Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration: For Exchange On-Premises and Office 365

Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration is your one-stop resource for both basic and advanced administration of Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 and Exchange Online, Microsoft's best-selling hosted Exchange service.

The industry shift that is currently happening toward ‘the cloud’ is not just about hosting your applications somewhere else. It’s also driving automation and standardization of technical solutions, which in turn is leading to greater productivity. Embracing PowerShell will help you administer your existing environment more efficiently and also teach you valuable ‘cloud-ready’ skills as well. This book is your best-in-class companion for gaining a deep, thorough understanding of managing all facets of Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 with PowerShell.

Authors Michel de Rooij and Jaap Wesselius, both Microsoft messaging MVPs, take you through tips, tricks, and little known facts that will make your administration life simpler and more effective. Along with revealing what’s new in Exchange Server 2013, this well-paced, deeply engaging tutorial provides detailed deployment guidance, for upgraders and migrators as well as for organizations entirely new to the Exchange platform. The book details how all of the major Exchange components fit together, from SMTP messages to all kinds of clients. It also provides in-depth configuration examples with an eye toward creating scalable, reliable, and secure installations. Additionally, this guide covers the tools and techniques for monitoring an Exchange environment and troubleshooting when things go wrong.

Discover how to automate time consuming management tasks, configure a Hybrid environment with an on-premises Exchange deployment, and more today with Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration.

• Teaches you the basics of PowerShell and provides a foundation for more advanced scripting
• Deploy an Office 365 tenant in hybrid mode with your existing Exchange servers
• Learn how to manage Exchange Online with Remote PowerShell

What you’ll learn

• Learn how to install Exchange Server fresh or upgrade from a previous version
• Get a comprehensive understanding of Exchange, with thorough coverage of Mailbox server and Client Access server as well as the returning Edge Transport Server in Service Pack 1
• Understand the tools and techniques for configuring and managing your Exchange deployment to ensure scalability, reliability, efficiency and security
• Learn how to monitor your deployment and prepare for any problems and how to troubleshoot any problems that do arise
• A comprehensive set of best practices for administering Exchange Server 2013 on a daily basis
• A thorough understanding of new features
• How to design and deploy new Exchange 2013 servers and upgrade existing Exchange servers to Exchange 2013
• Learn best practices for high availability and disaster recovery
• Understand the differences and similarities between Exchange on-premises and Exchange Online

About the Authors

Jaap Wesselius is an independent consultant based in The Netherlands, focusing on Microsoft Unified Communications solutions, and in particular, Exchange Server, Lync Server, and Office 365. Jaap is also involved with private cloud solutions, especially Windows Azure Services and, to a lesser extent, VMWare.

Jaap learned Unified Communications, including Microsoft Exchange Server, in his years at Microsoft. He worked at Microsoft from 1997 to 2006, both in support as a Technical Account Manager and in MCS as an Infrastructure Consultant.

Besides work, Jaap spends a lot of time in the Exchange community, such as with the Dutch UC User Group and the Dutch Network User Group NGN. He is a frequent blogger on his own site jaapwesselius.com, but you can also find an extensive selection of his articles on Simple-Talk (simple-talk.com). And if that's not enough, Jaap is a regular speaker at major events like Microsoft TechEd, the Microsoft Exchange Conference, the Quest Experts Conference, and the IT/Dev Connections conferences. For his work in the community, Jaap was awarded with the Exchange Server MVP award in 2007, an award that he has held annually ever since.

Michel de Rooij is a consultant at Conclusion FIT, an IT company from The Netherlands offering a wide range of IT services. His primary focus is on helping customers with their Exchange or Office 365 related challenges, but it may also touch on similar technologies like Active Directory or Lync.

Michel started his professional career as a developer in the mid-90s, but quickly switched to working on infrastructure-related projects, such as office automation and desktop/server migration projects. In 2004, he got a chance to do dedicated work on Exchange and related technologies for a large multinational, and since then Exchange has become his main specialization. He finds the heritage of being a former developer a great asset for dealing with all PowerShell-enabled products.

Michel is also very active in the Exchange communities, like TechNet or the Dutch Network User Group NGN. He authors articles for his own Exchange blog eightwone.com, and TechTarget (searchexchange.techtarget.com). He is also guest author for companies like ISV ENow Software (enowsoftware.com) and is active on Twitter at @mderooij.

Apart from speaking at local events and co presenting a PowerShell for Exchange admins session at Exchange Connections in 2014, he is a contributor to The UC Architects (theucarchitects.com), a bi-weekly community podcast by people with a passion for Unified Communications, focused on Exchange, Lync, and related topics. For his community work, Michel was awarded the Exchange Server MVP award in 2013 and again in 2014.