PowerShell – Exchange 2007 Nouns
The best thing you can do to script Exchange 2007 with PowerShell is to get the QAD snap-In. Meanwhile, here is a list of the main nouns for manipulating Exchange 2007 via Microsoft’s PowerShell command shell.
To investigate try Get-Help m* where ‘m’ is the first letter of the command that you are researching. * is the usual wildcard. I have discovered that exchange specific commands begin with a uppercase e.g. Get-Mailbox (Upper ‘G’ and ‘M’) but Get-Eventlog (lower case ‘g’ and ‘e’)
| Noun | Switches |
|---|---|
| Mailbox and MailboxStatistics | -server |
| MailboxDatabase | -storagegroup |
| Mailcontact | -identity guyt |
| User and MailUser | -identity |
| Contact | -OrganizationalUnit managers |
| Group and DistributionGroup | |
| StorageGroup | |
| Message | |
| Queue | Also Freeze-Queue |
| ExchangeServer | -domain |
| Recipient | -resultsize 50 |
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