Summary
Windows PowerShell can be used for a variety of monitoring, reporting, and administrative tasks. The
possibilities for what can be accomplished to reduce errors, increase productivity, and provide better
information about an Exchange organization is endless.
This chapter went into a little more detail on reading in files, command - line arguments, as well as
exporting data into files and email. You then went through a few real - world examples using these
techniques that you can use and adapt in your organization today. You now should have an
understanding of the main components needed to create your own scripts.
Using the . NET Framework to
Automate Exchange
PowerShell Tasks
In this chapter you ??™ ll see how to leverage Exchange PowerShell from within the .NET Framework
and how to make a basic web - based page to run PowerShell cmdlets. We also discuss some ideas
on what can be done to use .NET. This chapter involves some programming, so previous experience
would be helpful.
PowerShell is built on the .NET Framework, and the only management interface exposed for Exchange
Server 2007 is the PowerShell cmdlets, so running PowerShell from within something like C# or
VB.NET would be easy. Because this is the only interface that is exposed, the Exchange product team
uses the PowerShell cmdlets to provide the Exchange Management Console graphical management
tool.
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