Creating calendar items

Imagine that you have a monitoring script written in PowerShell that checks the memory, CPU, or disk utilization on all of your Exchange servers. In addition to alerting your team to any critical problems via e-mail, it might also be nice to schedule a reminder in the future for noncritical issues by creating a calendar item in one or more mailboxes. The EWS Managed API makes it easy to create a calendar item through PowerShell using just a few commands.

How to do it...

Let's see how to create calendar items using the following steps:

1. First, load the assembly, create the ExchangeService object, and connect to EWS:

   Add-Type -Path C:\EWS\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll
   $svc = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
   $svc.AutoDiscoverUrl("[e-mail]")
   

2. Next, create a new appointment object:

   $appt = New-Object -TypeName '
   Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Appointment '
   -ArgumentList $svc
   

3. Fill out the subject and body...