EX02: Exchange 2007 Management Jim McBee

Exchange 2007 Themes IT Pro Situation  is mission- critical  systems too complex/ expensive  Management tasks tedious, not automated Control Org-wide Situation  Security the top concern  Spam and viruses compromise the experience  Regulatory compliance critical in many industries Built-In Protection Info Worker Situation AnywhereAccess  Users want easy access to all their communications  Mobile devices are increasingly common  Calendaring is frustrating

Management Challenges  Exchange delegation not flexible  Bulk operations difficult  Inconsistent provisioning methods  Scattered GUI / difficult to navigate  Lack of scripting options

Improvements to Exchange 2007 Management Interface

PowerShell / Monad Engine Exchange cmdlets Configuration Data Access AD Registry MetabaseMAPIStore Processboundary Early-bound objs WinForms ADO.Net PowerShell / Monad Data Provider WinForms CLI GUI Setup Exchange Server 2007 Management Architecture

Exchange Management Shell  Extensions to Windows PowerShell (“Monad”)  Fundamental implementation of the Management API  All management activities exposed  Reduced complexity  NET integration – Can make use of.NET classes and namespaces  Bulk actions – Consistent provisioning – Updating multiple objects  Security features  Better reporting

Demo: Working in Bulk with the Exchange Management Shell

Exchange Management Console  Goal: "Intuitive design"  Simplified navigation – Multiple panes – Object filtering – Discoverable tasks through Actions pane  Consistent user interface  Integrated toolbox – RTM tools – Web release tools – ADU&C is no longer used for recipient management

9 1.Console Tree: segmented into four work centers  Recipients  Servers  System  Toolbox 2.Result Pane: rich list of objects 3.Work Pane: child objects of result pane object, only used by Servers and System nodes 4.Action Pane: tasks for selected object(s) and node (work center) Improved Exchange Management Console

Demo: The New EMC

Demo: Manipulating Mailboxes

EMS Cmdlet: What It Does get-mailbox -server LAServer | mov box –targetdatabase OaklandSG\OaklandMDB  Get all mailboxes on the mailbox server named LAServer and pipe this list to the next command: get-mailbox -server LAServer |  Move each mailbox in this list to the OaklandMDB database in the OaklandSG storage group: mov box –targetdatabase OaklandSG\OaklandMDB

EMS Demos  get-mailbox -server LAServer | mov box -targetdatabase OaklandSG\OaklandMDB  Get-distributiongroupmember “Viper Pilots”  get-DistributionGroupMember "viper pilots" | set-mailbox - IssueWarningQuota:500MB  Get-distributiongroupmember "Viper Pilots" | get-mailbox | ft name,issuewarningquota

Reporting

Compliance Logging  Managed Folders summary reports  Expiration policy logs (optional)  AutoCopy log (optional)  Lifecycle summary information  Configuration logging – Logs of policy configuration – Logs of administration actions – Optional consolidation in MOM

Demo: Reporting with the Exchange Management Shell

Reporting Demos  Get-user  get-eventlog -logname application -newest 25  get-mailbox -resultsize  test-mapiconnectivity  Get-mailboxstatistics  get-mailboxstatistics | where {$_.displayname -notlike "System*"} | select displayname,totalitemsize,itemcount,storagelimitstatus | out-html | out-ie

Summary  Exchange Management Shell – Everything you can do in the GUI, you can do from the command line…and more! – Designed so that most common functionality can be done with a one-line command.  Exchange Management Console – Better organization – Action pane for task-oriented focus – One place to run all Exchange tools  Reporting and monitoring – Out of box – Roll your own with the Exchange Management Shell – MOM – Lots of compliance logging

For more information  Visit TechNet at –  Visit the Exchange 2007 home page at –  Vivek Sharma’s Blog –

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