Damian Scoles - Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2019

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020934650

ISBN: 978-1-7340889-5-3

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Technical Reviewers: Dave Stork & Jaap Wesselius

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A UTHOR

D AMIAN S COLES

Damian Scoles has been a Microsoft MVP for the past seven years, specifically for Office Apps and Services and now Cloud and Datacenter Management. He is currently based out of the Chicago area and started out managing Exchange 5.5 and Windows NT. He has worked with Office 365 since BPOS and has experience with Azure AD, the Security and Compliance Center, and Exchange Online. Contributions to the community include helping on TechNet forums, creating PowerShell scripts that are located in the TechNet Gallery, writing detailed PowerShell / Office365 / Exchange blog articles ( https://www.powershellgeek.com/ ), tweets ( https://twitter.com/PPowerShell ) and creating PowerShell videos on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClxHtLF0c_VAkjw5rzsV1Vg ). As a third time author, Damian has poured his knowledge of the Security and Compliance Center as well as PowerShell into this book. He hopes you will enjoy reading it as much as he did writing it.

T ECHNICAL R EVIEWER

D AVE S TORK

Dave Stork is an Exchange/Office Apps and Services MVP since 2014. But long ago he started his Exchange career with Exchange 2003 and that version got him hooked. He is currently a Senior Technical Specialist and consultant at OGD ict-diensten, specialized in Exchange and Office 365.

He blogs () about Exchange and other relevant topics for several years now and in time has expanded this community work with contributing to podcasts, speaking at several events and user group meetings in and outside his native Netherlands. He poured most of his knowledge and experience into the Practical PowerShell Exchange Server 2016 book and reviewed the Practical PowerShell Exchange Online book.

Jaap Wesselius

Jaap Wesselius is a messaging consultant since the early days of Exchange. After working for Microsoft for 10 years he became an independent consultant in 2006 focusing on Microsoft Exchange. In 2007 Jaap became an MVP (Exchange server in those days) and in 2020 Jaap is still an MVP but now in Office Apps and Services. His consulting work has shifted from Exchange via Exchange Online to Office 365, including security and Identity Management, but still an independent consultant.

Jaap blogs on https://jaapwesselius.com , but rarely tweets ( https://twitter.com/jaapwess ), not only on Exchange but about everything thats relevant and interesting. Besides Exchange, motorcycles also play an important role in his life and so do his wife and three sons (which are constantly giving him a hard time, or at least they try to).

Being asked to write a foreword for a book is an honor. Being asked to write a second, for an updated version of a book is both flattering, yet somewhat scary.

Its flattering as clearly those involved felt what I wrote last time was good enough that they want more. (Lets assume for a moment its not desperation on their part, Jeffrey Snover said no for example). Its also scary because now I have to come up with something new and interesting to write about.

Fortunately, the world of technology we work and live in is ever changing and theres always something new to learn, or to write about, or go out and talk about and if you arent exhausted by all the change, to get excited about.

In just the last couple of years we have seen the mainstreaming of AI and Machine Learning, weve seen devices get faster, smaller and smarter, weve seen the cloud continue to grow at an astonishing pace, and still weve seen another version of Exchange Server. Why? Theres demand for it. There are also a lot, and I mean a lot, of deployments out there.

There are some constants though. And PowerShell seems to be one of those. Its evolved of course, but the same basic principles still apply you type something, you get something back, you do something else with it, you sit back smugly, you repeat that process over and over. You are a master of the command line. Your powers are unquestionable.

Unless you do it wrong. When you do it wrong you type stuff, but you dont get something back. Well, you do, but its probably red, and it wasnt what you had hoped for. You get annoyed. You cant do what you wanted to with what you got back. And whatever you wanted to do doesnt work nearly as well as youd hoped and so you dont sit back smug. You sit back feeling sad. And maybe you despair. You cry a little. Its ok, admit it. And then your dog wanders off from under the desk where she normally likes to sit. And then kids start fighting. It turns out you dont rule after all.

Dont ask how I know this.

Luckily though for you (and for me), there are talented writers, teachers and authors like Damian writing books like this to help you. With the release of Exchange Server 2019 some things have changed, for example the way you configure the server, the OS it runs upon, the way you secure it and more. So how do you know what has changed and discover how to take control Exchange Server 2019? Step number 1, is you buy this book, thats how.

Damian goes into detail way beyond the basics (though they are all there too of course), he gets into specifics and provides many real-world examples showing how things should be done but whats really a bonus is many of these skills you learn will be very broadly applicable outside of the world of Exchange. This book provides a PowerShell masterclass, not just an Exchange PowerShell masterclass.

Im not saying you wont make mistakes. Mistakes are after all an undisputed necessity of learning anything, but within these pages you will learn new tricks, tips and techniques which, if correctly applied, will lead you back to the happy place you once knew and deserve to be in.

So essentially what I think Im saying is that this book can stop your children from fighting with each other, make your dog look at you with love in those big brown eyes and make you hero amongst your PowerShell peers. And learn about Exchange too.

Its time to turn to chapter 1, hero in the making. Good luck, dont worry, youre in good hands.