonas Andersson is devoted to constantly developing himself and his skills. He started out in the IT business in 2004 and initially worked in a support center, where he acquired a basic knowledge of the industry. In 2007, he started his career as a Microsoft Infrastructure consultant, and from 2008 onwards his focus has been on Unified Communication. At the start of 2010, he was employed at a large outsourcing company as a messaging specialist, specializing in Microsoft Exchange. His work included designing, implementing, and developing messaging solutions for enterprise customers. In 2014, he joined Microsoft Consulting Services, and from then onward his main focus has been Office 365. His role was of a deployment consultant with Microsoft's Office 365 Global Practice EMEA team. In 2016, he started to work for Swedens largest retail companies with a known brand as a Product Specialist for Office 365, mostly focusing on Skype for Business Online but also on the other workloads. As a reward for his work in the community, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the Microsoft Exchange Server product in 2014.

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