Writing a book always seems to take longer than you would expect, so having a dedicated and loving
support team at home is essential to any successful project.
Joezer Cookey - Gam in particular would also like to thank David Santamaria, Bill Long, Austin Audu
and Robert Zeigler, the phenomenal Exchange Escalation Engineers who allowed him to bounce off his
ideas, questions and solutions.
Lastly, we have to thank the Microsoft Exchange product team for not listening to the nay - sayers
(including some of us authors) and forging ahead with PowerShell as the management interface for
Exchange Server and providing amazingly detailed documentation to get us started.
Introduction
Windows PowerShell is a new command-line administration tool that is a giant step forward from
previous command-line tools. Often, each Microsoft product would develop separate tools for
command-line management, and each of these tools usually had a very narrow feature list and
varied command syntax. This would usually lead developers to have to use a variety of management
APIs to accomplish even the simplest tasks. PowerShell is meant to create a unified management tool
for all Microsoft products, and to simplify management.
The first major product to be released with Windows PowerShell as its management interface was
Exchange Server 2007, a complete rewrite of the familiar Exchange management tools using PowerShell
to provide all management functions.
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