How to: Managing Exchange 2000/2003 using PowerShell - Part I

posted by  johnb (85)  8 months ago (www.messagingtalk.org)

Most folks I talk to have installed Powershell, but not done much with it. Most of these folks also run Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 and don't dream of managing Exchange from anything else but the GUI or VBScript. Point in case, a lot of Exchange 2003 information is available via WMI. Powershell makes WMI information rapidly accessible via the Get-WMiObject, or it's alias gwmi. Aliases are a shortened version of a command and are interchangeable. Makes for quicker typing.

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