The Exchange Management Shell

Figure 1-1 shows the Exchange Management Shell (or “Shell” as some call it), which is a management interface for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. It is built on top of Windows PowerShell 2.0 and provides a command-line interface for Exchange Server. In the figure, the Get-ExchangeServer cmdlet has been executed and has been directed to display the output in a list format showing the server’s fully qualified domain name (FQDN), as well as the Exchange roles installed on the server.

Figure 1-1. The Exchange Management Shell

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