GSX Webinar PowerShell Cmdlets Automation

Jean-Francois Piot

VP Product Management at GSX Solutions

Olivier Raynaut

Microsoft Specialist at GSX Solutions

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GSX Solutions at a glance

Created in 1996

Headquarter in Switzerland

Offices in the USA, UK and France

Specialized in Messaging and Collaboration

Environment supervision

Introduction

Starting with PowerShell: Must Have Knowledge

How to use PowerShell?

Get Information and configure your environment with

PowerShell

Monitor and troubleshoot your environment

Report on usage of your environment

Problem with the use of PowerShell

How GSX Monitor and Analyzer can help you ?


Designed as a new approach to command line

management, released in 2006

Built upon the .Net framework

Use cmdlets for management, queries and tasks

Able to combine cmdlets to perform more complex tasks

Able to ‘Pipe’ output from one cmdlet to the input of

another

Can be used to manage servers and applications remotely


Pre-installed on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

but can be added to previous versions by downloading

and installing the Windows Management Framework

Snappin

Cmdlet to find his way:

Syntax: “verb-resource”

New

Get

Remove

Set


Cmdlet:

There are only two cmdlets you need to know:

– Get-Help

– Get-Command

For all the common cmdlets there are aliases that allow you to call them:

– Get-Help

• man

• help

• Get-Command • gcm

Advice: Parameters for Get-Help:

- full: full help

- online: TechNet article on the cmdlets.


Two Ways:

Exchange Management Shell

Easiest way to start with

Launch : « Exchange Management Shell »

Remote PowerShell

Creating a PSSession: $session = New-PSSession –computerName

<fqdn of machine> -credential Get-Credential –authentication

Kerberos

Connecting to Exchange directly: $session = New-PSSession -

credential Get-Credential –authentication Kerberos –connectionURI

http://<FQDN of Exc server>/PowerShell –configurationName

Microsoft.Exchange


First actions:

Import the session:

Import-PSSession $session

Enter the session

Enter-PSSession $session

Invoke commands on the remote computer

Invoke-Command { any cmdlet here} –session $session


Get Exchange Server

Retrieve all the server of the current organization with name, site, roles,

version, AD server, etc.

Get Mailbox

Retrieve attributes and object for a mailbox

Get ActiveSyncDevice

Retrieve the list of devices with identification, configurations, status

information

Get PublicFolderDatabase

Return specific database properties (including backup and mount status

information)

Get MailboxDatabase

Retrieve one or more Mailbox Database objects


Autodiscover Test

Test-OutlookWebservices

Mailbox Servers

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus

Test-MapiConnectivity

Hub Transport

Get-Queue

Client Access Servers

Test-OwaConnectivity

Test-PopConnectivity

Test-ImapConnectivity

Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity


Test OWAConnectivity

Definition

Test All Microsoft Exchange virtual directories

Real Test

Test ActiveSync Connectivity

Definition

Makes a real synchronization and a Direct Push test

Real Test


Get-Mailbox

Definition: retrieve attributes and objects for mailbox

Test

Get-MailboxStatistics

Definition: Obtain information about mailbox (size, number of

messages, last time accessed, etc…)

Test

Get-LogonStatistics

Definition: Retrieve logon information about current active sessions

Test


Maintainability

Automate and alert

Store the information

Trend availability and usage statistics



Scanning engine: where to automate tests?

Alert system: how to be alerted?

Mailbox, CAS, Hub, CAS Array, DAG PowerShell tests

PowerShell autodiscovery of the environment

End-to-End tests

Storing Statistics

Trending PowerShell statistics


GSX automates the PowerShell tests

GSX automates the alert system

GSX calculates and reports on the availability on each role

Mailbox, CAS, Hub, CAS Array, DAG with PowerShell tests

GSX draws the PowerShell autodiscovery of the environment

GSX adds others End-to-End tests such as Mail Routing

GSX enables the storage of PowerShell statistics for

troubleshoot and trending capacity


GSX Solutions

North America

Buffalo, USA

+1 310 765 4139

[email protected]

GSX Solutions

Headquarters

Geneva, Switzerland

+41 22 735 82 40

[email protected]

@GSX_Solutions

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