The mailbox jobs that take longest in a graphical console are often one line in PowerShell. This short, practical course shows the commands Exchange administrators use every week for reporting on mailboxes, moving them, backing up their content and keeping them under control.

What the lectures cover

Besides the main topics, you also work through: Restore deleted items from mailboxes.

How the course works

Each lecture takes one real task from start to finish: you see the problem, the PowerShell command that solves it, and the result on screen. The first lecture explains the PowerShell ideas used later, so you can follow even if you are still new to the Exchange Management Shell.

Inside the course

The course is organised into these sections: Managing Mailboxes. Lectures you will find include: PowerShell Key Concepts; Reporting on mailbox sizes; Reporting on the mailbox creation time; Working with move requests and performing mailbox moves; Importing and exporting mailboxes; Deleting messages from mailboxes using Search-Mailbox; Setting storage quotas for mailboxes; Restoring deleted items from mailboxes.

The course runs about 1.2 hours in 9 lectures. It is a focused course on mailbox tasks only, so it does not cover Exchange installation, databases or mail flow. Each lecture is one task, which makes it easy to come back to when you need it at work.