Chapter 2. Learning Recipient Management

Prior to the release of Exchange Server 2007, recipient management tasks were performed using Active Directory Users and computers, and there was no easy way to do bulk management and automation and scripting support was limited.

The release of Exchange Server 2007 introduced the Exchange management shell as a management tool, which was built at the top of Windows PowerShell. There was also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool called the Exchange management console. The later versions of Exchange such as Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 and 2016 are built on this foundation. All the management tasks in starting Exchange 2007 and later can be performed using the Exchange management shell where a subset of management tasks can be performed by its GUI counterpart. The Exchange management console (EMC), which was released with Exchange 2007 and 2010, has been deprecated and an HTML-based GUI tool called Exchange Admin Center (EAC) has been introduced in Exchange 2013/2016 due to some known issues with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) based tool in the earlier releases.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Managing users
• Managing folder/calendar permissions
• Managing permissions
• Managing room mailboxes
• Import and export of objects
• Connecting from remote computers
• Mailbox reporting
• Automation with scripting agents
• Writing a basic script