Chapter 30. Using and Finding Scripts to Automate

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Using scripts to automate tasks in PowerShell

Finding scripts to automate tasks in PowerShell

In this chapter, you use some of the scripts that ship with Exchange Server 2010 and investigate how to find locations that have scripts that you can download and use for various purposes.

Using Scripts to Automate Tasks in PowerShell

PowerShell scripts are cmdlets that are “batched” together as lines of code written in the PowerShell scripting language, not unlike a .bat or .cmd file. These files have the .ps1 extension (yes, even in PowerShell 2.0, they still use the .ps1 extension), but they are executed by Windows ...

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