Microsoft Exchange Server Complete Course

Learn to create, modify, and remove mailboxes using the Exchange management shell in PowerShell, including new mailbox, enable mailbox, set mailbox, and remove mailbox.

Explore managing mail contacts and mail-enabled users with the exchange management shell, including creating with an external email address, enabling, updating attributes, and removing contacts in Active Directory.

Manage resource mailboxes in Exchange with the Exchange Management Shell to create room and equipment mailboxes, set calendar processing via the resource booking attendant, and configure delegates for approvals.

Bulk provision mailboxes and recipients in Exchange using CSV files, Import-Csv, and foreach to create mailboxes with name, alias, UPN, and organizational unit, including password options and group membership.

Configure mail tips in Exchange to show info bars for large distribution lists and out-of-office scenarios, enabling organization-wide or mailbox-specific customization via set and get commands.

Learn to use recipient filters to create dynamic distribution groups and address lists based on department or office, with server-side filtering in the exchange management shell.

Learn to add and remove email addresses for Exchange 2016 recipients, including mailboxes, distribution groups, contacts, and public folders, using hash table syntax with add and remove keys.

Learn to generate mailbox reports and perform bulk mailbox tasks using Exchange Management Shell and PowerShell, including exporting sizes to CSV and sorting by total item size.

Use the exchange management shell to report mailboxes created in a time frame. Compute dates with get-date and add-days, filter by when mailbox created, and export results to csv.

Learn to manage move requests and move mailboxes between databases using the Exchange management shell. Monitor progress with move request statistics from the mailbox replication service.

Master creating, modifying, and removing mailboxes in Exchange Server 2016 via PowerShell, with new, enable, set, disable, remove, and bulk mailbox operations and quota controls.

Automate mailbox import and export in Exchange 2010 using server-side requests, assign the role, run New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest with a UNC share.

Delete messages from mailboxes with the search-mailbox cmdlet in the Microsoft Exchange Server Complete Course, mastering role assignments, search queries, and bulk cleanup.

Configure per mailbox storage quotas in the Exchange management shell by setting warning, prohibit send, and prohibit send/receive limits, using false for database quota defaults, and perform bulk updates.

Learn how to restore deleted items from user mailboxes using single item recovery and the search mailbox command in the Exchange management shell, including dumpster searches and query language (KQL).

Learn to generate a distribution group membership report with the Exchange Management Shell by combining get distribution group and get distribution group member, and export to CSV.

Learn to bulk add members to a distribution group using PowerShell Core by importing recipients from text or CSV files with Get-Content or Import-Csv and Add-DistributionGroupMember.

Configure Exchange 2016 RBAC to let managers modify distribution group memberships via the my distribution groups management role assigned to the default role assignment policy and the managed by property.

Learn to remove disabled Active Directory users from all distribution groups using the Exchange Management Shell, with a for each loop and a CSV export for reporting.

Configure distribution group naming policies in exchange using the exchange management shell with set organization config distribution group name and policy, applying prefixes, blocked words, and attribute-based naming rules.

Configure distribution groups to let users join or leave with owner approval. Use set distribution group commands to set member join and departure restrictions, open or closed.

Create address lists for users, contacts, and other mail-enabled objects with the Exchange Management Shell using the new address list command and recipient filters, then update them as needed.

Export address list memberships to CSV, capturing display names and databases; concatenate SMTP addresses with a calculated property, applicable to all users, GAL, and distribution group members.

Master the most used distribution group commands in Exchange, including creating groups with naming conventions, importing from CSV, setting display name and SMTP address, and managing membership and visibility.

Explore how to manage Exchange mailbox databases using the Exchange Management Shell, covering creating, mounting, renaming, excluding from provisioning, and removing databases, plus automatic distribution and bulk creation.

Move databases and their log streams to a new location with the exchange management shell, which dismounts and remounts the databases and updates paths using confirm and for switch parameters.

Configure mailbox database storage limits and retention with set mailbox database, applying issue warning quota, prohibit sent quota, deleted item retention, and bulk updates.

Verify mailbox database sizes with the exchange management shell using get mailbox database status and export to csv. Convert sizes to megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes using the size object's methods.

Discover how to retrieve the total number of mailboxes in a database with PowerShell, using get mailbox database, measure object, and calculated properties to create a focused report.

Learn how to calculate the average mailbox size per database using PowerShell, querying mailbox statistics from the exchange management shell, converting sizes to kilobytes, and using the measure object.

Learn to create a database availability group using the New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet, configure a file share witness for an IP-less DAG, and manage membership and settings via PowerShell or GUI.

Learn how to add mailbox servers to a database availability group with the exchange management shell, covering prerequisites, CNO creation, and automation using Get and Add commands.

Use the Exchange management shell to view, configure, and manage database availability group networks discovered automatically, adjust replication settings, and apply encryption and compression for log shipping and seeding.

Add mailbox database copies to a database availability group with the add mailbox database copy command, set activation preferences, and monitor status; automate creation and mounting with PowerShell.

Learn to perform a database switchover by moving active mailbox databases to another server with the Exchange management shell, activating passive copies, and using mount dial override and health checks.