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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

You're reading from   Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update) Over 120 recipes to help you manage and administrate Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 with PowerShell 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785288074
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. PowerShell Key Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Exchange Management Shell Common Tasks 3. Managing Recipients 4. Managing Mailboxes 5. Distribution Groups and Address Lists 6. Mailbox Database Management 7. Managing Client Access 8. Managing Transport Servers 9. High Availability 10. Exchange Security 11. Compliance and Audit Logging 12. Scripting with the Exchange Web Services Managed API A. Common Shell Information B. Query Syntaxes Index

Using explicit credentials with PowerShell cmdlets

There are several PowerShell and Exchange Management Shell cmdlets that provide a credential parameter that allows you to use an alternate set of credentials when running a command. You may need to use alternate credentials when making manual remote shell connections, sending e-mail messages, working in cross-forest scenarios, and many more. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can create a credential object that can be used with commands that support the -Credential parameter.

How to do it...

To create a credential object, we can use the Get-Credential cmdlet. In this example, we store the credential object in a variable that can be used by the Get-Mailbox cmdlet:

$credential = Get-Credential
Get-Mailbox -Credential $credential

How it works...

When you run the Get-Credential cmdlet, you are presented with a Windows authentication dialog box requesting your username and password. In the previous example, we assigned the Get-Credential...

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