1. EX02: Exchange 2007 Management Jim McBee jmcbee@somorita.com http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com

2. Exchange 2007 Themes IT Pro Situation  E-mail is mission- critical  E-mail systems too complex/ expensive  Management tasks tedious, not automated Control Org-wide Situation  Security the top concern  Spam and viruses compromise the e-mail 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

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

4. Improvements to Exchange 2007 Management Interface

5. 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

6. 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

7. Demo: Working in Bulk with the Exchange Management Shell

8. 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. 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

10. Demo: The New EMC

11. Demo: Manipulating Mailboxes

12. EMS Cmdlet: What It Does get-mailbox -server LAServer | move-mailbox –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: move-mailbox –targetdatabase OaklandSG\OaklandMDB

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

14. Reporting

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

16. Demo: Reporting with the Exchange Management Shell

17. Reporting Demos  Get-user  get-eventlog -logname application -newest 25  get-mailbox -resultsize 99999  test-mapiconnectivity  Get-mailboxstatistics  get-mailboxstatistics | where {$_.displayname -notlike "System*"} | select displayname,totalitemsize,itemcount,storagelimitstatus | out-html | out-ie

18. 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

19. For more information  Visit TechNet at – http://www.microsoft.com/technet http://www.microsoft.com/technet  Visit the Exchange 2007 home page at – http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview/default.mspx  Vivek Sharma’s Blog – http://www.viveksharma.com/techlog/ http://www.viveksharma.com/techlog/

20. Questions?