PowerShell Set-ExchangeServer

Set-ExchangeServer For Exchange 2010

This PowerShell cmdlet is for changing Exchange Server 2010 attributes in Active Directory; for example, static global catalog or error reporting.

• Getting Started with Set-ExchangeServer
• List the Set-ExchangeServer Parameters
• Examples of Set-ExchangeServer in Action
• Checking with Get-ExchangeServer

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Getting Started with Set-ExchangeServer

Set-ExchangeServer is looking for the identity of a named server, you cannot change lots of servers without introducing a PowerShell loop construction.

Note 1: Set-ExchangeServer -Identity YourServer does not change anything unless you add a parameter such as StaticGlobalCatalogs.

Adding useful parameters

Note 2: If -Identity is the first parameter it can be ‘assumed’, and thus truncated to:

Set-ExchangeServer SrvExch -StaticGlobalCatalogs:$Null

List the Set-ExchangeServer Parameters

Let us employ PowerShell’s internal help to research more parameters:

PowerShell’s own help reveals parameters such as: StaticGlobalCatalogs, StaticDomainControllers, and ErrorReportingEnabled.

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Examples of Set-ExchangeServer in Action

In the scenario where you don’t want your Exchange Server to use a particular domain controller, you could issue this command from PowerShell

Example To Configure Exchange Server for AD and GCS

Here is a command to ‘wire-up’ an Exchange 2010 server to a specific domain controller and global catalog server using Set-ExchangeServer parameters.

Note 3: In real-life it is best to add multiple DC or GC servers thus providing resilience if one of the Active Directory servers is down.

Note 4: You can reverse these commands by using $Null, for example, StaticDomainControllers $Null.

Note 5: See more on PowerShell’s Set-ExchangeServer.

Example To Configure Exchange Server Error Reporting

Here is a PowerShell command to control whether, or not, you wish to enable Microsoft Event Reporting, and Automatic Error Reporting.

Note 6: You can reverse this command by using the $false.

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Checking with Get-ExchangeServer

Try before and after experiments with Get-ExchangeServer, please note the -Status switch for real-time data.

Summary of Set-ExchangeServer

This PowerShell cmdlet is for changing Exchange Server 2010 attributes in Active Directory; for example, static global catalog or error reporting.  Set-ExchangeServer does nothing unless you add a parameter such as StaticGlobalCatalogs.

See more PowerShell Cmdlets for Exchange 2010:

• Exchange 2010 Home   • Enable-Mailbox   • Disable-Mailbox   • New-Mailbox   • Set-Mailbox

• Get-Mailbox   • Get-MailboxStatistics   • Connect-Mailbox   • Export-Mailbox   • Import-Mailbox

• Exchange 2010 PowerShell commands   • Get-ExchangeServer   • Get-MailboxDatabase

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