Creating calendar items

Imagine that you have a monitoring script written in PowerShell that checks memory, CPU, or disk utilization on all of your Exchange servers. In addition to alerting your team of any critical problems via e-mail, it might also be nice to schedule a reminder in the future for non-critical 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 with just a few commands.

How to do it...

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 for the appointment:

   $appt.Subject = "Review Disk Space Utilization on Server(s)"...